The Daily Grind...Work Experiments

Field Reports & Anecdotal Experience Men's Pheromone Advice & Field Reports
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Hi All,

Well, after some beta trials of A314 at work, I’ve taken the plunge and gotten myself a whole bag of goodies to try out. I’ve not been using them for a long time yet, so these are my initial observations up to this point.

First, a brief background - these mixes in this thread are focused on work. However, my descriptions of myself personally (along with my goals) will be listed generally.

Environmental and demographic conditions follow…

Occupation - Network/Comm Engineer
Typical Work Area - Office / Lab Areas
Demographic - Predominantly Caucasian (99%)
Gender Mix - 35% / 65% (male/female)
Age Range - 26 to 55 (approx)(most on younger side of this)

About me…
Male, Hetero, 5’10", 130lbs, brown hair, brown eyes, slim build.
Friendly, high energy, a bit shy at times.

General problem areas…

  • Women tend not to view me in a sexual context (I appear too “innocent”).
  • I tend to clam up a bit in crowded social settings - this needs to be loosened considerably. Alcohol does not do this at all for me, and due to medical circumstances, even small amounts have disastrous effects now.
  • I am a bit shy sometimes - not as outgoing as I’d like to be.

Notes from the field…

A314 (1 drop behind ears, 1 wrists) - appears to make me seem a tad older. When I talk, I pretty much have the floor. People already trust me, but this seems to drive that even deeper, as if to remove all doubt. I also seem to get more feedback in conversation, and I have noticed that I’m slightly more inclined to initiate conversations. Win-win here. Using for almost 2 weeks now.
My impressions - this may well become the cornerstone of all my mixes. Subtle, good effects here. This seems to help all my problem areas, albeit slightly.

IH (15mcg/spray, 1 spray each wrist, 1 hair) - still going light on this. Only using for past couple days now. I have only noticed very subtle cues at this dose (which is admittedly light). Will update when I have more info.

IO (15mcg/spray, 1 spray each wrist) - only used this once so far. Everyone seemed very quiet that day. Unable to properly attribute this since it was just one day, so will repeat and report back with more data.

TUTH - (2.5mcg/spray, 1 spray to chest) - Oh yes I did! :open_mouth: Did this for about a week. Very weak dose. But surprisingly brings the males in the group a bit more out of their shells. Got more feedback in conversation from them (more joking, more laughter, BS-ing, etc - appears to bring out the “man” in them socially). Some self-effects included - seems to make me very, very slightly more outgoing. It seems to give me just a bit more sway with the women too, some of them becoming not only more talkative, but giggly. This was very readily apparent on several of them.
My impressions - I did not appear to get any negative effects from this. Admittedly, again, very weak dose. Of the tests conducted so far, this is probably my most unexpected and curious result. I somewhat expected the result from the women, but I fully expected to see some sort of negative from other men. I believe if I increase the dosage, I will see more divergence in behavior - possibly negative on the male side. This suggests that I am not -none capped at this dosage, and may possibly have a naturally low -none signature, which would feed into problem #1.

That’s all so far folks - I’ll update this thread with more results at my next opportunity. I’ll also be spawning more threads covering different situations/mixes as I try them out.

–Taishan

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Hello! Work is such a good place to try pheros, because of the huge amount of people there and the responses show more than on the street.

What is your own age? How do you estimate your own none production?

You say you are shy, to what extent does this show in your behaviour?

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Hi Butterfly,

Sorry I didn’t list my own age - I’ve updated my profile (it was hidden before and I didn’t catch that). I’m currently 24, going to be 25 in a couple weeks or so.

My a-none production estimate is a wild crazy-ass guess in the dark (I can admit it). I’m hypothesizing because I haven’t previously seen any cues that women think about me in a sexual way (I could be blind, or oblivious). I’m going to go out on a limb and say that until I wear enough to get “ghosted”, I’m not a-none capped.

As for being shy, usually it doesn’t affect me at work. I don’t fully understand yet why it’s easier for me to open/initiate at work. My guess is that at work, I already have good reason to open, I usually know where the conversation is headed, and I know what to say. I’m prepared for it.

In crowded social settings, however, I clam up. I don’t know what to say. My mind blanks. Even if I managed an open, I wouldn’t have enough ammo (no pun intended) to keep the conversation going. Usually at work I get enough feedback to keep a conversation going as well, whereas in crowded social settings, sometimes I don’t get enough feedback (and I don’t have enough fire-starter topics myself to segway onto).

To contrast in a few words each setting…

Work - initiator, direct, comfortable, focused
Crowded Social Setting (i.e. Bar) - slightly nervous, mind blank, not comfortable

Basically - at work, I’m almost “House” style bravado. In a CSS, I may as well be Monk. I have no game there.

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An update…

So on Thursday I decided to change it up a bit for work.

2x drops A314
6x sprays IH (1x)

I finally got a quote back today from one of our SPs, an extremely important quote. It is expensive, and the modifications it puts into effect are far reaching (I can’t go into detail, NDAs). Needless to say, not something your boss would rubber stamp, more something your boss would sit and think on for a couple months.

Now, I will preface this by saying that my boss already trusts me. But I never saw this coming.

I take the quote in, impromptu, to him to discuss it. After talking about it for 10 minutes, the magic words - “Let’s go ahead and do it”. He said he was going to let me make the call, I had done all the research on it, and he trusted me to decide on it.

This is in stark contrast to every other encounter of this nature I have had with every other job. Usually, your boss will fight you tooth and nail on any expenditure, no matter how important it may be (“there has to be something else that would be cheaper”). This was a bombshell, especially since this was directly after another large purchase, for the same project, ordered by me.

I’ll say this - I’m usually given much latitude to do pretty much whatever I need to do at work, and have been at every job I’ve ever held. But I have never been given so free a hand when it comes to something of this magnitude. Especially so quickly.