Every day, all day, I have to lie to clients at work and tell them I’m good. I’m far from good and lying about it constantly is killing me.
I’m incredibly lonely and almost everything I usually enjoy feels like a goddamn chore.
Anyone else here feel like that? If so, how do y’all cope?
Then stop lying about it :
“Hey, how you doin’?”
" Everything’s bad, as usual, thanks"
Or
“Just as bad as yesterday, thanks, what about you?”
Or
“… next question?”
If it’s a client and can’t afford to be awkward, just say say
“Just another day”
And if people ask for more details but you don’t want to talk about it, just say :
“Just having a bad day”
Or
“Nothing good happened yet”
Or
“Nothing out of the ordinary”
Or just make up your honest but polite answers
Getting fired speed run
I should’ve gotten fired long ago if that was true… nope, quite the opposite.
Depends on the job. If you tell random people you’re doing bad they usually look at you funny at the very least.
Yep OP should get out of their misery cycle by at least sharing a little of the misery they feel. Could be helpful.
If I’m having a crappy day especially at work my answer is "Another day another dollar, how about you? "
I feel like it would be really interesting to see what would happen if everyone started doing this at once, but as it stands it’d just make things more complicated for yourself.
Not at all. I’ve done this for years and it’s not complicated in the least.
Well, I actually do this for real 😅
After the second or third time a coworker (or family member) asks me how I’m doing and gets the “just as bad as usual” response, they just laugh and move on 😂
You must be a hit at parties.