In my experience of keeping peace, at least in a workplace, is to always do small talk as much as possible.
You can probably view the work place as sort of a microcosm of larger environments.
There's an expression that's something like if goods aren't traded between countries then bullets and missiles will be.
I've found that to be the case a lot of times in the work place.
Personally I've noticed if you don't talk to people in work you're much more likely to be bitched about and bullied.
For some reason it's difficult to just remain silent for people to be neutral about you.
I've had it happen to me before and I've seen it happen to other people where there's a new person, they're quiet, and people just invent reasons to hate this new guy.
He's quiet so he probably thinks he's too good to talk to us, he's weird, really arrogant.
Maybe it's some form of autism in me or I'm a bit anti social naturally but it took me a long time to figure out the pattern of, if I come up with bullshit convos to talk about with people at the start of the day, by the end of the day these stupid aggressive, chav people I work with tend to not give me random shit or bitch about me behind my back.
There's some people it won't work on, some people just want friction, or they love bullying and they've decided you're a good victim.
Or there were some cases with me where I refused to make small talk with some people because I found their personalities were just too disgusting.
I know some people think it's mind numbing and soul destroying to come up with small talk but I think it can be a pretty fun challenge really, trying to read people and figure out what makes them tick. Beyond the usual boring crap like football or alcohol, or just moaning about how fucked the country/world/everything supposedly is.
You can probably view the work place as sort of a microcosm of larger environments.
There's an expression that's something like if goods aren't traded between countries then bullets and missiles will be.
I've found that to be the case a lot of times in the work place.
Personally I've noticed if you don't talk to people in work you're much more likely to be bitched about and bullied.
For some reason it's difficult to just remain silent for people to be neutral about you.
I've had it happen to me before and I've seen it happen to other people where there's a new person, they're quiet, and people just invent reasons to hate this new guy.
He's quiet so he probably thinks he's too good to talk to us, he's weird, really arrogant.
Maybe it's some form of autism in me or I'm a bit anti social naturally but it took me a long time to figure out the pattern of, if I come up with bullshit convos to talk about with people at the start of the day, by the end of the day these stupid aggressive, chav people I work with tend to not give me random shit or bitch about me behind my back.
There's some people it won't work on, some people just want friction, or they love bullying and they've decided you're a good victim.
Or there were some cases with me where I refused to make small talk with some people because I found their personalities were just too disgusting.
I know some people think it's mind numbing and soul destroying to come up with small talk but I think it can be a pretty fun challenge really, trying to read people and figure out what makes them tick. Beyond the usual boring crap like football or alcohol, or just moaning about how fucked the country/world/everything supposedly is.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
