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- Nov 15, 2011
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I've had three days off this week with this one being my last. I pretty much work into the weekend starting tomorrow and I'm dreading it. I don't even think it's the work anymore.
It's the people.
I am a goofy oddball. A perfect fit for the rather intense overnight shift. Increasingly however there seems to be a continuous need to treat me as a zoo animal like that guy from that one Twilight Zone episode. Folks, on management and team member sides, talk to me for only a few minutes but then return to their respective cliques as if they will get clowned for talking to "that crazy guy" over there.
Case in point:
Half of the breakroom got upset with me Sunday because I essentially told me I refuse to see Man Of Steel because I already saw it back in the day when it was called Superman I and Superman II. I'm a movie nut, but I would never take it to the level of doing the dozens or being called an idiot. Yes, I know you are supposed to see a movie before you judge it, but I already knew what was in there.
Other things tend to annoy me about my team: Constantly I am asked sex questions and shown images of girls on Instagram because there is a notion that I am a sexless dweeb. I try not to respond, but we are forced into the breakroom so that we have no choice but to bother each other even with headphones on.
The whole thing reached a level where someone actually offered me a free ticket.
I'm still debating whether taking me means I'm assimilating or simply trying to squash this crap.
It's the people.
I am a goofy oddball. A perfect fit for the rather intense overnight shift. Increasingly however there seems to be a continuous need to treat me as a zoo animal like that guy from that one Twilight Zone episode. Folks, on management and team member sides, talk to me for only a few minutes but then return to their respective cliques as if they will get clowned for talking to "that crazy guy" over there.
Case in point:
Half of the breakroom got upset with me Sunday because I essentially told me I refuse to see Man Of Steel because I already saw it back in the day when it was called Superman I and Superman II. I'm a movie nut, but I would never take it to the level of doing the dozens or being called an idiot. Yes, I know you are supposed to see a movie before you judge it, but I already knew what was in there.
Other things tend to annoy me about my team: Constantly I am asked sex questions and shown images of girls on Instagram because there is a notion that I am a sexless dweeb. I try not to respond, but we are forced into the breakroom so that we have no choice but to bother each other even with headphones on.
The whole thing reached a level where someone actually offered me a free ticket.
I'm still debating whether taking me means I'm assimilating or simply trying to squash this crap.