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“What Are Examples Of ‘Being Picked Last In Gym Class’ As An Adult?” (37 Responses)
Have you ever experienced that sad feeling of loneliness when you are picked last for a game at school during team splitting? And it's not even because you are a poor athlete—you just have no friends, so you stand last in the middle of the gym, in the crosshairs of other people's eyes, and think about... I don't know what, but definitely not about something good.
I think many people have experienced this. However, childhood passes, and unpleasant flashbacks from it often stay with us until gray touches our hair (and even longer). And many people in this viral online thread recall such situations from their lives, and we, Bored Panda, have collected a selection of the most touching stories for you here.
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#1
Finding out your “friends” went out on the town. They never called or texted.
Schmebulock 8 months ago
You have to figure out if you have s****y friends or if you are the s****y friend.
Debbie 8 months ago
This is the case for many of them posts. More context is needed as it can be both ways.
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StankleBerry 8 months ago
When you go on holiday with “friends” and they f**k off to the beach without you. Then gaslight you for being upset about it.
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#2
Being sat at the randoms table at a wedding.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
My brother and his wife did this to me at their wedding. The only people I knew were my parents and they were sat somewhere else. I know why they did it - there was a single woman who didn't know anyone either (bride's stepfather's niece) and they hoped we'd get along. She was nice, but the bride's random cousins who were also at our table were not. The whole event was pretty miserable for me and I ended up going back to the hotel early. I'll never tell them that though - they had an amazing time and that's what's important.
Caroline Nagel 8 months ago
Not getting a +1 when they know you will not know any of the other invitees.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 8 months ago
Happened at the last wedding I went to of a close family friend, but not as bad as it sounds. My schedule at the time was still up in the air, so I was probably the last confirmed guest, while also being a +1 and not a regular invitee. I was put on the table in the back with people I sort of knew. However, a spot opened up at a closer table with my actual friends and family who RSVP'd earlier, so it worked out in the end.
Haley Futch 8 months ago
Being the only one from the friend group invited as a guest rather than in the bridal party.
#3
When a group of people suddenly stop listening to you talking.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
I'll add: When people constantly interupt you, and the person you're talking to gives them priority every time.
Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
"Stop listening..." sort of implies that they even started listening in the first place
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Very true. When I talk is like hearing the rain. No one really listen
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Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Maybe when it happens to you, but that's not always the case.
Load More Replies...A few days ago, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, which now has over 8.8K upvotes and around 3.1K various comments. It has stories, memories and discussions. The question, "What are examples of ‘being picked last in gym class’ as an adult?" from user u/Infamous-Echo-3949 in fact turned out to be truly important for netizens and worthy of their close attention. And for us, of course, too.
#4
When everyone goes out for walk/coffee/lunch at work and no one asking if you want to join.
DennyS (denzoren) 8 months ago
I actually like eating alone. I've done it since way back in high school. Probably not by choice at first lol but I've grown to like it.
Rali Meyer 8 months ago
Yeah, like my fav meme: Guys, are we still going out for lunch. - We just came back. Didn't realize you were missing.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
My actual work-place has too much of team-celebration for me. Yearly 2-3 occasions. It's more, than I'm comfortable with. And will have one more in May, with the Germany's executive leader of our hotel-chain, because, based on our results, we are the 'The team of the year in 2024'. I'm just hoping, that I have to work on those days. And no, I'm not an introvert. But work is work. If I need friends, I'll look for them on another place.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago (edited)
When I actually worked someplace with a set lunch time, they would make mass orders to local restaurants for delivery. Occasionally, I would get asked if I wanted to order something, usually when they were short of the minimum requirement for delivery.
Debbie 8 months ago
Maybe they have never asked anyone and all the others are extroverst who just jumped up at the sight of one of the going out and asking: can I join? The original says: "sure". And then more people invite themselves along. But yes, It's bad manners to not invite the people of your small team. If it's a bit team/group/department then I get it, then it doesn't work quite as well.
StankleBerry 8 months ago
My colleagues lunch together in smaller groups, I’m never asked to join. I’m not one of those “can I join you” beggars.
Leah Harmon 8 months ago
This. I found out that my team has daily walks that no one ever asked me to join. When I jokingly pointed this out, literally no one laughed. So it was definitely a choice. I shouldn't be hurt, but as a kid who was shunned by peers in school, turns out work life is just middle school all over again.
#5
Brother's b-day - brother gets celebration
My b-day - brother gets celebration.
Doctor Strange 8 months ago
My birthday - plan celebration, get rsvps, pour heart and soul into getting it ready, have people then say they got invited to something else and are going to that instead, celebration gets cancelled.
Leah 8 months ago
This happened to me in 2nd grade. I invited almost my whole class to my birthday party. Another girl who was popular was born the day after me so she had her party the same day. Only 3 people showed up and we weren't even close. Even the person I thought of as my best friend went to the other girl's party.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Nope. Just siblings with a tiny age difference... Always happens
Load More Replies... StankleBerry 8 months ago
Organised a bike ride with friends in secondary school. Woke up that morning in absolute agony with period pain. I pulled myself together and went to the meeting spot. Not one of them showed up or even bothered to at least phone and lie they couldn’t make it. The following school day the faces when they realised every single one of them has f****d me over. I never organised an outing again.
Spittnimage 8 months ago
My sister who was two years older than me also got a present on my birthday or she'd have a tantrum.
#6
"Let's get a group photo together!" *hands you the phone*.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
What you do is say can we get another photo with me in it? Have someone else take the picture.
Of course, in the era of the Internet and social networks, these feelings have changed significantly. Now, while we often replace live human communication with numerous chats and video calls, and you can work and live a full life without even leaving your apartment, various awkward moments associated with direct communication, of course, go away.
But, as they say, a holy place is never empty, and new situations appear. When, for example, you wrote to someone in a messenger a long time ago, the message is marked as read, and the person is online—but there is no reaction from them. Offended? That's the word!
#7
You can come if you want to.
Doctor Strange 8 months ago
There is a HUGE difference between "You can come if you want to," and "We'd like you to come, if you would like to"
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R. McTavish 8 months ago
The hell? This is the best way to invite me to things. Saying "hope we'll see you there!" Just makes me stress about it. Give my agency over whether I go or not, implicitly, as a courtesy.
#8
Getting invited only on condition of being the designated driver.
Sally-Ann 8 months ago
A friend - a non drinker - got invited to afterwork drinks. Declined at first because she wasn't really friends with them but was talked into it. Ended up having a nice time and staying longer than intended. A few hours later she and tipsy collegues leave the pub and she starts walking to the bus stop. "Where are you going?" "The bus" "Nah, my car's just round the corner, we'll take that" "Should you be driving after all that wine?" "Ah, that's why you're here - you're the DD." Tosses keys at my friend. "I don't drive" Tosses keys back and walks off to bus
DennyS (denzoren) 8 months ago
Been there lol it's like a toddler rodeo when everyone is drunk and you got to get everyone home.
#9
I worked at my last job for 4/5 years. It was customary when someone left the job to get them a card or a cake or something (it was a bakery so cake was very accessible lol). I was personally the one who bought the card/got everyone to sign multiple times but when I left I didn’t get a card or anything. So that kinda sucked.
Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
Translation: I made it customary and organized that colleagues leaving the job receive a card and a cake. As I went away, nobody cared to maintain this tradition.
VNES101 8 months ago
Yup. Sounds like that person worked with a bunch of lazy folks.
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StankleBerry 8 months ago
This is what happens when to me. I’m vegan, so when I bake for people I bake a vegan cake and everybody is amazed it tastes like “normal” cake. But when it’s my birthday I do not expect a homemade cake , I can appreciate if you aren’t vegan the idea of baking a vegan cake is daunting. Instead I get nothing. Not even a store bought cake.
Janice Strickland 8 months ago
My card from my last job someone wrote "I hope you get punched in the face" glad I read it 3 days after my last day.
Lynda Loyacono 8 months ago
I find cake as a reward for hard work very condescending. I have had colleagues show genuine disdain and disappointment if I shouldn't mention that I had a birthday just because they wanted f*****g cake. F**k cake in the work place. I'm not a f*****g child.
There are also situations when people whom you sincerely considered to be your friends, or at least good acquaintances, go on a picnic somewhere out of town en masse—and they don't even bother to invite you, let alone inform you about it. It happens when you sadly realize that in fact you were needed by people only because of some of your qualities—professional or financial.
#10
When you're the one that always has to drop behind when the path is too narrow for three.
Lotekguy 8 months ago (edited)
Or always being in the back seat when there are three in the car.
Susan Reid Smith 8 months ago
Or when another group is coming the opposite way. It surprised someone when I didn't give in.
#11
When you quit a job because you're overworked and they hire two people to fill your position.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
It happened once to me. I knew, if I'm quiting, they will loose a part of their income. But I also knew, they are too cheap to hire someone new, what will deal with their shít. They didn't pay enough for it. Therefore I was quiting, after all. It didn't sink them, but they lost money, and also reputation, with the quality going down.
Skp2MyLou 8 months ago
"...they will lose part of their income." And also... "...who will deal with..."
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 8 months ago
Yep. I decided to retire because I just couldn't keep up with the ever-increasing workload anymore and my requests for help were always ignored. When I left, they divided up my work amongst 3 people.
Christopher Beckford 8 months ago
That's nothing! Left one management job totally stressed and burned-out because of all the "required duties". 1 year later there were 10 people doing the various parts of the role that I had to do alone.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I had a female friend many years ago. Was working for this one company. She end up quiting. They had to hire at least 3 more people to do her job.
#12
You only get invited to dinner/a night out once the inviter has already arranged it with someone else. Never "when are you free to come over" always "Bob's coming to dinner Friday, if you want to join us". The kicker is if Bob cancels and then you get "dinners cancelled - Bob can't make it".
Laura Gillette 8 months ago
When you are invited over for dinner at a friend's house and when you get there, there are other people there your friend didn't tell you were coming. And they spend all their time talking to those friends and everyone ignores you.
"In fact, friendship in adulthood is not only selfless communication, it's also a choice of a person based on some qualities useful to you," says Irina Matveeva, a psychologist and certified NLP specialist, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. "In the end, if you are interested in communicating with someone—this is also a useful quality, isn't it?
"Trust, loyalty and fidelity are incredibly important in adolescence—you can have a huge social circle, in real life and online, but only a few people will be of real importance to you. And if there are no such people, then in adulthood it's a serious problem anyway."
#13
People talking about party plans in front of you, but not inviting you.
Laura Gillette 8 months ago
This happened to me in high school. The (granted somewhat large) "friend" group I ate lunch with; one of them was throwing a huge halloween party at their house. I was never invited. Several of them talked directly to me about how excited they were about their costume choices. At first I thought maybe they just didn't know I hadn't been invited, but the day after the party, they didn't ask me why I wasn't there.
86 8 months ago
Oh yes happens to me a lot not with just friends but with family too. I'm really the only female that works in my family all year. Both of my sisters work with schools so they get breaks and such, my mom is retired, I have a cousin who is retired and a couple other cousins who work part time or don't work at all. They'll get together for lunches always on a Tuesday or Thursday or just a weekday in general never on a weekend and I'm on the group texts reading of them trying to arrange plans, I eventually was like start your own text I work. Another instance I had friends that got engaged, and apparently there was a surprise engagement party that I had no idea about, it was weeks after when I found out about the party, after that I just stopped socializing with them.
Otto Katz 8 months ago
Good manners dictates you don't talk about parties in front of people who are not invited.
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Leaving you on "seen" for a week while responding to other mutual friends' messages.
Debbie 8 months ago
Two sided coin here. Also depends on what message you have sent. Some messages are easy and quick to reply to. Others you want to take time for, to sit down. But then you forget about it as dozen other messages go to the top. Or maybe it's not your (plural) best communication styles. There are friends I can't app with. Or maybe they are not ready for another trauma dumping session... (I'm no therapist!). I'm not good with these one line posts - too much context and nuances gone which is so important.
#15
My friends not calling me to do a 5k because im too fat and slow. "They figured I didnt want to do it".
When I found out, I was so insulted, I lost 100lbs and ran the 5k 6 months later lol.
"The skills of adaptation to new people are actually an incredibly useful thing at any age, and in any case, getting attached to one or several people throughout your entire life, disappearing into them, is not always very good.
"Because, for example, these friendly feelings may not be mutual. In any case, you shouldn't withdraw into yourself if there's an opportunity to find a new social circle, new people who will be important to you," Irina sums up.
By the way, some experts advise analyzing yourself in such situations—maybe it's our communication features, or the underestimation or overestimation of ourselves that prevent us from making friends? In the end, understanding yourself is always a universal tool that helps in most cases. Because the most important person for us, and the person who will always be with us, is actually ourselves.
#16
When you've met someone more than once but they still say "hey, nice to meet you!".
Susie Elle 8 months ago
I've done that. My brain isn't designed to remember faces I've seen once before months ago. I feel bad every time!
Lotekguy 8 months ago
Note to all the people I've done that to: It's not you, it's my own shortcoming.Don't take it personally. Sorry if you were offended.
C.Douglas 8 months ago
Why not find another phrase like "good to see you" that works whether you've met them or not? This is a totally avoidable problem even if you can't remember a single name/face.
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
I always tell them upfront, I won't remember their name. Brain damage 20 years ago and names just don't stick unless I see them a lot.
StankleBerry 8 months ago
That’s not terrible. Some people just can’t maintain names in their brains. I’m one of them. I try my best, but you can say your name to me and if my ADHD brain is overloaded I’ll forget your name before the last syllable has left your mouth.
Fire Singer 8 months ago
To me this depends, someone I don't interact with often can forget my name that's ok. But, I had a boss I'd worked with for 8 years, 8 whole years, I'd even invited him to go visit my dads work (he did military stuff that I thought my boss would find cool), and my boss still called me the wrong name. Not a variation of my name, not a nickname, full on completely wrong name. That one hurt a bit.
Herringbone 8 months ago
I was introduced to someone at least three times - I knew he had forgotten me because I was of no use to his career. He is a very minor orchestral conductor - like about three recordings available.
#17
Nobody told me or my sister that grandma died because they didn't want us to tell [our] dad because they didn't want him at the funeral.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
At least, my mother told me, that my grandma is in hospital, and probably won't last long, max. one more day. The problem was, that my grandma was in hospital because of a stroke for more than a week at that point. My mother didn't say anything about it, although we were speaking in that time. My grandma was asking to see me for days. I was 600 km away. My b.itch of a mother was waiting for the latest time to reach me with the news. I was arriving half a day too late. I never forgave her. All this telenovella-drama just because, back in time, my mother was sleeping with the wrong guy, having me. My grandma wasn't happy, but she took and raised me for years, while my mother was at college, and really loved me. After moving out from my grandparent's house, I spent all of my school-vacations with them for years. So, I didn't speak to my mother for 15 years.I don't even know, if she is still alive. And I don't even care. Hope, that her petty revenge worth it in her mind.
SkyyCaramba 8 months ago
I'm so sorry, you didn't deserve that, you're grandma was a wonderful person. (I keep seeing your comments here)
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KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
My mother "forgot" to tell me my grandfather died. She went to her grave without me forgiving her for that.
#18
Being “forgotten” to be invited to the corporate lunch.
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#19
There's the WhatsApp group you're all in, but most people are in another different group ...
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Oh, I dodget this bullet by not having a smartphone. So, no WhatsApp. It turns out, that there are really no emergencies, and what is really important, they can e-mail you, send you an sms, call you or speak in person. I was saving myself from a lot of unnecessary dramas both in private and work.
AngelWingsYT 8 months ago
I kinda have this on discord. We have one gorup chat with sll us and another minus 2 ppl. Its mainly to vent on political stuff without a fight breaking out
#20
Your class forgetting to invite you to your ten year reunion.
MalayDragon 8 months ago
I got invited to my 10 year high school reunion back when I still used Facebook, I laughed and declined immediately. It's been 10 years of blissful no contact with the people who spent 4 years of high school tormenting, bullying, and physically assaulting me. What exactly makes them think I want to reunite with those people and memories. If they wanted to apologise for their behaviour, they've had 10 years to reach out.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
I'm sure I'll be invited again for our 30th, but I won't go. When they were preparing plans for our $20 it was basically the homecoming court who ran the show. When I found out they were trying to make a profit off of their classmates, even going to such extremes as saying, "If you meet up with anyone from our class outside of our event who is not a part of the reunion you will be asked to leave the reunion." I spilled the beans on that one so they had a hard time trying to get anyone to come.
Panda McPandaface 8 months ago
There is not one person from my school years I would ever want to see again.
Herringbone 8 months ago
There is one with whom I am in touch almost daily, but I wouldn't attend a school reunion because the people I would like to see again are also the kind of people who wouldn't attend a school reunion.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
I don't go to reunions. I'd rather forget my classmates as they were.
#21
Being seated at the kids table during family events because there's no room.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 8 months ago
I'd rather sit with the kids. They're talking about minecraft or whatever while the adults are arguing about politics.
Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
Nah, it's awesome! You're either the "cool uncle" or a sufficiently-older cousin that you get uncle honors anyway!
#22
Not having a friend group chat. All my coworkers mention their group chats with their friends. Why am I not close enough friends with people to have a group chat? I tell myself maybe I’m just old but I’m only 40.
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
I have one group chat with two other friends and we just use it to meet up or share random news. Being in a group chat where people were constantly texting sounds exhausting and annoying.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Same here. My 2 best local friends and I do exactly that. I have a family group chat too but we don't use it often. I have no desire to read a ton of messages every day.
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
I would have felt myself more stressed, if included in any group chat with people I know IRL. Maybe, because in my teens, at the dawn of the internet, group chats were for different multiplayer games.That's for what I used them: communicating with "pablo23"' from Spain for a few months in a game. With our friends we were connected in person, max. by a phone call.
Paulina 8 months ago
Maybe it's cultural (me - Eastern Europe), but I don't know many people that actually have group chats 🤷♀️ Unless is something specific, like an event, people don't want to be in a notification nightmare where they might not be even interested in half of the things being said. We're more direct.
Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
Might be a generational thing. I'm 50, have friends, but we only use text to say "Hey are you around? I'll call ya."
christie tondu 8 months ago
I'm mid 40s...the group chats I'm in are either immediate family, or immediate family plus an aunt, a cousin, etc...i cannot stand group chats with a ton of people...I have cousins do it with like 15 different people and I just nope out...
Debbie 8 months ago
This is not a "measurement". I have a friend group chat but we hardly chat in it, once in a while to try to meet up together. Otherwise it's mostly one on one conversations. I don't have a big friend group who all know eachother, so obviously no big group chat. But what is stopping you from creating a group chat yourself?
#23
One time my friend called me and said she made a box of cookies for me but I have to pick it up at another friend's house.
I was so happy thinking that she must have really valued our friendship to make a box of cookies for me.
And then I went to facebook and found out that they (my friend and the one that has the cookies box) had a party where they made cookies and I wasnt invited. The box that she wanted to gift me was hers. She made it then forgot to bring it home but cbf to come back to pick it up. I just happened to live near the house where they held the party.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago (edited)
You mean "ex-friend", right? I just can't imagine, how one can be so a cruel sociopath? No, you don't have to like people, no you don't have to please people. But in the same time, you are a POS , if you are hurting them with a purpose. I cut off a "friend-like" someone the moment she told me, she was going to dates with a kind of test in her mind. No matter, what her date-partner said, he likes, or how really funny he was, she was bullying them on different levels "to killl the light from their eyes, so I'll know, they'll do everything what I want". She was a 10/10 woman physically, but also a soulless, empty shell of a human being as a narcissistic sociopath. And she was very offended, when I told her this in her face. No gentle cutting off ... directly to her face. The first time, I saw true emotions from her. Killing someone's pure, innoocent joy just from spite is the biggest red flag for someone not being a decent human being.
#24
Not getting an invitation for the wedding, only the reception afterwards. While the rest of the friend group get invited, including their partners.
Francesca Annoni 8 months ago
It's worse when they only invite you to the ceremony and not the reception.
DennyS (denzoren) 8 months ago
I agree, I've been invited to the reception only before and it was the better part. The ceremony was limited due to space.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Or when you discover there has been a wedding when they posted the pics.. even if the bride lived in your house when she got evicted.
Schmebulock 8 months ago
Always RSVP yes and then don't show. They will most likely have to account for you in the headcount/cost.
#25
No one replied your message in a whatsapp group and they carry on with other conversations.
ILoveMySon 8 months ago (edited)
There seem to be a lot of issues with WhatsApp exclusions. I am glad I am not on it.
Fire Singer 8 months ago
I'm seriously considering next time my phone is not supported by the carrier not getting another smartphone. Would be an interesting switch.
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Being invited to an event on the day - an event that has been weeks or months in the planning. Cos if invited on the day, you know you’re just making up numbers. A seat filler.
Hell'n Damnation 8 months ago
That's when you decline because you already have plans, even if you haven't.
#27
Cancelling on you constantly would be my best guess.
Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
Apparently at least once someone didn't cancel.
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 8 months ago
It depends on the reason. I have a good friend that started cancelling on me whenever I wanted to go anywhere new, or that was more than a short distance from her house. If I did get her to go, she would have obvious signs of anxiety and make up odd reasons to go home. I finally realized that she was probably developing agoraphobia. So now, it's lunch at the corner deli and no more trips out of town.
Charlotte 8 months ago
Have had this happen - turns out friend was embarrassed to admit they couldn't afford to go out for lunch. Once they explained, we started making different plans. It's not always about you.
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Being invited to a party, showing up and the host asks why you are there.
Damned_Cat 8 months ago
I've witnessed a couple of times where one partner invited extra people to their party without telling the other partner or realizing that it had been planned for a certain number of people. It is awkward.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Well, if you weren't invited by the host then you weren't invited.
DennyS (denzoren) 8 months ago
That's quite rude of the host though. Must be a better way to ask something like that.
#29
Anything with volunteering and being told that they're full.
Ron Man 8 months ago
This is stupid. Just because you're "volunteering" doesn't mean they have a place for you to volunteer at. If they can take 4 volunteers and you're #5, why would they take you? So you can stand around and get in the way?
Geekymummy 8 months ago
But it is the adult equivalent of being picked last. Being picked last has to happen to someone. They're not saying I should get to volunteer no matter what, they're saying it sucks to have missed out.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Or that they are expecting for someone else to fullfil the group... And they "will call you"
#30
When a couple asked if you wanna come to their wedding. "It's spontaneous, but we got some cancel.".
#31
For two consecutive days during break one of my colleagues happened to sit down at our table right before we all had to get up and leave. It felt like we were deliberately bullying him but it was just coincidence 😅.
Haley Futch 8 months ago
This is funny because there's been times when I've sat down with coworkers because I feel like I'm being rude if I leave, just for them to be finishing moments later. I always think, "oh thank God"
#32
I do CrossFit and there have been numerous times I’m the only person who doesn’t have a partner for a workout and I get forced as someone’s third or with someone who is at a vastly different level. Feels no different from it happening growing up and is still demoralizing.
Rali Meyer 8 months ago
Yes, like at after school soccer team selection, last three: We take Mike and you can have both, Mole and Frogeye. But, nobody sat on the bench!
Brian Droste 8 months ago
When I was in school there were team selections, it seem like I was at times picked last.
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StankleBerry 8 months ago
This happened to me constantly when I was boxing. But I had the last laugh because then I got to spar and do pad work with the trainer which meant I got pushed extra hard 💪🏾
#33
Being single for the greater part of your adult life by far.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Yeah. Its worse when consistently all your ex partners just happen to marry the next one after your in a couple of weeks, when all you were getting was a "situationship"
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago (edited)
It's amazing! But okay, also not for everyone. My last relationship ended, because he insisted, that we should sleep together. Like in those Hallmark movies.
christie tondu 8 months ago
At this point, being single is intentional. Why waste my time on some app when all any of those people want is s*x? ...it also helped me realize that I'm like, 99% asexual...
#34
Being at a company 20 years and interviewing for, but never being actually considered for a promotion….
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Change job. I guess, you are a genX, and we were still thaught by our boomer parents, that we have to be loyal to a workplace/company. I was never a good listener to BS. So,my dad was freaking out every few years when I was changing jobs, and even professions.
William Reichold 8 months ago
I'm a boomer I'm 62 I left more than one job because I was passed over one job I trained three people for position I was promised as district manager for convenience store company I trained three of them by the time I realized that the third one was coming along I just quit so don't blame it on being a boomer have some self respect that's non-generational
Load More Replies... #35
A job application telling you they’ll consider you in the future.
Roberta Surprenant 8 months ago
When you get that reply, then two weeks later the job is listed again but no callback.
#36
When a coworker ignores your friend request on Facebook but they’re friends with all your other coworkers.
tori Ohno 8 months ago
You bet. In fact, I'd probably avoid friend groups in the workplace and simply just do my job. Work and friends don't mix.
Load More Replies... Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Why TF would you want to be facebook friends with your coworkers? My coworkers are like family, but I blocked them all on my first day.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 8 months ago
I have no interest on having coworkers on any of my socials.
Kat Alison 8 months ago
I won’t friend coworkers on social media until we’re both working somewhere else.
AngelWingsYT 8 months ago
Never mix social n work. Thats just ASKING for a bad time. I seen ppl het fired over that sh*t. Lotta s**t talking others, lotta questionable stuff said.
#37
When your friend from childhood you talk to calls you and then regularly right after says they're getting a phone call and have to go, because it's the person they called first who is calling them back and they'd rather talk to that person.
Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
If you know who the other friend is, you can call him and see if he'll ditch the person who called you! ;D
86 8 months ago
Oh I had a friend that's a PI and she was investigating a company not far from me, like literally 30 minutes, and I'd text her to see how things were going and for dinner she'd blow me off most of the time, then one time her computer was going haywire and she texted me, because my husband is an IT guy. I said contact your company, they have IT people that get paid.
brett curtis 8 months ago
Omg that's what happens!?! I always felt something off after fifteen mins of waiting with no call
What do you think ?
Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
Thankfully I grew up in the 70s so the mechanisms for being snubbed were more limited than they are now; it would have made my low self-esteem even worse
VNES101 8 months ago
In college my "friend group" would go out and I'd hear about it the next day. "Oh there wasn't enough room in the car". It used to sting. Now I have a VERY small circle. With larger groups there are always side cliques.
SkyyCaramba 8 months ago
i have three friends, none of whom know each other. i wanna introduce them, but friend A I've known since I was 2 friend B I spend time with daily friend C is super introverted. it'd be fun though.
Load More Replies... Laura Gillette 8 months ago
When you are walking with the group in an unfamiliar place, and they all stop and wait if someone else has to do something (tie their shoe, sees something interesting they want to investigate, buy something real quick in a shop), but if *you* stop because you need or want to do something, they don't wait for you. Then you have to run to catch up. And you don't want to walk around on your own because you get lost easily (this was before smartphones & everyone having GPS in their pocket, or I would have just walked around alone).
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
The one time I felt like that was my old company would buy baseball tickets for the employees to attend a game. I was very close to a few people at work and was cool/friends with most everyone else. But when it came to this game, I always ended going alone (but sitting with everyone at the game) and kind of just hanging by myself because everyone else had formed their own groups to go together and sit together and whatnot. I'm fine being alone but this annual event did make me feel a little sad each time.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
When people go around being extremely rude to you but then they talk to you as nothing happened some weeks later.
Brittney Floyd 8 months ago
I'm 39 and have 3 children. My last child I had at 30 and he is disabled and needs 24 hour care which I provide. I have 2 bestfriends. One for 27 years and the other for 12 years. While I know they love me and my son I find that I'm left out of alot of things in their lives simply because of my son diagnosis and me being his caregiver. Everything from their successes and advances in life to hangout time and trips that we used to always do.
lauren hughes 8 months ago
When you are the eldest child and your parents saying "We had to try again because we wanted a boy/girl" (whichever is their preferred gender)
Ron Man 8 months ago
Most of these seem to be people just thinking acquaintances are BFFs, or something app related. Apps are never reality, no matter how you think of them. Acquaintances are never BFFs, and if this is an ongoing thing for you through out your life, there's a chance that the problem is you. I see so much negative people online that I can't help but think that those are the people not getting invited to things. Because here it is kids: Nobody likes having Debbie Downer around.
Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
Thankfully I grew up in the 70s so the mechanisms for being snubbed were more limited than they are now; it would have made my low self-esteem even worse
VNES101 8 months ago
In college my "friend group" would go out and I'd hear about it the next day. "Oh there wasn't enough room in the car". It used to sting. Now I have a VERY small circle. With larger groups there are always side cliques.
SkyyCaramba 8 months ago
i have three friends, none of whom know each other. i wanna introduce them, but friend A I've known since I was 2 friend B I spend time with daily friend C is super introverted. it'd be fun though.
Load More Replies... Laura Gillette 8 months ago
When you are walking with the group in an unfamiliar place, and they all stop and wait if someone else has to do something (tie their shoe, sees something interesting they want to investigate, buy something real quick in a shop), but if *you* stop because you need or want to do something, they don't wait for you. Then you have to run to catch up. And you don't want to walk around on your own because you get lost easily (this was before smartphones & everyone having GPS in their pocket, or I would have just walked around alone).
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
The one time I felt like that was my old company would buy baseball tickets for the employees to attend a game. I was very close to a few people at work and was cool/friends with most everyone else. But when it came to this game, I always ended going alone (but sitting with everyone at the game) and kind of just hanging by myself because everyone else had formed their own groups to go together and sit together and whatnot. I'm fine being alone but this annual event did make me feel a little sad each time.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
When people go around being extremely rude to you but then they talk to you as nothing happened some weeks later.
Brittney Floyd 8 months ago
I'm 39 and have 3 children. My last child I had at 30 and he is disabled and needs 24 hour care which I provide. I have 2 bestfriends. One for 27 years and the other for 12 years. While I know they love me and my son I find that I'm left out of alot of things in their lives simply because of my son diagnosis and me being his caregiver. Everything from their successes and advances in life to hangout time and trips that we used to always do.
lauren hughes 8 months ago
When you are the eldest child and your parents saying "We had to try again because we wanted a boy/girl" (whichever is their preferred gender)
Ron Man 8 months ago
Most of these seem to be people just thinking acquaintances are BFFs, or something app related. Apps are never reality, no matter how you think of them. Acquaintances are never BFFs, and if this is an ongoing thing for you through out your life, there's a chance that the problem is you. I see so much negative people online that I can't help but think that those are the people not getting invited to things. Because here it is kids: Nobody likes having Debbie Downer around.
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