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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like some of us must have worked in the same place!

Anyway yes when I worked in a place like this I felt a lot of pressure to conform to this kind of behavior (oversharing and socializing all the time plus gossip and being in everyone's business all the time) because it was so normalized. But unlike a lot of the other workers there I had quite a bit of experience in more professional environments and I knew there are major pitfalls to all of it. I just got a reputation for being old and uptight and then people didn't want to hange out with me anyway and eventually I left the job and moved on.

And then later I heard they got sued by multiple former employees for sexual harassment and an abusive work environment and I was not even remotely surpristed.

Professionalism is not about being "uptight." It's about being respectful and understanding that maintaining work relationships requires a bit of detachment. You can leave work and go relax with your family and friends but being more restrained at work is actually healthy and benefits everyone.[/quote]

Op here. I agree with you that being professional is being respectful to everyone. It also means that you keep yourself from getting into trouble. I did make a comment to one of my managers that the work environment should have more boundaries on the types of conversations, and my manager responded that the head manager for the department didn't want to make the department feel "too corporate." Well, I disagree because all it takes is for one conversation to make someone or some people uncomfortable, and then there will be an investigation, and the whole system will fall down with everyone pointing fingers at each other as they say, "you did it. You started it by oversharing and acting nosy."

I would also associate it as a tone at the top problem. If top management does it, the subordinates will follow. [/quote]

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