>Just talk to me like a I'm a fellow human, it's not that hard! I can't/don't talk to anyone at work the way I talk to "fellow humans." When I see friends fro

>Just talk to me like a I'm a fellow human, it's not that hard! I can't/don't talk to anyone at work the way I talk to "fellow humans." When I see friends from work off the clock, that's when I treat them like fellow humans. I can't talk to them like that at the office. Working in software, I am much more socially reserved and careful in my choice of words than at any of the blue collar jobs I've had. I can see the social pressure, I can read the norms. Telling me just to be me isn't going to work, I'm not _that_ socially oblivious.