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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday July 28 2020, @12:57AM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday July 28 2020, @12:57AM (#1027441) Journal

    Wow how could you? What do you mean you don't want to participate in the weekly or biweekly potluck or the extra 15+ min tacked onto every meeting for just chatting about the weather and our weekends?

    I'm all for getting to know the people in my unit who i work with extensively, it is useful for finding strong and weak points to better divide the load effeciently. I just don't like all the extra stuff that isn't value added. My managers allow it all to be counted as work time, but counting something as work time doesn't reduce the number of things I need to get done.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DECbot on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:27PM

    by DECbot (832) on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:27PM (#1028754) Journal

    Not sure if it would work for you--nor that you could try it anytime soon, but I would be tempted to pile food on the plate, eat single most appetizing dish on the plate, find the person who made it and complement them, get seconds of the finished dish, and then excuse myself from the social event cause I have an urgent $THING that has to be done and I'm not sure if I'll have it ready and working to my expectations by the due date. Then take the plate back to my desk and enjoy lunch at my leisure. If you're repeatedly complementing the same person, next time find someone else that is easy to smalltalk to during the consumption of one dish before excusing yourself from the event. Then, you will appear to attempt to socialize but really do have other tasks that need to get done. That also tends to get the extrovert socialites to recognize that time is getting wasted and they should wrap it up and get back to their tasks.

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