Avoiding oversharing is so hard … a while back at an after-work dinner, after a couple of beers, people were sharing accounts of work social events that had got out of hand.
One guy had a story that his department had been labeled delinquents, after they had all got drunk and jumped in a lake … that sounded like my sort of crazy. So, I mentioned how my at-the-time girlfriend had been caught having sex with the CEO’s trophy wife at a work christmas party, which even at the time I thought was funny.
Well, that completely killed the conversation. In the past I’ve kept quiet, and then been asked why I’m not being sociable. It would appear I can’t win :-/
One is cheeky social fun with mates, the other involves multiple taboo and touchy subjects (specially in corporate spaces). Like sex and hierarchy and cheating.
Avoiding oversharing is so hard … a while back at an after-work dinner, after a couple of beers, people were sharing accounts of work social events that had got out of hand.
One guy had a story that his department had been labeled delinquents, after they had all got drunk and jumped in a lake … that sounded like my sort of crazy. So, I mentioned how my at-the-time girlfriend had been caught having sex with the CEO’s trophy wife at a work christmas party, which even at the time I thought was funny.
Well, that completely killed the conversation. In the past I’ve kept quiet, and then been asked why I’m not being sociable. It would appear I can’t win :-/
it’s so hard to avoid it cause it doesn’t sound any wrong in our minds
That and, apparently, my idea of what’s normal is very different from most of society.
Tbf I wouldnt count those two as comparable.
Maybe it seemed so in the situation but reading it like this in a vacuum…Not equal at all.
I don’t really understand why, but ok. See, this is why socialising is difficult for me :-/
One is cheeky social fun with mates, the other involves multiple taboo and touchy subjects (specially in corporate spaces). Like sex and hierarchy and cheating.
Ah ok, I was thinking jumping in a lake was already way over any line, because it’s something I’d consider more off-limits than casual sex :-/
Hierarchy and cheating never even occurred to me