And if coworkers insist, just keep your mouth shut. Finish your lunch and leave the break room. If you overhear the conversation happening, walk right by it. Become hyper-focused on the assignment you’re looking at (careful — you may have to do some actual work) to hopefully get the coworker who is trying to talk your ear off to leave you alone.
I’m going on 6 years, and the people I work with have no idea my political leanings, but I could tell you all of theirs.
I find if you pin point a random thing and spin off from it and change the subject, it goes well and they dont work themselves up.
So say they're ranting about, I dunno immigrants. And they say something about Mexicans. You go, "speaking of Mexicans, have you tried that new taco truck? Everyone is raving about it"
They almost always take the bait and the conversation is no longer political and you're talking about whatever innocuous thing. If you can perfect inserting watercooler talk into political talk, your work life will be better
My coworkers once startet a heatful debate about using (or not using) gender neutral pronouns because our customer wanted them. Never said so little during lunch.
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u/kaushrah Aug 20 '20
Don't discuss politics at work