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[–] 44 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You look around and realize your surrounded by the most articulate and interesting people in the world, and inside you know your just a lame jerkoff who has no business being there.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Im in college rn and this is exactly what it feels like when my smaller classes do introductions.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I recommend making yourself more interesting.

    For example, you could say that you're a free software enthusiast who's so passionate about open source software, you use an open source social media app instead of the corporate spyware.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And then they look at you like you just said to be an alien...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I used to suffer from that sort of problem, but then I started dressing like an insane wizard and being this weird all the time. Now people just expect Me to talk like an alien, so it doesn't catch them off-guard.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The best is the first person to start it sets the template for everyone else.

    Hi my name is ronald mcdonald, give job title, give boss name, say how long you worked here.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hi my name is Sergio and I laugh like this: "huh huh HA HO huh..." Next?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    People act like they are at gunpoint. It's perfectly fine to go “Hi, I'm Dusty, nice to meet you.” And leave it at that, no matter how much the extroverts before you ranted on about themselves. In my experience 99% of the time people feel just as apprehensive as you and don't really care. Now, if the entire point of the meeting is to introduce a team, please, just fucking cooperate. I've worked with too many people who refuse to participate on the meetings, and they make workflows so unnecessarily obstructive. I want to finish my task and go home as well, just pay attention to the communication tools, I don't care how much of a mystery you like to portray yourself as. Specially if our work depends on each other's coordination.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    My name is Rod and I like to party.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I do it for 2 reasons:

    1. Make sure everyone is supposed to be there. I've had people show up to meetings that weren't supposed to be there and everyone else thought they were with one of the other groups in on the meeting.
    2. Figure out if the other side tried sneaking in a lawyer. If they bring a lawyer, we need to bring ours.
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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Like anyone gives a fuck and remembers anyway

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    A few of these wombles have escaped the confinement of the office and discovered the outdoors, and will do this at the start of an activity.

    And I try and veto that whenever possible.

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  • Because extroverts rule the world and we just live in it

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Courtesy? I mean come on, is it really asked to much to say your name and why you are part of this meeting?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    "hi, I'm midnight, and I'm here because all you fucks need me, unfortunately. I'm also not getting paid overtime for this 7am meeting..."

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    I mean come on, is it really asked to much to say your name and why you are part of this meeting?

    Yes.

    It makes the meeting artificially longer; if we would just get started, we would save save. Doing this is just being disrespectful to everyone's time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, yes, because save save the precious business - hours we must. Let's not spoil them with some human interaction.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    spoil them with some human interaction.

    How is that "spoiling" someone?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    spoil /spoil/ intransitive verb

    To impair or destroy the value or quality of; ruin.
    "spoiled the dish by adding too much salt; spoiled the party by getting into an argument."
    To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency. synonym: pamper.
    Similar: pamper To plunder; despoil. 
    

    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Psychologically speaking, check ins at the beginning of the meeting are important to create connections in the group and make people feel more comfortable to speak up later. It's literally just behavioural science.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Its like 2 sentences, come on

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    This actress would absolutely ROCK playing character Kindra in a live action adoption of the game Artemis ( an S tier Adult Visual Novel).

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