This makes me sad that it ' s his last year in office . <| sep |> To add to this comment ! I work at both an office and in a Starbucks . At Bux , we get paid to be yappy and get to know people in a short period of time . You don ' t even notice it happening anymore , it ' s part of the culture at Starbucks because they want you to foster those relationships . This job doesn ' t want you to do that . I ' m sure it ' s subconscious , but us Starbucks employees are chatty cathys a lot of the time , and it can get real personal , real fast . You ' ll have to retrain yourself for an office environment instead of a customer service environment . Small talk only , how are you good yourself ? Good and then move on to work . You ' re going to have to reevaluate what is coming out of your mouth . In an environment as private as a therapists office , saying something like oh today is okay , running low on towels because someone got sickcriedpoop on it , so I ' m a little tired to the coffee guy COULD be seen as breaching privacy . Any passing comment like that could and can make patients feel uncomfortable . You probably didn ' t know you even said it ! But you have to unwire the Starbucks and learn to be friendly , but not a friend .