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how can I get coworkers to leave me alone about a humiliating TV experience?

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My boss said it was alright so long as my employer was not named — this was relevant, as I work for a government department. I wanted to sink back into my office chair until I become one with it, unrecognizable, merely furniture. I naively assumed the best. Now my coworkers are in on it, too.

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my interviewers burst out laughing after I left the room, I need a different desk chair, and more

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I also understand that my coworkers significantly more money than I do, so they may not realize that money is more of an object for me (I am fine working at the “bottom of the totem pole” since it provides experience that directly correlates to the skills I’m learning in my master’s program).