Being excluded is no fun. It's so troubling when you're a tween and find out that the group chat you're in has a smaller secret group chat for the people that everyone actually wants to hang out with. As you grow up, exclusion gets less and less frequent because you can deprioritize those who exclude you much easier than you can when there are only 400 people at your high school. Even if you're a grown adult with a life and a job, being excluded can really bring you down, especially if you're the only one who is left out of a given situation.
One worker recently went viral on Reddit for sharing his story of being the only employee excluded from his coworker's wedding. Instead of letting another coworker assume that he simply couldn't make it, he clarified that he wasn't invited, which caused some tension during the department meeting.
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