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Relationships at Work & Social Stress

September 16th, 2006

I have been getting increasingly stressed at work recently. One of the reason is doing what I do (or did), telesales, is just frustrating. This coupled with cliquey behaviour at work is just damn annoying.

I believe apart of the clique/social thing is due to me. I might have said things during the week that have offended. Perhaps it’s the tone of my voice, I don’t vary it enough to let people know I’m just joking.

This is one of the occasions. The boss was getting a couple of pizzas for work. This is how he gets people to work during lunch. Sly. People were choosing their toppings.

Abbey

Can I get beef and onion

Me

Ugh. Beef and onion, that’s disgusting.

I didn’t mean it in an offensive way, but she took it as such. Sighed, and rolled her eyes or something.

We’ve had a few of these encounters now. I’m going to speak to her one to one, and try to clear up the air on Monday. I’m going to tell her look, I’m sorry if I’ve offended you at all, I didn’t mean to, and I hope we can put it behind us and start a fresh. Something along those lines.

Social Lesson Being Learnt: Get to know people first, before jokingly put down people. They are likely to get offended otherwise.

I am also not speaking loud enough! It is almost I don’t want people to hear what I’m saying so they cannot judge me, but I want to say it at the same time. I’m not a pussy. Speak up!

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