It seems a lot of people absolutely despise the idea of spending any of their free time with their coworkers, even something as measly as a lunch break that you're basically stuck at work for anyways. I could understand it if your coworkers were particularly nasty to you or something like that, but it seems that a lot of people have fine relationships with their coworkers and still would rather sit in a car alone to eat lunch rather than having a conversation at a table or go home after work and watch TV rather than get a beer or coffee.
I can understand people want to hide or whatever, but why is that such a widespread phenomenon now? It wasn't always like that as I understand. From a lot of what I've read and heard, fairly intimate relationships between coworkers were much more common. It seems like if we're talking about the general breakdown of society or the decay of the labor movement, this is an obvious symptom that doesn't seem to have anyone's attention. So what gives?
I don't really have that much in common with them. I'm used to socialization over the internet, where I can find communities centered around my interests and immediately be in a millieu of people who - in many cases - know not just what I know, but often significantly more.
I had to actually explain to a older coworker who Weird Al Yankovic is while we were talking music. The idea that someone with eminently more life experience than me could just have, like, no frame of reference to who Weird Al is irritated me in the exact same way politicians acting like Ninteen Eighty-Four is some deep cut and not high school reading did. Like, everyone knows about Ninteen Eighty-Four, right? Pretty much the first thing anyone would think of when they think dystopian fiction? The proverbial face of the genre?
Doesn't help that i'm too easily distracted by small talk in general.
Well now I want to know what that guy did have familiarity with, if Weird Al was some kind of esoteric knowledge to him.
right? MF been asleep under a rock for several decades surely
His brain has been exclusively playing the riff from Freebird for 50 years straight.
"Eat It" hit the charts in 1984.
:geordi-no: "Weird" Al Yankovic
:geordi-yes: Ray Stevens (some songs are funny, some are very cringy and the last thing I heard about him he was a garden variety boomer chud so don't look him up)
Reminds me of stories of Americans who, six months into the pandemic, had somehow never heard of it and were confused about why everyone was lining up to get their noses swabbed.
We make fun of libs for reading the new york times and chuds for loving tucker, but huge numbers of americans get their news exclusively through facebook and local news broadcasts. Fox News would probably be an upgrade for these people.
The “hadn’t heard about Covid but knows what cancel culture is” guy from Trilbillies