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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do they do this? I am British and I find there are some Americans who seem like actual robots at work. It's one thing to be efficient, polite, focused on outcomes. It's another to be like - a fake person. Does anyone else feel this?[/quote]

American here who has learned to thrive in a corporate setting, and I’ll comment that unlike Europeans we have very few, if any, worker protections. We can be fired for many things, or at least marginalized. And after #metoo and recent diversity pushes in the corporate world, it became even more restrictive. Of course I don’t want to see sexual harassment or discrimination in the work place, but people started becoming very afraid of saying anything remotely controversial. People have been fired for political speech on social media outside the workplace bc most company policies allow for very broad rights for violating these policies (which no one reads) for any sort of message that might bring ‘disrepute’ or is not in ‘keeping with their culture’.

A former co worker was just commenting how our prior employer wasn’t perfect but we could be our messy opinionated selves at work, and how rare that is.

Because it is in corporate America. [/quote]

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