Why do many people not like quiet people at work?

People often dislike what they view to be unlike themselves. If they assume someone has tendencies that are not what they have classified as "normal" then they often view them as being abnormal. Abnormal behaviors bother people and they take exception to them. read more

People don't like quiet people b/c they fear them. If they know nothing about you, their imaginations run wild. What they don't know is, even if they know things about you, your personality is what makes them uneasy, not what they know of you. read more

People out there have a lot of funny ideas about quiet people, the worst one being that all quiet people are alike. There are about 10 million reasons why someone might not talk very much, running the gamut from being shy, to hating you, to having sold their voice to a witch in return for legs. read more

sometimes situations make people quiet yet they are not introverts as such. i had people in my life that i called friends but they disappointed me and spilled all my secrets, so i decided to keep my private life personal and talk to a few i think i can trust. i also edited my friends’s list. people think am quiet but am not, and i like it that way anyway. read more

First and foremost quiet, introverted people are often mistaken as being something they are not (arrogant, simply not caring, not very intelligent, not happy being there, etc) simply because they do not have a strong personable persona. read more