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Where else am I to share my feelings on personal or political topics? Work dominates my schedule. I can't reasonably isolate strong feelings to a peripheral mil
by rexpop 4y ago
Where else am I to share my feelings on personal or political topics? Work dominates my schedule. I can't reasonably isolate strong feelings to a peripheral milieu.
I agree that it is, by the explicit standards of corporate management, "completely inappropriate," but I think in the interest of a stable society, this is a standard we're obligated to violate.
- kortilla 4y agoIt’s “completely inappropriate” not because of corporate management but because your coworkers won’t share your views on all of your emotional outbursts.
- Barrin92 4y ago> but because your coworkers won’t share your views on all of your emotional outbursts in a democratic society that's to be expected and a good thing, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would have a discussion if they already share their views. Here in Germany politics is generally present in workplaces and nobody finds that odd because it's not like the place where you spend half of your day ought to be a civil society free zone. Covid workplace mandates and rules were highly contentious, where else is a better place to discuss them than at work, where they matter?
- zdragnar 4y agoYou are assuming that people are willing to discuss issues in good faith. That is certainly not always the case - being on the wrong side of the line means getting publicly shamed, insulted, and your career path ended. This happened to a friend of mine who merely suggested that discussions on abortion happen in a chat channel other than the main engineering one. Unlike religion or race, there are no legal protections for political views. If you disagree with your boss, you're risking yourself. If you agree with your boss, you might be alienating a future boss. There's no winning.
- rexpop 4y agoI wasn't aware that only universally held views were appropriate to share but even if that were so, how can one even know what is or isn't shared unless one or the other speaks first? It's funny, because if were is a ban on sharing unshared views, we could never hold any views at all!
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoThen perhaps you've never had an unpopular opinion or view on an emotionally strong topic.
- zdragnar 4y agoGet a social life? If you have none outside of your work, you are doing yourself a serious disservice. Employers come and go, and an unexpected layoff is a big enough burden to bear without a support network outside of your colleagues.
- rexpop 4y ago> Get a social life With what time? Or, rather, with what brain/blood glucose? Working 40 hour weeks leaves me with limited faculties during my comparatively brief evenings.
- zdragnar 4y agoMaybe start with a doctor or therapist? People have been doing this for a long time, and 40 hours a week really is not a long enough work week to justify having zero social interactions outside of work. If you're struggling, perhaps it is a sign of chronic fatigue or poor sleep.