I’ve honestly never worked at a workplace where it’s seemed that no one really cares, other than say my boss and a few colleagues that work directly with me every day. The truth is that I’ve cared less and less about it as time has gone on, so now, I am desensitized to it. I don’t bother saying anything more than “good morning” to the colleagues who sit around me during the day, and then “good night” at the end of the night. A few people will say “welcome back!” from my trip and being away, but no one will ask anything deeper than that except for the people I previously mentioned.

I told this to one of my friends, and she told me that she had a really great relationship with her teams to the point that they even go out for things like movies and trivia nights through the week and weekends. She said she’d be sad if she didn’t have this culture. I suppose that after a while of dealing with what I do at my own work, I’ve just become desensitized to it that I really don’t care anymore and accept it for what it is while I still choose to be here. Let’s be realistic: I don’t really come to work to work with people directly on my team. We all have our own sub teams that we work with, and clients externally that we service. We could literally all just work remotely from home every single day, and it wouldn’t have any major effect on any of us and our relationship (or lack thereof) with each other. There are advantages and disadvantages of having jobs like this where the actual touch point you have with the people at your own company is low, but at least the benefit for me now is that it’s very flexible, and I don’t need to be at the office every single day and pretend I have a relationship with people I don’t really care about.