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by magduf 2917 days ago
>Is making your co-workers your friend group a new thing?

I wonder if it's generational. I work with a group of millenials (~30) and my attitude is exactly like yours, but they're mostly all friends with each other, go to each other's places, etc. I'm honestly shocked that they ever hired me in here.

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I’ve been in those workplaces. The last one saw me mobbed out on a phony allegation the day before I went to a funeral, told my actions “T-T-Trump any explanation” by a director of Eng (Cormack at OpenTable, there’s been total refusal of dialog so I name him... and he stuttered-ed-ed it like that). In reality I used a colorful descriptor to get a persistent drunk girl to leave me alone, but the grape vine escalated to include drunken table flipping and there were 3 “matching” reports. Friends, man. Was also mobbed out of a prior job in the same way, but didn’t observe the social dynamics much then. Both involved Cal snowflakes. Kids are bannanas and my 18 year career is wrecked, over a mild potty mouth... it’s not what you say, it’s your social status when you say it; sounds like you’re bottom of the totem.
Making fun of a stutter isn't cool.