#short sleeve button down covered in sharks with a vampire squid necklace and jeans with a faded blue fauxhawk. this needs to be possible in | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

toytulini · 2 months ago

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I dont know why youve leapt to assuming this post was about the workplace? the original post mentioned friends, family, and going out for drinks, and it feels a bit like a bad faith read to assume this meant for you to try to talk about weird niche TV show interests to your boss, when it seems far more likely to be a post about not letting cringe culture rule your entire life, in a time when its so common for ppl to let themselves become beholden to tiktok microtrends, and being terrified that theyll lose all their friends if anyone finds out they enjoy steven universe.

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

#reblog #this feels like it was a personal post by the OP who has realized that stifling every interest and thing that they like to constantly #manage how they are percieved and avoid doing anything cringey or weird is uh fucking exhausting and terrible for your mental health #that has spread quite far past containment #and is now being entirely misread as reveal every weird little thing about yourself At Work.#maybe i simply dont know any better tho cos ive so far worked in warehouse grunt jobs with a bunch of other weird unhinged little freaks #im fairly certain that entire second shift had adhd or something similar enough lmao #i have weird colored hair i even went in a couple times with it styled into sort of a bihawk. i wore a shirt covered in furbies. i carry #a purse shaped like a trilobite. so far the most challenging thing for my coworkers seemed to be the fact that i continue to diligently #wear an n95 cos i dont want to get sick. i wasnt telling my coworkers about my depraved oc lore...but id talk about the newest season of #stranger things with them since i watched it. i talked about cats and fish. i talked about atla. i told a couple of them that i wanted to #learn how to walk on stilts. it was fine. yes youre going to have to do some amount of managing how your percieved. but if you let that #take priority over every aspect of your life youll go insane #and there are people who have let their fear of being judged take over every single aspect of their life #and they do genuinely need to hear that its okay to wear a cringey band Tshirt or whatever #also: i hope porfessionalism standards continue to get more lax. death to professionalism. i just got a job offer wearing a tacky print #short sleeve button down covered in sharks with a vampire squid necklace and jeans with a faded blue fauxhawk. this needs to be possible in #more workplaces and its stupid that it isnt. even if you are not expressing your true self at work for your own safety. you should at least #recognize that these standards are absurd and arbitrary. and if a coworker is brave enough to reveal a tiny bit of their authenticity to u #i think it would be kind to give them the space for that. even if its not your weird.#that said. in these warehouses there were also people who were unhinged in the bad way. the 'blasting alex jones at work' way.#and i was fairly cold to these people. i did my best to be purely professional with them and not express interest in getting to know them.#and i didnt love that the guy who thought stop signs = communism (derogatory from him) was also driving a forklift around #but to his credit he did at least obey the stop signs. so.#this job thats accepted me with the tacky fish shirt and blue hair doesnt pay super well and seems like its going to be a bit chaotic. but #we'll see. and if it doesnt work there i can always go back to that first warehouse job unfortunately. cos im pretty sure they wouldve let #me get away with so so so much

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