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What a sad world we live in...

Gigachad 3y ago
That’s the world they live in. Personally I’m fine to share basically everything with coworkers. Australia has much better legal protections for workers though.
- School-Cotton 3y ago
  I live in the US and I have normal social interactions with my coworkers, not really trying to hide my real personality. That poster is exaggerating the danger, IMO.
  - lacrimacida 3y ago
    It depends on what you need to hide. I’m an introvert and not a neurotypical and struggle wearing a mask at work for extended periods of time. I’ve adapted to display what is expected of me in those settings but it’s tiring to not be able to be onself…
- LouisSayers 3y ago
  Not just that but totally different culture. I also find that lunch and coffee are great ice breakers - otherwise an office can feel quite sterile and disconnected.
  - Gigachad 3y ago
    Yeah that's the thing about remote work I hate the most. It's so dry. To talk about anything remotely personal or spicy you have to be face to face at the cafe or something. There are a few coworkers who come in to the coworking space with me and we talk about all kinds of things and get to know each other really well. No one does this on Teams/Slack. Not being able to assess the vibe of the room and having everything permanently logged just kills any personality.
johnnyworker 3y ago
> Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as one says sometimes, our "personality package", for something. Now, this is not so true for the manual workers. The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. But what you might call the "symbol pushers", that is to say, all the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better, or nicer, word - manipulate men and signs and words, all those today have not only to sell their service but in the bargain they're to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions. -- Erich Fromm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=94s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=94s

That’s the world they live in. Personally I’m fine to share basically everything with coworkers. Australia has much better legal protections for workers though.

School-Cotton 3y ago
I live in the US and I have normal social interactions with my coworkers, not really trying to hide my real personality. That poster is exaggerating the danger, IMO.
- lacrimacida 3y ago
  It depends on what you need to hide. I’m an introvert and not a neurotypical and struggle wearing a mask at work for extended periods of time. I’ve adapted to display what is expected of me in those settings but it’s tiring to not be able to be onself…
LouisSayers 3y ago
Not just that but totally different culture. I also find that lunch and coffee are great ice breakers - otherwise an office can feel quite sterile and disconnected.
- Gigachad 3y ago
  Yeah that's the thing about remote work I hate the most. It's so dry. To talk about anything remotely personal or spicy you have to be face to face at the cafe or something. There are a few coworkers who come in to the coworking space with me and we talk about all kinds of things and get to know each other really well. No one does this on Teams/Slack. Not being able to assess the vibe of the room and having everything permanently logged just kills any personality.

johnnyworker 3y ago

> Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as one says sometimes, our "personality package", for something. Now, this is not so true for the manual workers. The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. But what you might call the "symbol pushers", that is to say, all the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better, or nicer, word - manipulate men and signs and words, all those today have not only to sell their service but in the bargain they're to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions. -- Erich Fromm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=94s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=94s