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  • There’s a small number of surprisingly aggressive and unhelpful responses here. People are different and the world, especially the workplace, is made by extroverts and that can be difficult for those of us that are more introverted.

    In an ideal world your colleagues would be mindful of that but unfortunately that’s often not the case (and of course extroverts often don’t engage in a whole lot of self reflection).

    You’re going to have to put up with a bit of annoying small talk. Try to find something that’s a compromise you can live with. After that I’d say being polite but direct is best… nice chatting but I need to get back to work. No further elaboration is required.

    You can also try telling some people that you’re not a big chatter or something and that you like to just get on with work. See how that goes, people are often more understanding than you would expect.

    (I should say I live in the UK and work in a technical industry so YMMV).












  • I used to feel the same about settings pages but I’ve noticed I’m so used to the auto save settings way I now get annoyed at the opposite - when I change some settings, exit the page and then discover I’ve lost the changes because I was meant to click save.

    I guess either way can work fine it just needs to be properly designed.


  • This is useful insight but I think it’s important to remember that, as messed up as it sounds, different companies and their lawyers will interpret laws differently. It will be a risk vs reward calculation for each company. They won’t consider if it’s illegal or not, they’ll consider whether they’re likely to be prosecuted, what the fines would be, what the reputational damage would be, whether they have more lawyers than the government of a moderately sized country etc.

    I probably agree with the interpretation you’ve given and would like the governments to go after companies that think otherwise but that sadly isn’t how it works.