/wiz/ - Wizardry

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people quickly figure out you're a social retard of some kind and they stop respecting you. depending on the age of your co-workers, they might bully you if they're young. if they're middle-aged, they already have families and kids so they generally cooler and don't feel like they have anything to prove. depends also on the environment. office work where you mostly do work on your own and just have meetings and shit, it will be more chill than if you have to do manual labor and quickly coordinate with other people on shit. if you're incompetent at your job, you'll quickly get fired or ostracized until you quit because what people hate the most is when you make their job harder.

>>221256
>how do you deal with your work colleagues?
Mostly by remaining professional and keeping most communications somewhat work related.
A few dudes have similar enough interest or personalities where occasional small talk about latest pop-culture nerd thing is had, but that is the extent of it.
Oh, and unironically the weather is a frequent topic of small talk.

>do they know about youre being a wizard?
Why the fuck would that ever come up at work?

>do you think they talk behind your back and think you're weird?
As long as it doesn't effect my pay or make my job harder I don't give a shit. I make a point of avoiding gossip. I have low tolerance for such things.

>>221259
>Why the fuck would that ever come up at work?
well coworker ask if you have a gf, says no, then coworker ask have you ever had a gf, says no, then he says WHAT? you had sex at least right anon? says no
>gossip
I hate it too because you're put in trouble just for listening to it

Ive worked alone for almost all of my adult life.

Probably why I am 38 and still a wizard. There were only a few years where I actually had coworkers and I didnt talk to them much other than occasionally having lunch with them.

>>221261
what was your job to get alone all these years?

>>221262

Software developer for a government contractor. I lucked out in many ways to get int he position I am. Reshuffling happened during COVID and while other people found new jobs I was just like "fuck it, they can fire me. I dont care I have enough in savings to survive at least two years"

But I didnt get fired. I got hired by another company to do the same work but the guy assigned as my supervisor doesn't really giev a shit about me. He has no idea as to what I actually do but he signs my timesheets and I do my own performance evaluations. Apparently people wanted me around and I have no fucking clue why because I dont do shit. I think they just want to say they have someone working on this project but no one cares about it actually getting completed.

Things will probably change now that Trump is looking to trim the fat on federal spending, which includes funding leeches like me. But then again I am a contractor so they will probably just reassign me to another project at another location where I am actually expected to work.

>>221260
>well coworker ask if you have a gf
I don't talk about my personal life and would just shut down the conversation and change the subject.

You do know you don't have to answer questions if you don't want to.

>>221265
Not him, but I dont know how to steer conversations like that without it being a disaster

>>221265

>>221284
same

>>221284
>>221286
The fun thing about normies is if you stand your ground after a conversation falls apart they will almost always blame themselves for the conversation "being a disaster".
As long as you aren't rude or abrasive about it then you are probably fine.

>>221287
ok but what exactly should I say if I don't want to answer a question?
>I don't want to talk about it
?
somehow I feel like that will only bring more questions, trouble and gossip
normies have no moral brakes, they will not stop until they get their dose of drama

>>221287
How to refuse to answer a direct question without being rude or abrasive? I find it really hard.