BASIC BITCHES AND NORMIES

Just act aloof and don't engage them. Don't start conversations but be polite in passing. Never ever take a side or express an opinion. Don't hang around anywhere outside your office. That's how I survive in my office full of normies. Basically make yourself seem boring to the boring people and they'll ignore you.

>>12737222
Also don't really express any kind of emotion besides clipped politeness. Like you'd want them to treat you. Nice but not familiar.

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But it's not a particularly healthy environment to be in when you're regarded as the quiet yet polite weirdo that everyone pities. In fact it opens it up for office politics and bitching.

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>>12737230
I don't mean be quiet or whatever. You can just not engage but be nice and engage appropriately. Office politics is entirely avoidable. There are a lot of politics where I work. I'm able to detach from it all.

>>12737204
i just keep a casually friendly relationship with everyone at my job. it's really not that hard, just engage in conversations whenever some come up (if you're one of these "but i'm too smart for their unintellectual normiechat" types just off yourself, you're special in a bad way), give your two cents to whatever comes up, try to always be friendly, offer help and be as superficial and nice as you can be.
this is your work and not the place for you to fully express yourself and your oh so deep inner intruigings. use your time off for that.

>>12737204
Just stay out of topics that would alienate you. For example, once politics come up I try to check out and not engage. I try to talk about abstract stuff or hobbies that they are into, try to learn about something they are passionate about.

I may be lucky that most my coworkers are bros and smart and nerdy about certain things so there is always something interesting to get into. We have fun talking about the lowest of humor, basically fart jokes, at the same time we also talk about morality or high tech ways to rob a bank.