Posted on 05/26/2014 5:54:50 AM PDT by Sam's Army
Sitting at a lunch table, my co-worker mentioned she had been up all night with her daughter who was teething. A few minutes later, the conversation around the lunch table turned to a team project. I noticed the group was excluding my co-worker from the discussion, assuming she was too tired to contribute.
That was the first time I realized it was a bad idea for women to talk about their kids and home life at the office.
Career blogger Penelope Trunk believes being your true self at work means taking risks and letting people in the workplace see you for who you are outside the office, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at theledger.com ...
BREEDERZ!!!
OK, I just skimmed this. But you haven’t lived until you’ve worked with somebody who’s undergoing gender reassignment.
But I generally believe that you should keep your personal life at home, when in doubt. It helps keep people out of politics and religion and other risky territory. Also if you’re visiting a lot, it may be you’re neglecting your work. You need special care with conversations in ear shot of customers and vendors, too. Vendors can be Typhoid Marys of company gossip, repeating it to competitors, etc.
I will mention a company by name—Days Inn Bozeman, because I generally liked working there, and it was 22 years ago. We had this tiny breakroom, smokers and nonsmokers together. I had lunch outside a lot, with a book, but couldn’t do this every day because its Bozeman and nobody is tough enough to do that in winter without proper clothing, etc. in summer it was like 90 of course. One of the girls talked nonstop about her husband, in-laws, etc. A lot of stuff was also b.s. and it was easy to call her out with inconsistencies in her stories, so I did. This did not go over well. Later she got in trouble for a false accusation of domestic abuse against the husband and even her own mother said she was lying.
Another one was a Queen Bee talking about her fingernails, her ex-husband, what she saw on TV the night before(Alf). I swear that these people are one of the best reasons to become self-employed.
I will add that I am not a big fan of employers trying to tell employees how to live at home on their off-hours either. Swedish Hospital in Seattle tried doing this with cigarette smoking and it did not go over well. Now that marijuana is legal here, I don’t know how they will handle that.
I suspect that is the root of this article.
Talking about families, makes gay co-workers feel uncomfortable, so they are trying to get rid of anything in the workplace that is considered “Hetero-Normative.”
geez, too much information.
And I would say the same of any guys who describe in such detail the big night they had planned with a girlfriend. The whole world does not need to know everything. Some people have no sense of boundaries or decency.
I worked in a bar/package store in the seventies and answered to a manager whose favorite saying was “small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events and great minds talk about ideas.”
Except he talked about sex with the (somewhat embarrassed) beer men. That’s events, I guess.
I agree. Some things should stay private....I don’t want to hear about them.
In the immortal words of a character from Dilbert: Having a personal life is like stealing from the company.
People forget that companies are manned by people who spend most of their lives doing something else.
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