So I’ve been trying to be more confident and socially outgoing this year. One piece of advice I saw online was to set behavioral reminders, like little nudges to keep you mindful of your goals. Sounds smart, right?
So I open google calendar and set a recurring weekly reminder every Thursday at 3PM that just says:
“Flirt more. Eye contact. You’re charming, dammit.”
I thought it was private. I didn’t realize I still had “default guests” turned on from a past team project—so it automatically invited three of my coworkers, including my manager.
Did I notice right away? Of course not. I found out when one of them hit me with a crying laughing emoji and just said “Bold strategy, let me know how it works out.”
Back to me, opening calendar, seeing the event, and immediately wanting to walk into the sea. The worst part? They didn’t decline the event. So it’s still sitting on their calendars like a shared motivational TED Talk.
TL;DR: Tried to boost my confidence with a flirty calendar reminder, accidentally shared it with coworkers, now they think I’m either smooth or slowly unraveling.
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Oof.
Thursday 3 pm
Turns on “friends theme song” in office walk around doing your best Joey “how you doin”
Roll with it. Turn it into a joke. Add in weekly invites for other random things, always the same day/time. Preferably non-romantic/sexual in nature. ‘Visit a dog park and act like you have a dog. You deserve to pat some good boys’. ‘Buy more balloons. Paradise Falls awaits’ etc
Gonna go ahead and say this is cringe even if nobody got it sent to them
I put “Brazilian wax” on my entire labs calendar and had no idea till it was in the middle of a 50 person lab meeting and everyone was like “so who’s getting a Brazilian today?”
Your biggest mistake was using the work calendar and instead of your personal one.
Not going to lie.
If I did this, I would literally yeet myself directly into a volcano in embarrassment.
If a co-worker did this, I would like them a lot and have no further questions.
I need a friend like that in my life! Hopefully with some honesty it’s water under the bridge.
So you reminded yourself to be more flirty, specifically during work hours. Is it towards coworkers, clients, or any will do?
Better than “time to crank in the stall “
Dude. Fucking own it
The only way out is through. Tomorrow send another reminder. Flirting again, or diversify w something like “start a conversation with someone in the office you don’t usually speak with. You’re worth getting to know. Dammit!” Do three days in a row of this, then on the fourth day thank them all for participating.
I think you’re just smooth.
This is hilarious and I’m glad you’ve kept it on the calendar
If it helps, my husband added “get vaccinated dumb shit” to his public work calendar
> default guests
This sounds like the worst feature ever.
Either A: This works crazy well and they thank you/ask you out or B: YOU FCKED UP SO MASSIVELY
Please let us know when Thursday, 3pm comes along! 😂
“Accidentally” 🙂↕️
This is so fucking funny
is this like a 4d chess move, flirting with everyone at once by making a mistake?
only way this works out well is if your an extremely handsome man or a woman.
next move: flirting with everyone at 3pm on Thursday, like you scheduled.
How do people let this happen on their work devices? Baffled.
I think now you need to prepare a presentation on flirting.
If you were my coworker, I’d look you deeply in the eyes, gently bite my lower lip, okay with my hair and give you a blink every time I’d see you. You’re fried
A month later, everyone at work is more confident, and more productive.
Gawd! I used to do this, especially at stressful times with joke meetings and such. Only with insiders! I need to try this one. I had one that was obviously a joke and more than 50% of the people showed up in the meeting room. The boss was always the first one there, he wasn’t in on the joke. I watched people walk in and crack up laughing.
Be creative! Make this a weekly event