To ask what you wouldn't want your work colleagues finding out about you (light hearted)

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I would hate it if my work colleagues knew I collected stamps. :D :D

I don't collect, collect them. I bought a pack of mixed used stamps a few years ago to do an art project and then realised how amazing they were. So I occassionally browse for unusual/nice ones in ebay and the like. I don't know anything about them but my little stamp albums make me happy. :D :D

That I will walk out at the drop of a hat the moment my mental health feels compromised.

how difficult my life is outside work
I can't wait to leave and I daydream of handing in my resignation letter
How much I hate the game players, self-righteous twats, blame passers and back stabbers
That some of the old school peoples ideas are wrong, but of course cannot be challenged

Ooh

Not that light hearted

My first thought was that they know me pretty well, but then I read this...

That I once rinsed out my knickers and dried them in the staffroom microwave

And would probably have kept that quiet too 😂😂

@GreySheep I've got a job interview too! But only been in my job 10 years...

I think they too will be surprised if I leave!

Good luck to you @Mammyloveswine for tomorrow. I’m terrified and can’t imagine doing an interview after all these years let alone actually leaving but I’m also excited too. Fingers crossed for us both.

Good luck!

@GreySheep massive good luck! Please let us know how it went.

And @Mammyloveswine !!

Thank you @AloneLonelyLoner and @GreySheep

That I used to work as a stripper in my younger years and was bloody good at it!
Now as a mother of 3 kids I am very insecure about my looks and wear baggy clothing to hide my body.

I don't think there is anything certain work colleagues don't know about me

I wouldn't want management to know that I print out personal things at work using works printer.

But other than that I'm a pretty open book!

That I’m massively introverted, so the chances of me turning up to anything social are very small indeed.

Actually, scratch that. I would like to tell them. If I could bring myself to say ‘Please don’t invite me to anything more than a meal, and even then I might not come. It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s just that being around people absolutely drains me, and the job itself takes everything I have,’ without upsetting anyone, I would.

Thank you @AloneLonelyLoner will do 🤞

That my boss is scared of me because she did something that was against company policy and was trying to intimidate me into doing the same but I refused to back down (it involved changing grades on student reports). I have an email trail of the whole incident. The only reason I didn’t take it to HR was because she backed down in the end, but it was horrible, mean and nasty. She went right down in my estimation and I can’t take her seriously or trust her now.

That a current colleague bullied me when we worked at a different firm 10 years ago. I don't entirely trust that the massive chip on her shoulder which caused it has gone, so I'm always a bit wary of her.

That DH is not my first husband. I know divorce isn’t a big thing nowadays but it was a painful time in my life and to be divorced by 25 seems odd to me 🤦‍♀️

Oh and that to earn extra money I work as a psychic on a text messaging service.

That I fancy one of my colleagues

That I had a fairly wild time in my early twenties!!!

Also that I have trauma related anxiety. They probably would be really supportive but I’m having treatment and doing well so I don’t want to risk any kind of stigma.
(Sorry that bit wasn’t light hearted!)