Tiffany’s Corner

 This may make me sound like a snob, but I hate meaningless conversations. I get easily irritated when I walk in to a room and every single time am greeted by an obviously overly fake “HI, HELLO, HOW ARE YOU?” This would be okay if it happened once in a while, but lately it’s been happening to me a lot at the office. When I come back from an errand or my lunch break there is no need to say “THERE YOU ARE! OH LOOK, TIFFANY’S BACK, EVERYONE!” It’s obvious that I’m back, you don’t need to announce it to the world!

I really am a nice person, I swear. But I don’t enjoy being forced to make pleasent chitchat with anyone and everyone just because we make eye contact. If I wanted to or was interested in having a conversation with you, I would initiate it.

If you’ve ever watched The Office, you might consider me a female version of Dwight K. Schrute. I like working, and I like being at work. I like rules and I like to enforce them. I am somewhat of a suck-up and sometimes go a little too out of my way to make my boss like me. That being said, I would like to share something from Dwight’s most recent blog:

“We, as a society, have gone backwards when it comes to interpersonal communication. Neanderthals communicated using only grunts and gestures. As time passed on, humans began to overcomplicate language to the point where it is now difficult to accomplish anything because there are too many stupid people and they use too many stupid words. This is why I am proposing the use of a basic universal language for all human beings regardless of race, culture, or physical location.

This language will not take the place of conversation between people you know and trust. It will merely be used for the casual daily interactions with strangers that can become so difficult when words are introduced. If I sneeze, I don’t need to have a conversation about it. Thank you for your blessings, but please stop wasting my time. Also, it’s more polite to say gesundheit.”

P.S. If you would like to delve deeper into Dwight’s rewriting of the human language, feel free to visit

http://blog.nbc.com/DwightsBlog/2008/03/thoughts_on_interpersonal_comm.php#more where you can read the rest of his rant.