Comments on: Why It’s Okay To Be Awkward (Even At Work!)

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:59:10 +0000

Love this! It takes sometime to embrace your awkwardness and it comes only once you’ve learned to accept yourself and not take life so seriously. I truly believe one of our greatest skills is the ability to laugh at ourselves when we goof up.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:45:27 +0000

My entire life is an awkward moment. I was born without any grace or hand-eye coordination, and since I am also blind in one eye I don’t have good depth perception. I’m the clumsiest person you’ll ever meet. Everyone finds it endearing, not embarrassing. It took me a long time, but I’ve embraced being the forever-klutz.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:20:54 +0000

I finished a text to my boss with 😘 instead of 😂. Just a quick slip of the finger. I’m also really trying to embrace the part of « asking “dumb” questions instead of staying confused ». I find it actually makes me come across as authentic and invested and then I learn and grow more quickly!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:17:04 +0000

This didn’t happen to me, but rather, it happened to a former leader I supported. The leader thought she shared just one section of her OneNote to the team after a meeting concluded, but instead she shared her ENTIRE OneNote account with all her notes about teammates and their performance reviews. She dropped an “F” bomb and quickly tried to undo it once someone told her what she did, but unfortunately it was no laughing matter at the time. It’s tough to say if anyone else even noticed it, but looking back, I did laugh quietly to myself because there was nothing else I could think of to help support her in that moment. I hope she finds it funny now!

By: Cheyanne

Cheyanne — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:06:19 +0000

It’s so relieving to remember that people are thinking 1000% more about themselves than they are of us! Thank you for the permission in this article to take ourselves less seriously and not sweat it when things land weird. I can definitely say I feel much safer with people who are comfortable in their own cutely human, awkward skin than people who are always on guard about how they’re being perceived. This was a lovely read!

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:57:59 +0000

I can’t think of a situation at work at this moment but when I was younger at an after school program we had a pizza party and the teacher told me to go look in the staff refridgerator and grab the drumsticks. I looked and looked until a teacher passed by and said can i help you. When I told her I was looking for drumsticks she quickly pointed out the big blue box of ice cream and there was a moment of awkward silence as I had an ohhh moment in my head. Instead of looking for the Drumstick ice cream, I was in search of chicken wings. I guess Pizza & wings seemed like a more appealing combo at the time Lol

By: Kathrine

Kathrine — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:45:25 +0000

I run a big team and I shared a personal note in a public Slack channel. It was obvious who the note was for and I only deleted it after one of my employees told me what I did. I thought everyone would lose respect for me but it blew over quickly.