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I don't talk about politics or religion at the workplace, yet there is a drama queen that loves just blurting out what she thinks to everyone around.

My way to go so far has been to ignore her, but sometimes I just want to yell at her how incoherent she is.

Then I'd be the one starting drama I guess...

I'm looking for advice to deal with these kind of people. I don't want to work listening to conspiracy theories.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I straight up called a coworker, in public, a brainless idiot for falling for right wing propaganda and then spent the next half hour mocking his views.

He never spoke about them again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can never seem to articulate what I think, so talking politics is very difficult to me. I would love to be able to mock someone's brain dead political views for 5 minutes. 30 seems inconceivable. Good on ya!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Right, I'm very conclusion oriented. So while I might know that I did validly get to a certain view or conclusion, I don't always know well enough why to the point I can explain it to others or argue with someone about it.

This can even be something as simple as why I chose one product over the other. I know I had good reasons for choosing the laptop I did when I bought it, but if you ask me what specifically about it made me choose it over another I probably can't tell you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wish this would work, it wouldn't. When your company is 95% on the opposite side of your views, you just become the crazy person. The whispers begin, then the group jabs, then the outcast etc etc. You know you're the sane one, but that's not how the majority thinks of you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Changing jobs is always an option.