Currently listening to: Back From The Dead – Skylar Grey feat. Big Sean, Travis Barker
I held the funeral the day you leftA black umbrella and a sad song in my headBuried your pictures that I loved the most‘Cause if you survived me I just didn’t wanna knowSo you can’t just come back now like a demon uninvitedNo you can’t just expect me to open my door to you because
I’m in a handful of group chats on TEAMS — some are for actual work, like project updates or meeting threads. Others… well, they exist purely for the chisme. You know the ones. A bit of gossip, a sprinkle of unnecessary commentary, and the occasional humblebrag that’s not so humble.
What drives me up the wall is when certain colleagues just keep circling back to talk about how amazing and important they are — over and over again. It becomes background noise, but not in a peaceful lo-fi kind of way. More like… static interrupting my brainwaves.
So when the chat becomes more of a distraction than a discussion, I do what I need to do.
“Rojie has left the chat.”
Yes. I really left.
And yes, my coworkers will immediately message me on the side, like, “Wait… did you actually leave?”
I reply, “I mean… yeah? I’m busy. I have things to do, deadlines to meet, I don’t have time for whatever is going on in the chat right now. If there’s anything truly important, just loop me back in or send over the highlights.”
Technically, I could mute the conversation but I don’t want all the clutter in my TEAMS either.
Does anyone else do this too?
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