Professional behaviour v bring your whole self to work

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So I've recently been told that I should not be afraid to 'bring my whole self to work'. However, although not stated explicitly in the employee handbook, I'm also pretty sure that I'm not allowed to shout 'grow up you sheltered, over-privileged, whiny vagina' at my colleagues.

As I am new to the private sector and the only working class person in a sea of very middle class recent graduates, this is a huge issue for me. Any advice?

Then at least its out in the open, everyone knows where they stand and the person can find a workplace that will accept that.

Standard typical nonsical corporate bullshit!

Hahaha I work wheee there are potentially lots of little ears. No they don’t want my whole self at work because parts of my self like a bloody good drink, sings very badly and swears like a sailor. Other parts are very clumsy and trips over (so I have to try to suppress that part too). Kitten also takes no prisoners and will happily tell rude people where to go.

Bring your whole self indeed. Whatever happened to professionalism?

I tried bringing my whole self to work. Unfortunately the bit of me that I used to leave at home doesn't really like work, is short tempered and doesn't suffer fools gladly. It didn't go well, so now I just leave her on the sofa with a cup of tea and a Kitkat whilst I go to work and pretend she doesn't exist.

My colleagues couldn't handle the amount of farting and swearing I do at home and, if my DH was as bloody useless as one of the partners I work for, I'd have run out of unflattering adjectives a long time ago. I think I'll stick with my work persona 😁

I agree with this. My previous place of work had a big push on this for a while. I had some colleagues who had in the past felt they needed to hide the fact that they were gay/single parents etc so obviously from that respect perfectly reasonable. But what it actually became was a sort of weird additional requirement to have an acceptable hobby to feature in corporate newsletters etc. There was very definitely a 'correct' form of authentic self to be brought to work.

Oh yeah, they want acceptable hobbies like 'running' and 'cooking' and 'playing football with my kids' not 'reading books on how the patriarchy ruins everything for everyone and laughing at the drama on the local community fb sites'

I guess that was what the NSPCC rubber wanker was told to do.