| this isn't high school, and i won't treat it as such. |
[Apr. 28th, 2007|02:19 am] |
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DWIGHT: Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life. –The Office 2x21, "Conflict Resolution"
I get bullied at the office. Nothing big--it's a thousand social cues to let me know exactly where I stand--but I'm at the bottom of the social hierarchy there. I'm fucking tired of it. If they were coworkers, I'd go to HR, but they're customers, so I can't. In lieu of this, I asked Brian (who was at the office) to step outside, where I vented like mad, saying that if my continued presence at that particular office wasn't critical to the company staying solvent, I'd have quit today. Brian tried to tell me that I'll be doing other things... but I know they want me there, and that's what pays the bills for the foreseeable future.
So, I've stopped smiling at their jokes, partly because they're not funny, but mostly because it's a sign of appeasement, and gives them the green light to continue acting like that. It's an acceptance of the behavior, and I'm going to stop accepting it. This isn't high school; we're not in a meaningless trophy-wife dominance hierarchy based on nothing, nothing, nothing at all, and I'm not going to act like we are.
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