These threads are always puzzling to me because with rare exception I don’t want to chat or “connect’ with anyone in any office or at work and I don’t want to know anyone there on a personal level.

My co-workers are not my friends, nor do I want them to be. It does not mean I can’t be friendly with them; I am perfectly polite and approachable. I am not a jerk. But none are my friends because the reality is most would toss me under the bus if it came down to their job or me.

That is the actual reality of the working world.

I know I’m unusual and my reaction to that thread highlights it, I think. Terrible extroverts are gonna always attempt to get me to RTO, and I will always give a big hearty laugh and a loud FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUU.