There is something amazing about the human relations in USA. If you are working, for example in a research lab, you will notice that when people go home for good, they generally don't say bye, or good night. People just leaves. How come? Do they forgot? Are they extremely busy? Maybe. Or maybe there is something else...What happens, is that if you go and say "bye and good night" you are implying your fellows that "you are done" for today. This is, you stop working. A big sin in USA. But, if instead, you just leave without announcing it, what happens? It could be that you just went for some food and you will come back. That's it. Coming back is theoretically possible. But but if you say "goodnight" it isn't. 
The ambivalence is what protects you in the long run. This thinking from your colleagues: "I don't know exactly at what time Tom, Pamela or whoever stop working"  is what matters. That's what is searched and what at the same time is lost.

 

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