Can’t Do Nice

Hello Everyone: I'm slowly reconciling myself to the fact that I will be on the phone as early as Wednesday. I have to do it at some point and the faster I get it over with, the better. Maybe I'm just experiencing a bad case of nerves and feeling so stupid because my co-workers are so much better at the people part of the job. I've never been much of people person. I can be polite, which may be good enough. At least one big obstacle is finally out of my way, the paycheck. I'm finally going to see some money this week. So happy about that because I was starting to get to the point where I was ready to go to the supervisor before stopping work. Getting back to the feeling stupid part, as I said I've never been much of people person. I've worked retail and customer service jobs, faking polite. I've never been very good at faking it. I tend to be blunt and can't deal with people who require lengthy explainstions. I am who I am, I can't help myself. I can't do nice or sugar coat everything. Everyone else seems to be able to do nice and soften the bad news. I can do the science part really well but not the people part. I know the saying fake it until you make it but I really can't fake it too well. I don't know how I'm going to manage.