I just started a new job and they have this rule where we don’t talk about our personal life. It’s a little weird, I don’t know what is personal and not personal life. We are a small office of only about 8 people, but it’s just so hard to have relationships with people when you can’t talk about what I did over the weekend, etc. Does anyone have any experience with this? We are mixed foreigners and Japanese.
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I've been working in what the Japanese call an international preschool for about 20 years now and this rule exists here as well although not as enforced as it was about 15 years ago. It is silly rule although when there are co-workers who cannot do their job due to talking too much, I can see the validity to the rule. I think that it's important to communicate with co-workers because communication is what we as humans do and need!!!