totally socially awkward tuesday

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It is, yet again, Tuesday! I am much more excited about Tuesday than I normally am. Why? Because I have a vacation day tomorrow. BF and I were supposed to knock off Cedar Point from my 101 in 1001 list, but it looks like rain. And Cedar Point is no fun in the rain. So we are still taking the day off from work (hence, the excitement) and will find ourselves doing some other fabulous activity!

I’m starting to really enjoy Mondays. Well, at least the Monday night part of the Mondays. Mondays happens to be discount movie night at the local theater. I usually pick movies like Transformers 2 or something else that reminds me I’m more of a dude than a chick. But last night I wanted to see The Ugly Truth. So away we went. It was funny. But I cried (why I’m not even sure). BF thought “ehh it was alright.” Which means ‘I don’t want to rain on your parade but it sucked.’ Oh well! Five dollars worth of a movie it was!

But back to Tuesdays! The other reason that I am so excitable about Tuesdays is Tova’s Totally Awkward Tuesday posts!

So the subject of my post is appropriately inappropriate. Seeing as how I am leaving my current position at Big Company, I might as well poke some fun. Right? Sure I can justify anything (like buying those TWO iced coffee tumblers from Starbucks.com last night…).

My current position at Big Company is a techie-like position (I say techie-like because I pretend to be super technical but ask other people to hook my computer up–yes I’m capable, I’m just lazy). We hire people to answer calls and make calls about tech related issues. I am their oh-so-humble techie trainer (I know, funny, right??). Big Company is known to hire the most socially awkward people. Ever. I have a very relaxed personality and like to crack jokes. Even at my own expense. Just to make people smile. Laugh. Giggle. Or just not frown. Well, it turns out these dudes do not know what that is. Or at least are not used to hearing a chick crack a joke.

Let me tell you, it is way worse working with a bunch of socially awkward dudes than it is to work with a bunch of catty women. UGH. These dudes are so crabby all the time! Did I mention that I am one of the only females that work in this office? Yeah. Totally fun (these are the same people that cannot approach a girl outside of a fox costume, remember).

Another important note is that I have an expertise in an area that most do not. They need a lot of help in this particular area. This makes me a very in demand person at work. I understand that working in an environment of mostly men I must be careful in what I wear and how I say things. I would hate for something to be misconstrued. Unfortunately, as hard as I try, they seem to misconstrue something or make comments that are just downright awkward.

Comments like, “Rachel, Rachel. I need you. Please help? You love me, right?”

“Uh yeah. No.” I say this. I say no and I laugh at them (notice I didn’t say with, it’s definitely an AT laugh).

They, apparently, eat. this. up.

I walk out of the room and someone will tell me that “So and so said this when you walked away.”

Super. Super gross, that is. And way to make it awkward since I’m the only one that can answer these questions. UGH. Oh well. Only 5 days left after today, right?

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