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Difficulty at work Hello all. I have been having a hard time recently and I wanted to get the opinion people here since I don't really know any other stutterers in real life. I have been at my new job for a month and a week now. At first things were pretty cool because we were all new (a new warehouse opened). I didn't really talk to anyone but if anyone talked to me i'd respond back and I'd say hello to people here and there. Recently I noticed certain things that bother me and I think may be out of my control. I have pretty bad social anxiety caused by my stutter because having conversations with people even one on one is pretty difficult due to the blocks and stammer I experience on a lot of words. Due to this issue I mostly keep to myself. Everyone else has started to buddy up and formed groups and cliques among themselves. At first the managers would ask me to take over certain tasks and it was cool because I didn't get stuck doing the same old thing. However the past week that started to change. They don't really ask me anymore and instead ask the talkative and more extroverted people. Many of these people just started this past week. Most times they hardly even speak to me or acknowledge me during the shift. It bothers me because I know they aren't choosing these people because they do a better job. I know this for a fact because everything we do is tracked and my numbers are usually much higher than those that they choose over me. I'm not sure how to approach the situation. I'm worried that my social anxiety and introversion is holding me back big time. Even if that's the case I wouldn't know how to overcome it, as the speech impediment is still there and there's not much I can do about that. I've tried therapy and such to no avail. It's like i'm kind of invisible to the managers despite my work being above a lot of the other people. I have also noticed favoritism is a big thing at this place, which puts me at a bigger disadvantage as I can't be all buddy buddy with people because it's not really in my nature. What do you guys think I should do?