Your comment made me check out your channel. Glad you are still with HIVE. I wanted to comment on your post and was hoping to give some inspiration for you. When the comment turned out to be of post length, I decided to create a more elaborate post. A little expert I copy here:

I do very much agree the workplace is foremost about superficial connections. As my story and the reaction I got last Friday a week ago, painfully proved. Let it be. Play a role at work. Be what others want you to be. Pull a big ass wall around your emotions, to not let colleagues give you a bad feeling. But never stop finding opportunities to change things and perhaps also to try and truly reach people. In my experience, some people in the office can become true real-life friends outside the office. People with whom we can enjoy a much more in-depth relationship. I go by an unwritten rule in this. Generally, I seek such outside-office-relationships only after such person is not my colleague anymore, ie the person left the company or I left the company. Not sure if this is a must, but it seems to happen this way with ex-colleagues who are now somewhere in my inner circle of friends and/or somewhere in between my inner circle and the (little) lesser inner circles.

I do hope you went through summer finding good feelings with positive events. I certainly hope you are finding ways to deal with office and colleagues in ways it isn't harming the you you. For now, I wish you the best weekend you can have. NJOY 🙏