It was working out for me, but I was hurting a lot of people as well. [Pause] And actually, Comrade, once I stopped, I realised that there were a lot of things about it that were not so good for me. Like, I wasn't authorized to fraternize with the people in my division, and they may also have found me terrifying, so I never had friends. I also never talked to people about things other than work, and products they could buy, and how glorious the factory was, which means I had to go my entire adult life without gossiping.

[And Prefect fucking loves gossiping now. Shego has made him a gossip exchanging PRO.]

He didn't try any. They might have helped.