Hardartery wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 7:03 amWorking in an office exposed me to women that were openly "Loose", as if they are trying to be as sexually interested as men are portrayed as being. Not a good look usually, but I guess if you are into cheap hookups outside of your marriage... I also did not need to know most of my co-workers better. That's how I came to experience how racist and ignorant most of them actually are, they get a false sense of intimacy over time and get too comfortable so they stop hiding it. Seriously, I thought it was an historic thing and that no one was really like that anymore because my actual friends aren't like that. Then I got to see be there for open conversations amongst my white colleagues when the black guy and the lesbian weren't in the office on night shift. Wow. I don't ever need to find out what they are like when they really relax and act like they really are.
I did not necessarily enjoy my last stint in a manual labor position, but I miss being in a setting that didn't actively encourage small talk or smiling. You could show up, shut up, do the work, and go home. If everyone figured you were too pissy to be around on a given day, they'd send you off to man a station somewhere on your own, and no one got their genitalia all knotted up just because you weren't excited to see 'em more often than your own family.
It was awesome sometimes.
I've been in an office setting for the past 11 years, and I've mostly managed to keep my atheism and lack of interest in football on the hush. I think a few people suspect I don't worship their god, and some have tried to lay forth their assumption(s) that I'm a Rastafarian, a Muslim, NOI, or something more fashionable (a glamorized militant?), to see if I'll unwittingly out myself. I've had to keep my religion (or lack thereof) and tolerant views under wraps to avoid punishment.
I've sat through meetings where members of management have made shitty comments about their same-sex-couple neighbors (because what good is your God if he/it doesn't allow you to feel superior to somebody else?). One of my previous bosses got comfortable enough around me to refer to some other dude as "kinda f*ggy." I suppose, in their mind, lifting weights and sporting facial hair means I'd be welcome to that kind of talk, but at the same time, I gotta eat, so I said nothing in response. Just took my food out of the microwave and ducked outta the break room with haste and befuddlement. Another co-worker once lamented sitting next to "Al-Qaeda" on a plane ride to Chicago.
Some of these stupid motherfuckers even look like me, so it's hard to listen to them proudly display their intolerance, words all swaddled in the cloth of the good baby Jesus, and say shit that somebody most definitely would've been saying about them sixty or seventy years ago, in a management meeting that they almost certainly would not have been allowed to attend.
The good ol' boys don't surprise me much anymore. Every now and then I meet a flailer starving for attention, but otherwise it's the same old uninspired rhetoric.
As for some of the "attention" I get, I suspect it's a proximity issue. We see the same people every day in more or less close quarters. People get bored, understimulated, or whatever. Some people want a conquest, and personally I don't care what they do to get their rocks off -- as long as they leave me out of it.
I think some of these folks -- regardless of gender-- wanna shit where they eat for the sake of excitement.
It makes their occasional talk of loners being lonely hilarious to me.
Fucking tired of dealing with people, man. Same damn dance everywhere.