Am I around mean people or am I too sensitive?

[shyna5555]

I really like my work, but the interactions with my colleagues are difficult. They don't reach out to me, and when I try to chat with them, I'm often ignored or cut off. Honestly, I don't feel like I have much in common with them. To me, they come across as pretentious, fake, and self-serving. I see myself as a genuine and sympathetic person, very different from them. Being around them sometimes makes me feel physically sick, and I feel incredibly isolated.

[Screenwriter]

This is hard to determine as I've never witnessed their treatment of you. But it sounds like you're quite angry that they ignore you and don't want to chat.

It might be the wrong kind of workplace for you. Not warm and fuzzy. Every place is different.

But if you find these people pretentious, fake and self-serving, why do you want to chat with them anyway?

However, your saying that you feel physically sick around them sounds like another story. I understand feeling isolated at your workplace, but remember, your workplace is not generally a place for you to find "friends." It's nice if you can, but you need to engage with people outside of work and not depend on a workplace to be anything more than a means to support yourself.

Why don't you talk to a counselor about these feelings of isolation and loneliness you're suffering through right now. Ask your primary care doctor who to speak to. Good luck.

[Bricealan]

@shyna5555 Never fear, many/most of have been in that position at some point in time with a work group. I was in that position at Ford Aerospace when I started there... know- it -all assholes, pushy, arrogant bastards. My group was mostly women, self-serving etc, been in their job too long, thought they owned Ford Aerospace.

Ride it out. I did, I was 36, college educated, wore suits to work... piss on 'em.

You will come out ahead... stay the course, don't let the bastards grind you down.

[glennos89]

Get another job if you feel like you don't fit in. A job is a job but because you spend a lot of time at work you should be working Somewhere where you feel like you fit in

[bowenw]

It sounds like they are the problem. Try to find a few nice ones or find friends that are not colleagues.

[LiamS95]

So message me instead

[Heusus]

B a little tuff, b alpha