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Originally Posted by maleficent
If they are work colleagues.. how would you even have this information? Most people I'd hope leave all that baggage at the door - the workplace is the last place for a discussion of feelings...
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Hey Mal... you are probably right, with most jobs. But don't forget the odd jobs I've held... one would be a high school teacher, where I knew the emotional state, family situation, and dating experience of just about every student I had. Not to mention English teachers never shut up about their personal experiences (particularly sexual ones)... so there was no "baggage check" at any door to that school. I admit, sometimes I wish there was one!!
My second job is that of a social scientist, where our whole work is to study other people's behavior and draw conclusions from it. These "baggage" topics are exactly what we are interested in, particularly my branch (cultural anthropology). So for me it's not a big stretch to talk about personal topics, since I interview people on those topics for a living!
But for all but one person in my dep't (she's the only other cultural anthropologist; the rest are archaeologists who study dead people, and biological anthros who study apes), people would rather talk about TV shows than themselves, or to ask someone an honest, caring question about a personal topic. They try to beat each other to quoting the funniest thing on TV last night... I guess I'm just not into that.
That said, "I'm Rick James, Bitch!" (see, that was over a year ago)