This gal at work doesn't like me but I don't know why?

[Mortimer]

It is unrealistic to expect all coworkers to like you. High expectations lead to high disappointments. Learning how to handle that sort of ambivalence(or worse) is part of becoming a productive employee. You should be polite and professional to her. Don't make things worse. And most of all, don't let the resentment you are forming darken the other areas of your life.

They sometimes come around after a bit.

Don't let it bother you, because whatever it means doesn't really matter to you anyways. Could be any number of things but it doesn't matter. Don't look at her, don't talk to her, don't talk about her, concern yourself with things that do matter to you.

This

[Hexachordia]

It depends on what kind of work place, if in a common restaurant and something like that, it sounds like to happen eventually, someone is going to bully you mentally, you can only and have to accept who they are, there are friendly ones as there could be otherwise. You are growing up.

[BakersfieldChimp]

Why do you care what a high school kid thinks about you? My relatives, who are teenagers, can't wait for me to leave family gatherings so that they can finally have fun. You, me, Frank, and the Chimp are at an age where we cramp the Zoomers' style. Did you want your dad and your uncle to go to your friends' parties with you?

"Rent free in one's head" is misused more often than used correctly. Resentment needs to be a part of it. This is a perfect example of where it can be used correctly. The 17-year-old girl is off doing 17-year-old girl things. She is undoubtedly giving him little or no thought and yet Richy is disturbed enough by her that he is obsessing to the point of starting a thread to complain about the situation.

[Incal]

I would think she didn't like me because she is kind of aloof towards me. I think she finds me repulsive. She is aloof with most people anyway, but she seems extra unfriendly with me.

Some times she stares at me. The other gals like me, and they talk to me. She never talks to me . When I ordered some food during break the other day, she walked towards me like she was going to hand it to me, but then proceeded to put it on the counter. When I told her "thank you" she just replied "mhmmm".

I don't see why she is this way towards me . I do find her attractive, but she is only 17 years old and I think she is a bit young for me in that way. I don't do anything. The other girls her age treat me like a human being. I just don't see why she acts this way. Is it because I remind her of her father?

I'll try to ignore this for now but normally kids are growing more and more antisocial. Even here, where people used to be really open and talkative I've started to notice kids are becoming more and more reclusive. In 50 years this world will become planet autist.

[Anglo-Celtic]

"Rent free in one's head" is misused more often than used correctly. Resentment needs to be a part of it. This is a perfect example of where it can be used correctly. The 17-year-old girl is off doing 17-year-old girl things. She is undoubtedly giving him little or no thought and yet Richy is disturbed enough by her that he is obsessing to the point of starting a thread to complain about the situation.

The brother's in his forties. I would have cringed at myself if I would have cared about this when I was in my twenties!

[Anglo-Celtic]

Don't let it bother you, because whatever it means doesn't really matter to you anyways. Could be any number of things but it doesn't matter. Don't look at her, don't talk to her, don't talk about her, concern yourself with things that do matter to you.

He's in his forties! Do you fret when teen boys give you the cold shoulder?

[Incal]

The brother's in his forties. I would have cringed at myself if I would have cared about this when I was in my twenties!

As the Colonel would say: 'He's a man child' though.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

The brother's in his forties. I would have cringed at myself if I would have cared about this when I was in my twenties!

Why would anyone in their 40s care about what a teenager thinks?

Some people think RB is a troll. No, this is actually him.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

As the Colonel would say: 'He's a man child' though.

The very definition of a man-child.

[BakersfieldChimp]

Why would anyone in their 40s care about what a teenager thinks?

Some people think RB is a troll. No, this is actually him.

I remember an incident of needing approval when I had a part-time job putting myself through college. There are no brownie points for style in this world and all of us go through growing pains when we first enter the workforce. Just because someone postpones entering the workforce until his forties, doesn't make him exempt from needing to figure out how to do it when he gets there.