People Compelled To Talk Bullshit

why??!!! Or maybe the question should be what is it about me that gives off the vibe I'm even remotely interested in what's being said. Serious I'm standing for twenty minutes or more, no less and listening to someone just talk. I don't know what about really, their life? But it's all bullshit, every day a new and improved story and I'm staring at a wall thinking about other things I must use the blankest look on my face and it just must be that inviting. Fuck man I just want to put my earphones in and do my job, right?
It's a frustrating event that takes up at least two hours of my day. Listening to shit. I got lots of shit to say myself but I know they'd not be interested, don't know why they think I am so I just never talk much. I must be a good listener. But it does have a daunting effect like I wanna enjoy my morning coffee in peace and I know it's going to be 15mins of what they did last night or who they've fucked or think they've fucked, what cars they've driven and all the stats on the things and then what happened on Facebook and just fuck off, wouldya, ****.

It's really getting to me.

 

I tell them to go be superficial somewhere else because I don't care

 

go go gadget bullshit shovel.

nvm go go gadget nuclear..

 

you have it bad brother....people want to talk and be your friend.....i'd sooner be an orphan in a Syrian refugee camp than go through that bull shit

good luck man....hang tuff

 

I'm sorry; but There have been times I've actively thought while the people talked why are they saying and telling me this. deargod

you'll learn to let it roll off your back and how to ease away. Sometimes its harder to "ease away" than other times. Unfortunately - or not - I can empathize...I seem to have the kind of face or whateveritits that encourages people to tell stuff (personal shit) to. lol gad tho

 

hierarchy hates morality. not without reason. if everyone was mutually considerate of each other, there would be no hierarchy.
in its desperation, it convinces us of the self fulfilling negative fantasy, that it is beyond human capacity to do so.

 

I'm like Jerry Seinfeld into where someone is talking and I'm literally thinking, I wonder would happen if I jumped out this window? Except I'm staring at a brick wall we stack empty boxes on and I'm staring at the wall thinking "I wonder what would happen if I just shoulder charged through the wall. Would I come out on the other side dusting myself off? What would the reaction in the office be?"

That's how bored I get during. I now just phase off into my own state of unconsciousness hoping I still have an interesting look on my face. Then at times you snap back to reality and he's still carrying on about something.

I find the humor in it, but I just want to listen to music.

 

It's not so much a conversation of friendship. We'll never spend time together outside of work. I contemplate they're actually telling me things to justify their own reasonings or to hope it makes sense to themselves, or maybe they believe what they're saying is true. I just don't know but I've unfortunately known too many of them. In an office environment surprisingly I never met any like this, but either in a trade or a warehouse or on the road they're just on every corner, every 3rd person you meet.

 

have a coworker like this. She just chatters to me about who knows what. I make a big show of being really into whatever I'm working on or really stressed because I have so much work to do and yet she just chatters on.

 

I find this to be the case with most people. It's like they talk just for the sake of talking, and it's always bullshit coming from their mouths. This is why I don't really much care for socializing. The art of socializing is really just the art of bouncing bullshit off of one another.

 

I suppose it's all about how a person presents themselves to actually tell a captivating story about one of their life's experiences. Some people make themselves really interesting in the way they present themselves, whereas others just downright suck at conversation.

 

Eh...I get paid to work with people. I get paid the same amount no matter what I'm doing. Sometimes people are annoying but sometimes they are fascinating to me. I love the older people who have great stories about things that happened before my time. But customer service is part of my job so I have to deal with a lot of people. For being an introvert, I actually kind of enjoy working with all of the customers. I've known many of them for many years.

 

There’s a technique you can use to alleviate the discomfort, Imagine you’re deaf, and the person talking is using sign-language or ASL


Hotwater

 

Num -nums. Birdie num-nums.

 

what makes you think it's just you? i kind of think dealing with these people is just a major part of existing in a society.

 

people are compelled to talk bullshit by the tyranny of the dominance of aggressiveness. until everyone gets their heads out, and starts boycotting aggressiveness instead of praising and worshiping it, talking bullshit remains an annoying demand of survival. all out of proportion with any supposed benefit to either individual or society.

 

No offense, but this mindset seems prevalent in people who either suck at socializing or are just a(nti)social (could partially be because they suck at it so much). When it really seem to 'break the ice' for a lot of people and make them feel comfortable and happy to conversate with their new convo partner then it seems to me the art of socializing really is some kind of art. That it is not spend well on several other people does not change that or make it complete bullshit in all cases. I do acknowledge situations as described in OP, and of course there are forms of socializing that are pure bullshit. But I guess that only makes good and fun socializing more of an art, right?

 

You know what annoys me? Someone says 'did you see so & so on TV?' - I explain that I didn't see it, and in fact don't have a TV. You then get a 10 minute run down of what happened.

Same with sport. 'Did you see the match?' - No - I find football boring. This really seems to pass by any filters these folks ought to have in place. It can result in a description of the match, info on upcoming transfers etc. I think it's because they've made football such a central thing that they can't deal with the fact that another person might have absolutely zero interest.

Best not even to mention medical bores..................

 

Yeah, some folks are boring or bullshitters, but I've found that one can learn something from almost everyone, except compulsive liars. Pays to have a good bullshit detection system.