Should I feel bad I am labelled as a "boring" work colleague?

[Cybercubed]

So I've been working in a factory for nearly 3 years. I happy in the job, but its a place with notoriously high staff turnover, lots of drama and endless gossip. People who were friends who are now bitter enemies, colleagues in relationships each other ending badly, lots of backstabbing, staff being screwed over, untrustworthy management etc. If feels like a being in a soap sometimes.

I've always tried to keep my head down, work and stay out of gossip.

I've been accused of being a "robot", "boring" "no fun to work with". Maybe I am a bit boring, but it has had an effect on my relationships with team leaders, who see me as one of the most reliable and dependable but when it comes to favouritism, they'll pick/side with their unreliable drinking buddies with high absenteeism.

I'm not going to lie it does make me feel bad I'm thought in that way, is it possible to be fun and entertaining at work without being a gossiper?

What are you not being picked for? Is it worth acting all day, every day?

And who said this? It’s not the sort of thing you say out loud to someone unless you’re a kind of a dick.

It is very tiring acting a personality you are not, day in and day out. Don’t do it. Just be you - boring is subjective, but also boring means you stay out of the firing line when the shit inevitably hits the fan.
Another plus is that being viewed as ‘boring’ means you can get away with stuff as you have a lovely invisibility cloak!
If you ever do need to make a complaint / fuss over something, being viewed as normal bland, means that when you do so, the higher up tend to actually take notice as it’s seen as being so out of character, that something must really be wrong for you to complain.

Embrace the positives of being boring, go in do your job and collect the money with zero hassle.

(I secretly suspect you are not boring but actually a corporate spy 009.😁👍)

Factory work can be like this and there is often some favouritism involved from team leaders. I'd say even if you joined in more they still might not favour you.

Having had my fill of high drama, ‘exciting’ personalities and the shitstorm that followed for decades, give me boring any day. I am now boring and I wouldn’t change for the world.

Be happy with who you are OP.

Has any of this shenanigans had a negative impact on your promotion prospects?

If not, I'd just keep your head down, do the job, take the money and leave it there.