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Originally Posted by dmbfd15
I have never been great at making a large number of friends. For a myriad of reasons. And it’s starting to affect my job.
I was tasked with leading a group of trainers that are in place to train our new workforce. Three times the training group got together, changed plans and then did not even mention the changes to me. Which is reflection on me and my trainees.
I’m a people pleaser and genuinely try to connect with my peers but I just always feel left out at the end of the day. Sad. Frustrating. And a straight up failure of leadership.
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If you're just socially awkward or quiet, they sound like assholes.
My work buddy and I host an off-the-books unofficial monthly happy hour after work on a Friday. We make a point to stop by and personally invite shy/awkward/quiet people, even though it's already on their calendar if they want to go.
The only people who are not invited are upper management and narcs. I have gotten lit with directors and executives, but a lot of the staff wouldn't be comfortable letting loose around them. So they don't get invited. And they get that.*
Narcs are the kind of gossipy shit heads that will run to the aforementioned upper management and talk about how lit so and so got.
Point being, if they're just ditching you because you're a little weird, they suck shit.
*Except the boss's daughter. She tried to get it shut down because she isn't invited. So she's upper management and a fucking narc. Thankfully HR told her to kick rocks and they weren't going to make the staff play with her when we're off the clock.