Alice Wilder

But they also have those insecurities.

Yeah, we're all insecure.

Can I offer an idea for this?

Oh, yeah.

What if this person, like, found their least unfriendly co-worker and, like, asked them out for coffee or lunch and, like, sometimes you need a bridge person to, like, kind of...

give you like the access kind of vouch for you or like, you know, and, and having lunch with someone, it could just be a normal lunch, but you could also be like, Hey, I've been feeling kind of like knotted on the joke at work.

Is this something you experienced when you started?

Or I think like, if you can convey it a little bit of how you've been struggling, uh,

Maybe I'm being an optimist, but I'm like, maybe they'll be like, oh, I didn't even realize.

Like, I think when you've been in a social group for so long and that's just your like default setting, they might be like, oh, wow, we have been kind of leaving this person out.

Like, maybe I should make more of an effort.

All right, here's our final question.

This one's wild.

I mean, they're all wild, but how do I tell my coworker who I see three times a week that she cannot have a copy of my house key?

We're work friends, but not friend friends.

She's going through a breakup and wants to stay with me while she moves out of the home she shared with her boyfriend.

She doesn't have a lot of friends and I feel for her, but also I do not want to give her a key to my place.

Signed, not your roommate.

Wait, sorry, but you had a coworker ask for a house.

Okay, so before we end the episode, I want to do a little round of workplace would you rather...