Thursday, March 29, 2012

The office awkward guy

"That one guy" in the office.  You all know him, can barely remember his name if at all, and are completely annoyed anytime he shows his awkward face.  I myself have fallen victim to this tragedy time to time, I have a few examples.  First of all I hope you have seen "Office Space" if not, you may not fully understand this reference...  So I am sitting in my wonderfully decorated cubicle (a hint of sarcasm) and just keyboard punching away, the time is probably around 7:20AM, and I am not a morning person by any means.  Normally I would have some headphones in or a fan going just so it isn't silent, but not this time, just dead silent.  Now the opening to the cubicle is behind me so I don't always see when someone is coming in or wants to talk, etc. 

Out of nowhere I here "Goooood morning CJ, how's it going?" In a low drab tone, mind you EXACTLY like Bill Lumbergh in Office Space, now I thought, "this guy has to be screwing with me", haha you have seen the movie too, blah blah... But no.  He was just that awkward guy coming to talk to me about bullshit for 10 minutes while I acted like I was busy and kept turning back to my computer and pounded at the keyboard a bit.  Now this was not the first interaction with this being, just one of the memorable ones. It happens a few times a week now because I made the mistake of talking with another co-worker about a video game he also has interest in and he swiftly came over to our conversation and butted in explaining he enjoyed the same game.  That pretty much killed the entire conversation, because nobody really likes talking with him, so we all went back to doing our own thing.  About 20 minutes later I get an email from him asking to play with me and some friends on our server, and the well crafted email was ridiculously pretentious and just screamed "I am so full of my self that Narcissus would cringe".

I immediately forwarded the email to some friends because it literally made me laugh out loud.  Whenever he comes over to get a cup of coffee, I just duck down and act like I am so busy that I have no time to converse with him, Yet he still comes over and being asked no questions feels the need to fill me in on every detail of work he needs to do today and how busy it will be... How about this, leave me the hell alone, go sit in your cube and do your work with out letting me know all of the details, because I don't honestly think that I could care any less about your day.  Now I know that I am probably coming off like a bitter asshole, which is fine, I can accept that role.  I know I am not the only one with this floating around their brain, and most of the people around in my area have the same damn things to say about him that I do so I can't be all wrong taking this stance.  My message to that guy or girl in the office; Why do you feel the need to drown people in your boring ass details of work? If you wanted to be my friend, come over, ask if I'm busy, if not, go off on something you don't like about work or a hobby we may have in common, but do it with out butting in to another person's conversation, or just being completely socially awkward, get off your damn high horse and talk to me like another drone in the corporate world.

Thank you.



1 comment:

  1. It's amazing that some people just don't get the hint... But there's something entertaining about having the power to crush ones soul in a single heavy-handed sentence.

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