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Shyness In Work Is Enough To Drive You Out 1 comment
I’ve been unemployed for an absolute age, which isn’t so bad as starting a new job is about as appealing as being kicked in the face by a horse to me. Whenever I’ve started in previous jobs, I’ve always encountered the same awkward silences and phony conversations as I’ve got to know my new colleagues. Why can’t people be straight with each other and just admit that they don’t want to talk to each other? It would make our lives so much easier.
We shouldn’t have to talk to anyone we don’t want to. That should be the golden rule in our society. We’re basically taught to be social lepers from kindergarten onwards!
So I’ve sworn never to get another job, unless it’s something solitary like working in a mortuary. Even then I’d probably be too shy to approach the dead. Christ I suck so much 