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Post by greenleaf on Aug 27, 2012 15:04:43 GMT -5
Okay, so I'm in college and I have a work study job in an office on campus. All the people who work in that office are really nice and like having me working there, but they've mentioned several times that I'm so quiet that sometimes they forget I'm even there. That annoys me because usually when I'm working I'm either in a separate room where the file cabinets are or I'm at a computer in the back corner of the office. If one of them walks by and says hi while I'm working then I'll say hi back, but I mean when I'm working it's not like I can really have conversations with them. I don't want to seem like I'm complaining about the people in that office because like I said they're really nice, but I guess I'm just more frustrated with myself that I come off as so shy to them. And I don't really know what to do about it.
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Post by Karen on Aug 28, 2012 6:01:59 GMT -5
It took me about a year at my current job before everyone stopped commenting on how quiet I was. I started forcing myself to say things when I was around my co-workers, even something simple like 'how are you today?'. Eventually it got easier to chat with them, even though I'm still not a talkative person at work.
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Post by marle on Aug 28, 2012 6:45:44 GMT -5
I'm glad I come across as shy and quiet in my workplace, so that people will attribute my demeanor to that rather than being standoffish. I don't make any effort to speak unprompted, I just try to be polite when someone talks to me. I know it's not good for my job security/prospects to be very quiet, so in that sense I'm not happy about it. I just can't seem to help being any other way. It also seems that just being around the same people for much of a day doesn't make me feel any more bonded to them - maybe because we never speak about anything other than straight-forward work issues. It's like I'm a social dead-end. Partly due to my apathy about it.
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