There is an interaction with a female coworker that still haunts me to this day.
I joined a company in a different country and that coworker slacked me and said her welcomes in my mother tongue and asked me to speak in that. Apparently one of her parents was from my country and she lived there during her childhood and she was missing it
After carefully planning my reply for 15 minutes, my reply was something like: "Hi, thanks for the welcome! We can have a tea and chat if you ever visit to our floor". Immediately I thought that could be interpreted as me hitting her but I offered the tea conversation because tea is a big part of our culture and we used to do that all the time back at home with our coworkers.
But yea, it kinda felt like I am hitting on her and I was a bit worried that I introducing myself in such a bad way. iirc she replied something like "sure, thanks :)" and that smiley still haunts me. Nothing happened after that, no tea for us either.
So yeah, if you are a sperg like me with 0 social skills, it is even more worrying interacting with opposite sex.
I joined a company in a different country and that coworker slacked me and said her welcomes in my mother tongue and asked me to speak in that. Apparently one of her parents was from my country and she lived there during her childhood and she was missing it
After carefully planning my reply for 15 minutes, my reply was something like: "Hi, thanks for the welcome! We can have a tea and chat if you ever visit to our floor". Immediately I thought that could be interpreted as me hitting her but I offered the tea conversation because tea is a big part of our culture and we used to do that all the time back at home with our coworkers.
But yea, it kinda felt like I am hitting on her and I was a bit worried that I introducing myself in such a bad way. iirc she replied something like "sure, thanks :)" and that smiley still haunts me. Nothing happened after that, no tea for us either.
So yeah, if you are a sperg like me with 0 social skills, it is even more worrying interacting with opposite sex.