Being awkward is okay when you’re at home, alone, and don’t have to interact with actual people.
But once you have to go into the outside world, and sit in a proper office, it all starts getting a bit uncomfortable.
Because while for most people workplaces are just where you go to get work done, for awkward people, a 9-to-5 is just a long series of moments ripe with social weirdness…
1. The horror when someone has the audacity to accept your offer of making tea
I was just being polite. Don’t make it weird.
2. Followed by the tense moment when someone offers to make you tea, and you’d actually quite like one, but you don’t want them to make it for you
Now you have to wait at least an hour to get up and make it yourself, so you don’t seem rude.
3. ‘I’m leaving’ announcements
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