Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.

[mark@mastodon.fixermark.com]

@evacide I gotta be honest, it was surprising to me to find out that I actually did have a threshold for alone-time and there was such a thing as too much.

Granted, I didn't find it until COVID, but still...

[camless@m.ai6yr.org]

@evacide #GoblinGang

[karstan@pdx.social]

@evacide saaaaaaaammme

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

@evacide On the other hand… "normal" is boring, right?

[superpixels@mastodon.social]

@evacide goblins of the world, unite! (at home)

[muellerwhh@sueden.social]

@evacide and as long as you are fine with it, this is the way it is supposed to be.

[evacide@hachyderm.io]

@mahryekuh To be fair, my friends are goblins, my family are goblins, and most of my co-workers are goblins. It's a goblin-rich environment.

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

@evacide I dare say that Fedi is also a goblin-rich environment, which is absolutely not a complaint.

[iamdtms@mas.to]

@mahryekuh @evacide So comfortable could be. (good)
But work steps into the daily routine. (bad)
Visiting office once a week is a happening! (good)
Timeless and unhandled workmate communications (bad)

[evacide@hachyderm.io]

@mahryekuh Goblin (complimentary).

[endolexi@social.vivaldi.net]

@evacide you know who is making things weird for me: people who won't offer you a single genuine expression, just their shoddy persona. I'll prefer straightforward weirdos over those regrettable performances any day.

[jmccyoung@mstdn.social]

@superpixels @evacide I was about to respond with this!

[psh@infosec.exchange]

@evacide Some days I'm part goblin, other days part welcoming hobbit...

Most days I dream there was a national holiday where it was acceptable to walk around town in hooded cloaks and trade trinkets...

[electricbraindump@mementomori.social]

@evacide I've come to embrace my goblin side, but it's taken me a while.

[ttscoff@hachyderm.io]

@superpixels @evacide I make every zoom meeting weird, and I’m *pretty* sure I was that way *before* working from home for 20 years.

[joe@toot.works]

@evacide Same.

[joshg@mathstodon.xyz]

@evacide relatable. also, strangely gives me hope for working from home

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@evacide Wait. I have read this, and suddenly my life makes sense.

Thank you.

[stefan_s_from_h@mastodon.social]

@evacide https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/quotes/?item=qt0334680&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@evacide I think that you might have missed a word out both times.

"Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without *them* making it weird."