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I live in Proctor Vermont - it is 109 miles each way. I work at the NY State Government complex near UAlbany. I have a new job lined up starting in 3 weeks. Work from home for first 6 months then move to Virginia.
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Slacker007 wrote: I live in Schenectady
Y'all take a class to learn how to spell that? Good grief!
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Slacker007 wrote: I live in Schenectady, near Colonie.
I work M-W in Glenmont. Let me know if you ever want to get together for lunch!
Marc
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W∴ Balboos wrote: They keep walking, their head turned ahead, to their actual target person.
So, then they were not saying hello to you. You were not the target person. So?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Reasonable supposition. Head was turned towards me when the blurted out the greeting. Looked me in the face, turned their head forward - never breaking their pace.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Looked me in the face
Oh, I see.
Maybe they had one of those silly earpieces and were actually on their cell phone. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Looked me in the face, turned their head forward - never breaking their pace.
Efficient salutations for workplace create high levels of productivity.
No need to await answer.
You are at work so your only possible answer is "fine".
If you are on the positive side of "fine" then you are happy and obviously need more soul-crushing work to do.
If you are on the negative side of "fine" then you need to be fired immediately since you're a detriment to the workplace.
All of this is Office Efficiencies.
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Oh I get it now. I was about to say... nothing wrong with saying hello to people. But it sounds like that person was just being nosy to you while passing by along the way to someone else. That's annoying and disrespectful IMO. But it's also the office world. Most people really have no idea or simply don't care enough about how they treat others in the office world. It's not intentional on that person's part... it's just done out of ignorance and lack of self awareness of one's own actions.
Jeremy Falcon
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I pictured it more as a mindless custom encouraged by local habits.
Mindless, and for those not like-mind-less, inconsiderate on a good day.
I don't want to hear the snore or phart, either.
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Still not clear on if he/she was saying hello to you or not. But, if he/she wasn't saying it to you... then yeah I agree.
Jeremy Falcon
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 I absolutely hate meaningless pleasantries and generally don't initiate or respond to them. I find that it's getting more difficult to be anti-social these days...not my choice.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I've noticed this as well from people where I work and realized that none of them really care. At one point I actually did start saying that I had a horrible day and so on. Only a few would ask about details and then I'd have to explain why I said it. Now I usually respond with a "I'm doing pretty well, how about you?" The question seems to cause people to pause and actually force them to reply.
If I don't really want to know or don't have time for a conversation, I usually just pass by someone I know with a friendly "Hi Bob!" and keep going. If I am curious or do have time, it would be more "Hi Bob, how are you today?" What I say and how I say it are important to what I'm after.
That is true about NY'ers though, the wife jokes about when she moved and went to a deli in the south. They actually asked her what she was planning to do with the ham and cheese she was buying! She was very confused at first as in NYC she would expect to order, get said order, pay, and get out. Transaction completed, don't waste time.
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... Tuesday ... and we're already disfunctional!
(I know you're not a hater ...)
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RedDk wrote: ... Tuesday ... and we're already disfunctional!
From my point of view, it's already Tuesday and I'm finally dysfunctional.
RedDk wrote: (I know you're not a hater ...)
Don't you hate it when people post things like that?*
* obligatory answer.
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I guess I've never been so helpful. So get out your 64-bit Meshlab and add a texture/material to some Photoshop 3D export.
Ok, that doesn't work?
(fiddle ... fiddle ... fiddle ...)
Find something that does.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: RedDk wrote: (I know you're not a hater ...)
Don't you hate it when people post things like that?*
I hate hating so much that it makes me hate hating even more to the point that I put on a hat of hate which calms my hate.
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Was he/she saying hello to you or the other person?
Jeremy Falcon
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Head turned toward me as they walked forward toward their destination person. Head turned away before I could answer - obviously they didn't give a sh*t about the answer and perhaps didn't even know their lips were flapping and making distracting sounds.
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Well, assuming he was saying hello to you... this may come as a shock, but not everyone hates the world. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: this may come as a shock, but not everyone hates the world
Only the ignorant . . . and the dead.
And I hate happy-face emojis, too!
Wake up and smell the flowers bus exhaust.
Grumble.
Grumble.
Grumble.
Grumble.
Grumble.
Grumble.
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What are those things? Miniature endplate potentials?
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I get it though. If you're trying to concentrate it can be unnerving to be distracted. I do that too... when we need focus then quiet is important.
Jeremy Falcon
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Reminds me of when we went to California to see Disneyland / Sea world etc. One of the things that really got up the missus nose was that Americians would just shove you out of their way (she's quite small, but nimble), saying a very fake "sorry" at the same time.
We were on our way home from a trip to UK where she had just played hockey for New Zealand, and as such, she knows how to trip people up without it looking obvious. Anyhow, she started muttering about the next person who shoved her out of the way, would get it. I managed to convince her not to do it until some big tall american shoved her out of the way with a bit too much force and the customary fake "sorry". He ended up on his face and bleeding, but was very apolegetic as he thought it was all his fault, this time for once, genuine.
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That's why I keep roughly 15,000,000 feet between me and California.
I will admit, however, that they do have bikini-wearing roller skaters, most of whom are female.
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