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to those of you who like doing your job and go home, what do you tell chatty coworkers to keep their questions and time they take from you to a minimum? (feddit.de)

submitted 9 months ago by 6H2Od9XeDu@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm an introvert and I like going to work to do my job and go home. I don't understand people who use a job as a substitute for friendship or marriage. It's a means to an end.

The sooner I do my duties, the longer my downtime is going to be, and I love having my downtime.

Many of my colleagues see me and immediately start asking questions I don't want to answer, but neither do I want to hurt their feelings, I mostly want to be left alone. In the past this has been deconstructed as arrogance and people with fragile egos feel insulted by my indifference to them and that I prefer to work than to talk to them.

The world is made by extroverts. I have observed that people are eager to help you if you give them attention. I don't get it, but neither I'm not going to change how extroverts think or feel.

If I give them the attention they need for as long as they need it I'm going to end up with daily headaches and neither my job nor theirs is going to be done.

I want to appear approachable, but keeping the info I feed them to a minimum. How do I do that?

What do you talk about to your coworkers?

What do you say to stop conversation organically? (meaning they don't get offended).

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just tie everything back to work.

"My weekend? Oh, it was dreadful. Spent the whole time thinking about this project, and I really don't want to spend next weekend thinking about it too, so I gotta get this done."

"My hobbies? Oh man, I love Excel. The things you can do with it. I hear there are some great YouTube videos on it. It seems like you've got some down time; you should check them out! But I've got to get back to my spreadsheet now."

[–] 6H2Od9XeDu@feddit.de -1 points 9 months ago

lol, I'm using this