Do you work in a big office where not everybody knows each other? Do you hate the obligatory quiet politeness that everyone shows all the time? Like you aren't allowed to have a personality if you work in an office.
The thing I hate the most is the closed-mouth half smiles I always find myself giving people (who I don't know, yet work with) as I walk by them. The worst is when you start the trek down a lengthy corridor and see someone way down at the other end coming your way. You know eventually you are going to have to make eye contact with that person, flash a fake half smile and maybe utter a "hi" under your breath. So, the entire walk up until that point is spent diverting your attention either at the posters on the wall (which you have looked at so many times by now that there can't possibly be anything new to see) or awkwardly straight ahead, waiting for the exact right time to look at the oncoming traffic. If you stare too long at a person, you're weird. I mean, this is an office, not a park...no people watching allowed. It's even worse when you walk by two people having a conversation. There is a strict "no looking allowed" rule there. Don't want to seem like you're interrupting anything just to say a soft "hey."
There have been many times I have told myself that I would be outgoing and give people nice, hearty "HI!s" but, I've never actually been able to do it. Maybe one day.
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