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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, I'm looking back at a previous place of employment where everyone (including the managers) was very nosy and incredibly open with each other about everything in their lives (oversharing). Because of this, I tended to overshare as well. I left the job because I graduated college and got a job working in a different environment that is very professional where people don't overshare and aren't nosy. This got me thinking that I realized it's not professional to overshare. I now know this, but is it possible for the work culture to produce people to normalize "oversharing" than what is actually professional acceptable? I believe so. Tell me what you think. [/quote]

I worked in a place like this. No boundaries. A lot of oversharing. People dating colleagues. Way too much drinking disguised as team building. At the time, it felt comfortable, casual. Like the sort of place where everyone gets along and no one makes too big a deal. Except that no one REALLY got along and everything was ALWAYS a big deal. It was next to impossible to have normal, appropriate boundaries there because that wasn't cool, just like not drinking wasn't cool. When I left that job and started working somewhere with appropriate boundaries, it was a little bit jarring and felt kind of cold. But later, it was really reassuring to me that I knew a lot about the work of my colleagues, their professional interests and histories, but almost nothing about their personal lives, by and large. [/quote]

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