Hey, I am unsure if this is the right place to come to. I have started a job and shadowed a women. It's basically 2 people work in a kitchen have separate things to be doing and then coming together to clean at the end.
I hate bitchiness, they were really nice to me and stuff. But basically just complaining to eachother 'ohhhh i bet it was ….. Who was on the shift before. You can always tell. Ohhh why did I even look of course it was her.' just moaning about shit and it scares me incase I get bullied.
I am a very introverted person who struggles with people please even though I don't want friends or anything. I just want no conflict. She was like 'ohh It all depends who you work with, it's fun with us because we banter and have a laugh, but when you work with ignorant quiet ones it can drag.'
I am quiet and I genuinely can't be arsed complaining and having a laugh that's not funny to me. She said 'there's one that doesn't talk much and just says yea yea and she's a bit slow' I said 'thats basically just like me then' and she was like ' yeah but that's because this is your first day, you were quicker at doing the work that her and she's been here 4 years.'
Thing is I am generally slow, I am quiet and don't want to be sucked into their bitching and complaining. But I feel bad that they work with me and they hate it because I will make their shift drag. And it makes me feel guilty. I hate conflict. What would be the best way to deal with this, to avoid conflict and not get sucked into the moaning at other people and the bitching. They all act really nice to eachother. I don't want to not be nice but I can't be arsed with these Karen's it bores me. I just wanna do my job. But I don't know how to act now.