How much of your personal life do you share with your co-workers?

[SarahB]

For me, they know I have children, am married, and it my second marriage, what my husband does, and that's about it. I talk about my kids sometimes, but I never really talk about my political views or any other aspect of my personal life. I just want to do my job and I hate stupid drama, so I avoid it like that plague. I don't get into gossip either. People think I'm kind of boring, but I like it that way. I don't want to be stuck being friends with people simply due to proximity. :D

[Faygo Kid]

1. The good parts only. Period.

Pets, when my significant other travels, occasionally what we are doing over the weekend. Never anything even remotely resembling turmoil.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Only the most offensive, sickening, fear-inducing stomach-churning parts.

I don't like my coworkers getting chummy.

[SarahB]

4. I'd love to do that.

Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to find a way to gross out a bunch of nurses.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Cleveland Steamers with midget diseased prostitutes is a good start.

Then you can work up to making urination videos for Vivid Video, being a bukkake model, and cooking food for the homeless without washing your hands after prolonged fondling of your bum. Eviscerating feral cats while they're still alive then setting the remains on fire and leaving sacks of them in the hallways of nursing homes. Searching the web to find out all the sexual predators in your area, and tracking them to have unprotected sex with them.

Go for the stuff like that.

[SarahB]

16. No doubt that might work.

:scared:

[Deja Q]

3. I continue to surprise and confound my coworkers every day.

And I don't say that with the sin of pride either... O8)

[skyblue]

5. They don't know diddley squat about me.

Which is a shame and pretty sad. There's a huge gap, and it's because I'm paranoid and because I don't have much in common. Except for some. And then I don't have time to talk.

[jakefrep]

6. Not much.

My coworkers gossip like there's no tomorrow. I don't want or need much of my personal life broadcast.

[TK421]

8. They only know about my political views...but ALL of them share those views

I'm lucky, in that sense

[Redstone]

9. Back when I had co-workers, VERY little. None of their business, unless I got to

be friends with individual ones.

So what I'm saying is that the way you handle it makes a lot of sense to me.

Redstone

[SarahB]

12. Yeah.

I'd rather people think I'm boring than have them stick their noses in my business.

[KG]

10. i have no life, so there's very little to share.

:(

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I've been at my present job for nearly 14 years. I've developed

friendships with my boss and many of my co-workers over the years. There are some things about my private beliefs that I like to keep to myself, but most of them know about my family and what I do for entertainment and that I'm pretty liberal, although I don't talk a lot of politics at work. The guys have learned that I don't gossip much and I can keep a secret, so they share a lot of things with me. It's a small company without much turnover, so we all get to know one another pretty well.

[SarahB]

15. I think when you don't gossip,

people know they can trust you. I had one of the secretaries ask me my opinion related to a personal situation with her. I gave it and then shut my mouth about it.

[prole_for_peace]

13. my best friends are current and former co-workers...

there is a group of 6 of us that share just about everything. we have weekly lunches and bi-weekly dinners.

i love them so much and have never worked with such a fun and beautiful group of women.

[RetroLounge]

14. Depends on which co-worker

I have been there 8 years and have gotten close to a couple of them, so we talk about our lives outside the office.

Others? Not much.

RL

[Generic Brad]

17. Very little

My political and religious beliefs are too upsetting to my family for them to even want to deal with me. I don't need a new set of people telling me I'm going to burn forever in hell because I'm not a church going Republican.

[femmocrat]

18. Very little.

My kids graduated from the school district where I teach, so people do still ask about them. That's about it! No one even knew that my mom passed away recently. I've always been very private though.... I don't really have any close friends at work.

[triguy46]

19. Very little. That's the way I like it.

[TK421]

20. Does it count if I say I want to kill them?

:D

[flvegan]

21. Quite a bit, actually.

I work with a very small regional group. Maybe 20 of us now. We're like a little family. Couple of them are very, close dear friends I've known for 10 plus years. One is an ex-girlfriend.

Now on the national level for my company...hells no.