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I don't know anymore and I need a break from it all

I don't know anymore and I need a break from it all

Last night I went out against my initial instinct not to. I figured I needed some social atmosphere after a dull day at work. My work is dull and there is only one place I can work at out of a possible 6 places that I actually feel accepted and appreciated - but they have me doing such meaningless work. This is all down to the fact that the workplace is boring and the work is itself boring as well. There is so much politics in the workplace because of this - more than the average workplace.

I already know that I am the subject of rumours and gossip due to a mistake I made once about mid way through last year. I accidently tagged someone in an email chain at another work station and they saw what I had written. This person has then gone on to tell others and I believe this is why I look like a fool to them and its why they have started to treat me differently in many places.

I didn't say anything bad about people and I didn't say anything horrible. I just said that they didn't train people there at that workstation and that people did not like there generally.

I will be returning to that workstation on monday and tuesday next week and I am REALLY REALLY dreading it. They tell secrets, they gossip, they play games they do all sorts of rubbish there. I will be treated like scum and I am not looking forward to it one bit.

Last night I was out and I felt bad and then good and then normal. It was very mixed. I don't have social media aside from facebook which I don't use often enough at all. I am not into that stuff even though I probably should be and could probably benefit from the interaction - but its all so fake.

Today I have spent a long time doing basic tasks for my internship because I want to make a good impression and FINALLY LEAVE MY CURRENT JOB to do something new with this company. It is relevant to my area of study and I can see myself doing it. I think I will take a huge downward turn if I don't get something out of this role. My attention is so strained by the thought of going to this place next week that I don't know how to find my way through this bad time.

I feel isolated and hated by people and I don't deserve to feel that way.

There is so much fake stuff in the world and I have had enough of it, but I don't know what to replace it with.

I feel empty and lost and I am really just done with pop psychology and BS self esteem movements that just say I need accept myself and love myself. That's not possible when I am in a bad place and surrounded by bad stuff. It's like saying "snap out of it" to someone who is depressed.

I feel like my social skills have taken a huge leap forward but then a giant leap backwards in the past 2 years. Back to where they were long ago.

I am tired. Really tired. Depressed and sad. Lonely and exhausted.

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https://youtu.be/uAE6Il6OTcs
@saltandpepper

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Thanks @saltandpepper

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What's going on:? @MDT

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Just not happy is all @saltandpepper
Weird experience at work today. Dunno what to make of it

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Ahkay @MDT so what happened at work?

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I'm a bit behind the convo here @MDT but thinking of you.

I saw a tshirt recently: your anxiety is lying to you.

Yes, simplistic, but it can be the case.

It's hard to contemplate when you're in the thick of it, but at some stage when you can step back it's worthwhile.

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Yesterday I am thinking one thing about what my colleagues think of me @saltandpepper
That they respect me and know I'm doing my job. Then one or two instances occur where it makes me question this.
I think they may be gossiping.
But idk. I hate it. It reminds me of my old workplace.
I just ask myself the question - am I doing all I can to ensure I'm doing my job. The answer is yes. I believe I am.
Its just the inter-office political BS that I hate. With a passion.
Fortunately there seems to be others who I can chat to - its just that I wont be working with them closely.
But again, the job itself and what I am doing is better than where I was. Plus this role is temp til October.
Wont be forever. I think of it like a skills booster. A short term course in that regard.
It doesn't sound PC I know, but there is a different dynamic in existence when there are more women than men in these sorts of roles.

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Hey man sorry I'm a bit empty on the support offerings atm. Think you kinda hit the nail on the head though, you're reminded of your old workplace--old wounds. Everyone gossips, that's humans for ya. Focus on the people you're comfortable wirh and try not to let that other shit get in your head. Hey maybe they're talking about how they wanna bone you, I don't know, maybe it's not bad stuff

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work is mostly about personal interaction not 'whether you can do the job or not' @MDT if you get on with others, they will cut you slack with work stuff til you get it

its a mistake I made over and over for decades, thinking, oh Im good at what I do. That has a little bit to do with it, but it's mostly how you fit in

if you talked to these people or at least remained neutral and kept an open mind might be a better way to go.

think they might see you avoiding them and wondering why you are acting like that(because of your imagination?) so it would become self-fulfilling.

not sure what the ;weird' thing was? you didnt say

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I think they are maybe just generally more social than I am @TAB
I need my space from people.

Weird thing was yesterday when I asked a question to my boss. One of the new people reacted in a weird way like I should know the answer. MAde me think she was told something about me being incompetent or something idk. It's just that I have been in workplaces before where rumours go around - people don't even care to value individuals and look at people as either "inside" or "outside"
In the end it is a temp role and I am there for the experience. To get me out of what I was doing. Come Ocotober it'll all be history.

I think the best approach from now on is to just do the job. I get along fine with others - it's just that I'm not working closely with them. Plus next week I am expecting a new person to be job sharing with me so that'll be nice I think - help. There's a lot of delegation going on. Which I don't mind. It's just the interaction side of it I find hard because people there are high maintenance and at differeing stages of life too - a bit older than me. My boss is actually in charge of people older than her too so maybe some people don't like it?
Just a lot of questions without many answers at the moment. Maybe I gotta give it a few more weeks.

Monday I will work from home.

Also too, my anxiety is up lately because of everything. Maybe that isn't helping too
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