bored at work

Though I usually am and enjoy the free rein access to the Internet- there's another reason for it lately.

My co-workers have stopped talking to me. I'm not saying we were chummy before but the well of kindness seems to have dried up.

I think this is because I'm leaving.  "Well duh!" you may think but that is the paradox of this place. We're a 'team' but we work very independently. When you take a vacation it's great because you will come back to nothing. There's no piling things in people's boxes here- we are customer oriented to the 1000th degree. The flip side of this is that when you are not on vacation or otherwise present when others are not (ie someone resigns) you have that much more work to do. I mean, I find it silly that I would be disliked because I'm leaving the state but that appears to be the case.

It's all the more odd because last week at this exact time, the co-worker I like the best gathered us all up and we went out to Chili's (the only place near work) for an after work thing. We've never done this and it was in the spirit of wishing me farewell. It was awkward and because I don't drink I ate a bunch of spinach/artichoke dip. This helped neither the mood nor my waistline.

I suppose I'm leaving the way I came in- mistrusting and disbelieving the office atmosphere of false cheer and camaraderie. 

DEUCES!!