People that treat you bad

At work there were people that I greeted "Good afternoon!" and they turned back their faces!

People that I used to try to chat while taking cofee on the break and they just say: ahan, ahan, and then another person appear and they start to chat.

I've ben social phobic for all my life and I've been taking meds and I was doing therapy, but that was too much to handle!

Rude people really sucks, I'm too sensitive.

yea I absolutely hate it, especially when I say hi to someone.. and more than once, and they still do not respond and just look at you with a cold serious and absolutely belittling look.

Happens all the time

i just would like to know whats their problem?

i've learned to not say anything until someone says something to me. even if they're looking at me to say something first, i'll just look back at them. that kind of stuff you went through happened to me a long time ago and i got so sick of it so i trained myself to just not say anything until i'm spoken to. i'm sorry you had to go through that though. you're right and i say it all the time. rude people suck.

to add to your list, another thing that gets me is when people say "hi, how are you?" and i say "fine, how are you?" and they say nothing. all that tells me is that they didn't give a damn about what i said. so now, i just say "fine" and move on, i don't care about how they're doing lol. sure i feel bad about it and i obsess over how rude i was for not saying it back, but that's better in my mind than saying it and getting no reply. i live in one of the rudest cities in the US. i'm surrounded by rude people and it really does suck. they're so rude they've got me being rude back just to protect myself. i wanna get outta here so bad!

Hey Klaus,

soounds frustrating. I dont kknow the full background of your situation (eg how long you've been in your work environment/how familiar collegues are with your shy/social phobic nature) but sometimes people are reluctant to welcoming change. People like familiarity and perhaps they're taking longer to adjust to the new you. also, perhaps you could try experimenting with some other greetings (if you already havent) or convo topics?

There's always a lot of akward silence during tea breaks where i work but when someone starts talking about a current issue in the media.. it always gets people yapping on with such enthusiasm and interest.

not sure where you work but are there other people in the company you can work socialising with? Like customers or clients?

another thing i wanted to say is.. If you continually get shut down by the same people. well, fuck them. sounds like they're not worth your time of day anyway. if anything, i just like to look at it all as a learning experience. dealing with people like that only makes you stronger.

I make an effort to say good morning to everybody at work and goodbye at the end of the day. One of my virtues is my good manners and cheerful attitude. In fact i think i am the first most of the time to initiate a ''Hello'' to my workmates.

I kind of feel offended when a workmate greets another workmate who is standing right next to me, and addresses him by his name, yet it's as if i am invisible, and i always make an effort to him. I may be paranoid but it seems to me that if one o'r two people i work with have someone else to talk to i'm virtually invisible.