• beyondtheveil said on Jul 01, 2008....

  Ed- My coworkers and I never had to be concerned about 'corporate-approved behavior'. We worked in the field and politeness and helpfulness were in order, but most of us were that way anyway. If by revealing you mean my 'naturalness of personality', I was like the others which means if you met someone from work off the job, you saw the same person with the exception of wearing apparel.
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Jul 01, 2008....

  I admit when I first start a job I tend to be more reserved and some people get the impression that I'm really proper.  Then they get to know me ................
   
  I am who I am at home and at work, but I do tone it down a little at work.  Since I do go to lunch with coworkers they get me "full strength" in small doses.

• Eilan said on Jul 01, 2008....

  When I was teaching, I had to present two faces at work: one to my students and one to my colleagues. I'd say I was more formal/professional around my students, though a handful of students who took multiple classes from me over a period of a couple of years addressed me by my first name. It didn't bother me that much; if it did, I wouldn't have allowed it.
  
  Aside from a couple of people who were already my friends outside of work, I didn't interact with my colleagues that much. At my former employer, adjuncts were pretty much excluded from campus life, though we did attend the occasional meeting. On the plus side, we were also pretty much left alone unless students were complaining.
  

• Lucytorial said on Jul 01, 2008....

  I'm always myself, its better to shock them up front rather than later.... but thats because my current workplace is relaxed however when I was in law??? different story, I had to monitor myself quite a bit and did NOT want to see any of them outside of work.. bunch a bloody lawyers...

• queenparanoia said on Jul 01, 2008....

  i dunno... i haven't got the job yet...lol... =)

• antithesis said on Jul 02, 2008....

  I like my true self better than my professional part. This is because I am expected to behave in a certain way at work which is a bit stressful sometimes. Sometimes, work place is like a stage for me where I get to act. But the thing is Im not an actress. So the moment I get out from my workplace, I feel relieved...back to my comfort zone. In my defense, Im not pretentious but the corporate world is like a jungle where you have to be fierce to survive, always wear a shield and sword as you go. And I prefer lying on my back at the beach and watch the sun set than be in a rat race with bi-atches.  Excuse my word, Ed. Yeah this question is posted appropriately when I have had too much of office politics.
  

• Lioness said on Jul 03, 2008....

  I can say that I've grown and matured in my present job. I've learned to be assertive just the way I wanted, one thing I cannot do when I was younger because I was so shy. I get to interact with my colleagues during lunch time, where most of them talk about their personal lives and have a good laugh once in a while.
  
  We're generally "buddies" here, although we don't hang out on parties or activities outside our office.
  
  
  

• silverwhisper said on Jul 03, 2008....

  beyond: OK, am i alone in being completely intrigued by that last sentence? :D and yes, i meant naturalness of personality. somehow, i suspected you might say something like that. :>
  
  u-i: yeah, i usually do the same as you. "full strength" in small doses--i like that way of putting it. :D
  
  eilan: my sister is an instructor at a private college who notices that she's clearly become older than her students b/c despite her entreaties to do so, most of them now refuse to refer to her as other than "dr [surname]". :> and you always struck me as someone who keeps to herself IRL.
  
  tobi-lee: yeah, i can see what you mean re: law firms vs now--it's all about appearances a lot in a law firm, isn't it?
  
  sis: but you do now, don't you? :D
  
  antithesis: hey, good to see you here! i like my true self better than my real self too. i've always found that avoiding office politics where possible is best: it's amazing how useful the internet is for changing conversational topics, i've found. :D
  
  lioness: good to see you again, it's been too long! at my workplace, we're generally a pretty fun bunch and we've started going out as a group after hours but we only do that on a monthly basis.
  
  to answer my own question: i'm generally pretty buttoned-up. i let myself be funny, make smart alec comments, but i try not to discuss politics at work (a big problem for me!) and of course, i don't share what i write. :D mostly, i do as u-i does.
  
  ed

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 03, 2008....

  Ed- Concerning the last sentence - we had the option of wearing uniform shirts with an identifying patch. The shirts and laundry were free, so many wore them on the job. And you didn't see very many girls wearing their work boots off the job. 

• Lucytorial said on Jul 03, 2008....

  Yes Ed it is, and bearing ones breasts (lovely ones) in the kind of clothes I like was not appropriate... still, seeing an old lawyer stumble into a chair always did make me laugh!

  I keep some stuff private Ed but apart from that I'm an open book, I have a motor mouth, fowl mouth, blunt mouth, funny mouth and also a charming mouth at work and at home...

• silverwhisper said on Jul 04, 2008....

  beyond: heh...i'm sure you can imagine how that sentence read a bit differently when undercaffeinated... :D
  
  tobi-lee: bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! of course you keep some stuff private--that's the stuff that really isn't anyone else's business at work. i understand that, i think. :>
  
  ed

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 04, 2008....

  Ed- Shame on me, I completely missed that. But when you write it, it's difficult to catch. 

• silverwhisper said on Jul 04, 2008....

  o, i've done the same myself more times than i care to remember... :>
  
  ed

• johnlove said on Jul 10, 2008....

  A great deal of the time when someone else is about...way too much...

• silverwhisper said on Jul 11, 2008....

  well now, if that isn't mysterious yet intriguing... :>
  
  ed

• tbs230 said on Jul 19, 2008....

  Hi ed!!! People think I'm  nice and soft spoken at work...psshh!! They just don't know me yet!

• silverwhisper said on Jul 19, 2008....

  omg--tbs! good to see you again!
  
  heh...i believe that's called lulling them into a false sense of security, no? :D
  
  ed

• tbs230 said on Jul 20, 2008....

  lol, yes, yes it is!!

• silverwhisper said on Jul 21, 2008....

  :D

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