Walk in expecting to be ignored and you’ll collect proof all day. Your eyes follow the script you gave them.

Expectation quietly sorts the evidence. Arrive certain that nobody wants you there and every neutral face becomes a snub, while the one person who smiled gets filed as an exception and forgotten by evening. The room may well have been fine. The record you kept of it was the part that went wrong.

Sometimes rooms genuinely are cold, and none of that is your doing. Still, it is worth testing. Go in with one small experiment, like speaking first to two people, then count what actually happened rather than what you predicted.