Yup....I’ve learned over the years that it’s best to put personal distance between yourself & others in the work environment. And that’s not easy....too much distance & people start to think that you are anti-social and a little weird. Lol, I’ve learned to be social, but bland....if that makes any sense.
Yes! It makes perfect sense. I have learned to do this as well.
Some of my closest colleagues (I am in the film and music industry the former as a director/producer the latter as performer.) throw out far left, political tantrums inches a way from me some times on a daily basis looking to me for some sort of validation and hint that I am 'one of them.' I have mastered the art of bland look and refocus onto work or another subject.
It can be quite fun to see someone who has just shown their hateful underbelly left unvalidated and left hanging unto another subject. Needless to say this overtly political behavior has stopped. They know they are one not going to get validation but two will be left an open wound as I move to a work subject or something bland. Three the still don't know my politics. That has to tweak the really whacked out libs.