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TMI = Too Much Information
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We are taught to share as children, but sharing in the workplace has serious drawbacks.
Human Resources Director Valerie Rodriguez detailed what not to tell your boss to avoid an uncomfortable situation.
For example, your weekend plans should be kept to yourself so they can’t be used against you.
Rodriguez’s friend had previously told her manager that she was enjoying the concert, but when she called in sick because people thought she had been at a concert, she was the subject of gossip at work.
This may seem like an extreme situation, an example of a toxic work environment, but that doesn’t make the point any less valid: Revealing personal information in the workplace is likely to do more harm than good.
This is an important lesson to learn as the workplace has changed dramatically since the pandemic, with Zoom calls and Google Hangouts removing some of the barriers between work and personal life (remember virtual happy hours?!).
Add in the fact that Gen Z is the newest entrants into the workforce and is unfamiliar with typical corporate practices, and you can see that over-sharing can be problematic.
Eddie Gramajo (not pictured) was fired after 18 months at Deloitte. shapecharge/Getty, Tyler Le/BI
You may feel that abandoning your individuality at work will ultimately hold you back.
After all, building relationships with your coworkers can be your ticket to success, and hiring unique people has its advantages.
But Eddie Gramajo fell into the trap of prioritizing Deloitte’s culture over the actual work he was doing, and was fired after 18 months.
Gramajo, who worked at Dropbox before building a successful career in tech, struggled when he joined a Big 4 company as a first-generation college graduate from a low-income background. Surrounded by people who felt more comfortable in a corporate environment, he relied on one of his greatest strengths: his relationship-building skills.
It worked for a while, but the performance issues that stemmed from not being able to focus on work piled up and eventually led to my firing.
Gramajo’s experience at Deloitte was 10 years ago, but the lessons are even more relevant today: With the economic downturn and fears of layoffs looking like they’ll never go away, employees might be better off focusing on their jobs.
After all, they say friends at work are overrated.
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