I get treated OK at work by people including the office workers and my co-workers. I don’t get insulted or intimidated too often. I did start being assertive and a little aggressive because it’s an army reserve building and it’s too easy to get rolled over and ignored if you don’t. But I loosened up a little for awhile now and I might have impressed some people. I sure impressed me, that’s for sure.
I never disliked my co-workers but I feel they condescend towards me. So I still joke around and I can laugh at myself and even handle when they rib me sometimes. It’s such a relief. But it’s my fault if I don’t get the respect I deserve. I don’t talk about my past much and thus they think I’m way more naïve than I really am.
The male supervisor has a bad temper and I think years ago he despised me but he’s coming around I think and we joke around and talk. Today four of us were working in the breakroom moving tables and chairs and I talk way more than I used to but I still have periods where I just don’t feel like talking. But I talk enough so that the times I’m quiet they give me a break and don’t pressure me to talk. But I was talking to the new guy and we were moving tables and I was telling him when I worked four years at Sears unloading trucks, that I would have been lifting these tables by myself instead of using two people. And that’s the truth. And my supervisor heard and I just saw a look of respect and acknowledgement on his face. Score another one for 77nick77.
