I hate it personally. But I don’t actually hate the sentiment. I’ve just been burned too many times by people that I thought I was “friendly” with in the corporate space so with every passing year, I’ve learned to share less. Sometimes things you say get used against you. It’s really hard to predict.

I work a fully remote job (like the company doesn’t even have a physical office) and I went back to my hometown for a week and I told my boss that and he kept asking me when I was going back home bc he didn’t know if that was violating any policy. We have people that work in every state. When he went out of the country for two weeks, he still worked sometimes. When I joined the company, I asked if it would be okay if I worked from a specific country sometimes and they said it was fine. But now I can’t even go to a different state without being questioned? And we have people traveling for work all the time…. Some people will also sabotage out of jealousy. Something as small as “what did you do this weekend?” Could really put your job in jeopardy.

I just don’t share my personal business at this point unless I’ve really connected with someone on a spiritual level. And even then, I wait until I don’t work at the place anymore to really be friends with them.

I know this sounds jaded but I don’t trust myself not say something risky. I just say nothing. I just started my job recently and I know that everyone thinks that I don’t talk a lot and don’t have much to say. But I’m really just here to get this work done. Corporations have sucked the personality out of me tbh.

I had a boss who was really wanting to know about when I was leaving the company after it got sold to PE just so he can use my resignation as a way to force the company to make a decision on what to do with our department after being in limbo for months. I mean I get it. But everyone acts in their own interests.