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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse, ha!!
Thx, all.
I am making pasta, and I'm going to add butter, cheese, and garlic powder. It's so not good for me, but everything else is frozen! I threw everything in the freezer so it would keep while I was away. Yeah, it's an excuse; I could thaw something. I want the noodles!
My landlord fixed my heat and ordered a new fan for it. Apparently, he's totally handy, which is fantastic. That may be a repeat post; I don't remember.
Good news about your mom, Jen.
YAY Jen!
Speaking just for me, after the cancer diagnosis and especially finding out I was going to need chemotherapy, I decided I would rather tell people rather than go through 6 months of whispering and possibly incorrect information being passed around, so I made sure my bosses and HR and a few of the associates I worked with most knew exactly what was going on, plus went to one of the partners meetings and told all of them. I absolutely think that was the right decision for me and this work place, but I was the one making that decision, not anyone else, and I would have been really pissed if someone else had made it for me.
Glad to hear your good news, Jen.
My co-worker specifically authorized someone here to disclose the information about his surgery. No one shared information that they were not legally or morally allowed to share.
And I think I'm going to have to step away from the rest of this discussion.
It wasn't clear in your original post that your co-worker authorized an email.
I am just a private person, in general, and get really upset if I am the subject of gossip. And I think that co-workers speculating about my personal medical concerns is pretty much just gossip.
And I think that co-workers speculating about my personal medical concerns is pretty much just gossip.
I think most coworkers would discuss it out of concern, and it also probably differs from office to office.
When I quit my last job to move up here, I was surprised to have a lot of people talking to me about how sad it was that my father has Alzheimer's. I was pissed that it was apparently being generally discussed around senior management, and then realized it was the story my boss could tell (to herself and others) about why I was leaving that didn't reflect on her. @@
Great news, Jen.
My theory is that coworkers are going to talk, regardless, and if they don't have the correct information, they're going to make stuff up.
Plus some of them come into your office and want to hug you.