Quote: (05-13-2014 03:50 PM)cardguy Wrote:
Women at work are amazing.
This is how bitchy they are.
Pick a chick you work with and go and talk to her about whichever chick she gets on best with at work.
Realized I'm duping a lot of Kosco's great post, but it's a little bit of a variant.
DON'T do this stirring up stuff. It may be amusing for Cardguy to think about it from the outside, but is bad strategy-- you'd be stirring up shit and deserve some kind of trouble.
"All warfare is based on deception" -- Sun Tzu
Never say anything bad about ANYBODY unless it's a last ditch situation where it's self defense and you're trying to keep from getting fired.
And I second the advice above about being as innocuous as possible. NEVER mention game, NEVER mention travel. I act like sex and romance don't even exist, because in an office full of tattooed, loud-mouthed smirkers, for me it doesn't. There are a LOT of herbivores who really aren't interested in sex, or are able to act like it, and you want to be seen as one of those if you don't want to be actively hated.
In one previous job they would have these round robin things where they wanted you to talk about yourself.
I just said I like riding my bicycle, and that I'm really boring. I think I might have added I liked watching movies.
As stated above, they could sense I was hiding something, but they're really too busy gossiping and thinking about their cats to really put much thought into you if you blend into the background.
They're not your friends. You are not their teacher. You just happen to work in the same locale.
Since I'm in my 50s, I have 4.5 30-something whales with disgusting pasty skin flirting with me, thinking I'll be easy cause I'm old and desperate. Little do they know I was fucking slim 22 year-old in the Phils a month ago.
I can see they resent me because I pretty much completely ignore them unless I have a work related question. So I keep things calm by being overly gracious, so it's VERY obvious no one could accuse me of being rude.
"Please, thanks, nice of you to help", always add some extra sweetener to distract them from the fact you would never, ever fuck them as long as the Philippines exists.
Also, they are always loudly bleating gossip, and I got permission to wear earbuds which helps a lot to shut them out.
Even women BORN with decent innate personality circuitry in the USA are molded into entitled sleeper harpies waiting to pounce if you spout anything good about males or travel to countries with "exploited" women. I can sense some of these women would have turned out fine had they grown up in the 40s or 50s.
But they were told again and again to be abrasive, pushy, derisive towards men, and are sort of waiting for a chance to express that.