Introverts or people with social anxiety, how can your workplace support you?

[Yinny]

Happy Friday!



What are some ways to help you specifically/the team achieve success? If you had a say in how management conducts anything, what would benefit you?

How do you work on your introversion/social skills to fit into the role and the team/culture?

 

[Tr0yTV]

Unlimited tequila

 

[Yinny]

Unlimited tequila

We used to do that until someone liked commenting on asses, yikes

treat a work function like a frat party brehs

 

[calixprynce]

I had some social anxiety from being institutionalized but I think working at a call center in TX cured all that

worked from 5pm - 2am , shyt was like a club

 

[Skooby]

My current workplace is terrible for anyone that is introvert or with social anxiety.

Nothing but a big meeting culture. There's meetings about meetings.

 

[KingDanz]

it doesn't

 

[Dr. Acula]

The only person who can help you is yourself. I learned this skill myself.

I was a major introvert in High School and going into young adulthood. One day I decided I didn't want to remain like that for the rest of my life and I purposely sought out situations and jobs that took me out of that comfort zone and FORCED me to adapt. It worked and while I still have some social peculiarities, being forced into situations and MAKING AN EFFORT to do things that felt uncomfortable, led to me improving in this area.

Catering to this trait and normalizing it is not a way to improve and simply prevents the person from growing beyond that. Seems the trend is to cater to people's weaknesses and instead of working with them to grow beyond them, folks want to let them stagnant and remain the same. Terrible idea.

 

[Yinny]

The only person who can help you is yourself. I learned this skill myself.

I was a major introvert in High School and going into young adulthood. One day I decided I didn't want to remain like that for the rest of my life and I purposely sought out situations and jobs that took me out of that comfort zone and FORCED me to adapt. It worked and while I still have some social peculiarities, being forced into situations and MAKING AN EFFORT to do things that felt uncomfortable, led to me improving in this area.

Catering to this trait and normalizing it is not a way to improve and simply prevents the person from growing beyond that. Seems the trend is to cater to people's weaknesses and instead of working with them to grow beyond them, folks want to let them stagnant and remain the same. Terrible idea.

Interesting take, this isn’t for me as I’m an extrovert. It was a question because complaints come and people lament cultures that don’t respect what they id as boundaries. Figured it was worth asking. Meh, thank you for at least addressed the question.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Interesting take, this isn’t for me as I’m an extrovert. It was a question because complaints come and people lament cultures that don’t respect what they id as boundaries. Figured it was worth asking. Meh, thank you for at least addressed the question.

Yeah, I just got on my soapbox about it in general due to it being a major part of my life and I know you were asking for others. No disrespect. When I said you, I meant the royal you.

I still believe that for these individuals' sake, anything you do to "help" them should be focused on improving their social skills instead of finding a way to make it more comfortable for them to remain that way because this is part of growing as a person and an adult. But I know businesses these days due to a mixture of changing social attitudes and also desire to minimize conflict are more prone to focus simply on how to make them comfortable instead of building up the individual beyond how they first came in. That is more in line with the "sensitive" nature of the world today. This is my gripping I guess. I'm getting old

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Catering to this trait and normalizing it is not a way to improve and simply prevents the person from growing beyond that. Seems the trend is to cater to people's weaknesses and instead of working with them to grow beyond them, folks want to let them stagnant and remain the same. Terrible idea.

I think you’re looking at it the wrong. I’m introverted, so I’m really quiet when I first meet people. If I like you I’ll get more chatty, but if there’s nothing special about you, I just keep it friendly with generic, “how are you” quick conversations.

But like you I’ve pushed myself out of my comfort zone. Going on a stupid amount of dates, parties, and events solo helped a lot.

I don’t think companies need to do anything different for these employees.

 

[Ski Mask]

Put me on a schedule with the least amount of people. Forcing myself to work jobs that require social interaction didnt not work, in fact it just stressed me out more and dread coming to work. Im cool working by myself.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

It's not up to my work to support me this is the real world and I adapt to it as necessary

 

[the cool]

My current workplace is terrible for anyone that is introvert or with social anxiety.

Nothing but a big meeting culture. There's meetings about meetings.

what you do?

 

[Skooby]

what you do?

Nothing since I have been working from home since March 2020. But before then, Just work on small projects to try to get noticed.

In the time since we've been remote working they pretty much let it be known I'm not what they are looking for when it comes to a promotion. So now I'm just doing my job and logging off. No more going above and beyond. I'm currently looking for another job.

 

[Rawtid]

I like hybrid work models, preferably 3 days home and 2 in office. Allows me to mentally prepare.