I’m so tired of the small talk.
I (M27) do not need to be at work. I can do everything from home on my laptop. Instead, I’m required to be here from 7am-7pm 4 days a week. I rather be at home, obviously, but I honestly don’t mind being here. The commute is my much needed alone time.
What bothers me is the constant “conversation rut” I feel like I’m in. I hear the same thing from the same people every single day and I cannot take it anymore.
Yes I’m drinking coffee. Yes I’m aware of the weather. Yes I saw that email. I don’t care about your house renovation, I don’t care what you had for dinner. The same jokes over and over again; these 40-60 year olds think they’re hilarious repeating the same things they said yesterday.
Somebody stood over my desk for 20 mins while I was eating a salad telling me about a bar he used to go to 30 years ago that sold pickled eggs. Why? I’m clearly not interested. You are not interesting.
I don’t microwave anything at work anymore. Any time that final beep goes off, the vultures at work feel the need to come hover and ask “what the wife made” and if “I plan on sharing.”
I try to be respectful but it’s exhausting.
Netizens’ comments
- I hate it when people talk to me while I’m trying to eat. If we aren’t on a date or family, leave me alone while I eat.
- I used to have coworkers do the same thing, so I started to talk back about the things I was interested in.
- I had a coworker talk about painting his room for the entirety of our 1 hour lunch break, then when we went back to the office, he continued talking about painting his room beside my table as I was rushing to finish readying my presentation slides. It just feels like he’s talking to himself lol
- A lot of people genuinly don’t remember that they’ve told a story a million times already. It’s weird…