How do I shut down a close friend who is passionate to…
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How do I shut down a close friend who is passionate to share her "knowledge" with me?
So I have this friend at work who has given me great advise in regards to keeping my boundaries at work. She has been in the company I work at for more than a couple of years now and since I'm early into my career, her advise has been great help to me in making me stand my ground and to not let co-workers walk all over me. She is also a great friend too and we hang out outside work with one more other close work friend. She's almost like a big sister.
I did notice though that she has this intense paranoia about the management of our company - which yes, I do agree to some extent. Company politics is a thing and management and HR really do be shady sometimes with their policies and rules that are very not pro-employee. But little did I know, she is this way not only towards our company, but in her personal life as well.
Last week, she came out to me as a flat earther.
See, I've always been open-minded and an a healthy skeptic. I am always open to listen to things I don't actively believe in - because they are nice to think about. So spiritual stuff, astrology, and whatnot. At that time, it was no different. I heard her out. I listened and she really have been into conspiracy theories growing up and she genuinely believes them. I challenged her a bit, since I'm a very logical person. But she told me I should clear my mind of everything and just listen and watch videos when I get home. And so I stopped trying to challenge her and just humored her because it *was* an interesting listen.
I'd be okay if it stopped there. However, she seems to think that I'm interested to get into it myself and has been sending me videos and Tiktoks about how NASA is just a very elaborate and high budget movie set and that man never stepped on the moon, ever. But respectfully, I don't want to spend my free time on watching those. At first, I was being nice and is actively reacting. But the next few times, I got tired and just started ignoring the videos she sends me altogether.
I haven't seen her in person ever since we talked about the flat earth stuff since I was sick most of the week (I was on sick leave) but I genuinely don't want to get into it again with her. It's almost like some sort of religion and it makes me uncomfortable. Maybe I should just hope she gets the hint and stop talking about it with me? I really do consider her a good friend.
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So I have this friend at work who has given me great advise in regards to keeping my boundaries at work. She has been in the company I work at for more than a couple of years now and since I'm early into my career, her advise has been great help to me in making me stand my ground and to not let co-workers walk all over me. She is also a great friend too and we hang out outside work with one more other close work friend. She's almost like a big sister.
I did notice though that she has this intense paranoia about the management of our company - which yes, I do agree to some extent. Company politics is a thing and management and HR really do be shady sometimes with their policies and rules that are very not pro-employee. But little did I know, she is this way not only towards our company, but in her personal life as well.
Last week, she came out to me as a flat earther.
See, I've always been open-minded and an a healthy skeptic. I am always open to listen to things I don't actively believe in - because they are nice to think about. So spiritual stuff, astrology, and whatnot. At that time, it was no different. I heard her out. I listened and she really have been into conspiracy theories growing up and she genuinely believes them. I challenged her a bit, since I'm a very logical person. But she told me I should clear my mind of everything and just listen and watch videos when I get home. And so I stopped trying to challenge her and just humored her because it *was* an interesting listen.
I'd be okay if it stopped there. However, she seems to think that I'm interested to get into it myself and has been sending me videos and Tiktoks about how NASA is just a very elaborate and high budget movie set and that man never stepped on the moon, ever. But respectfully, I don't want to spend my free time on watching those. At first, I was being nice and is actively reacting. But the next few times, I got tired and just started ignoring the videos she sends me altogether.
I haven't seen her in person ever since we talked about the flat earth stuff since I was sick most of the week (I was on sick leave) but I genuinely don't want to get into it again with her. It's almost like some sort of religion and it makes me uncomfortable. Maybe I should just hope she gets the hint and stop talking about it with me? I really do consider her a good friend.
#relationships
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