SAM'S CENTS
Boundaries
So many of us bring our life to work without even realizing it. We take conference calls from home with our kids jetting in and out of the room. We go on vacation and send photos of our feet in a beach chair to our boss. We go on a little too long in meetings about our kids’ gymnastics feats. If we really want our colleagues to respect our family time, we need to make it extremely clear that we respect our work time too.
If you share the gory details of your life with your colleagues, they will share too, and you will all watch lost minutes turn into lost hours. When the coworkers you sit with start talking about their car payments or the fight they had with their mother-in-law, they have suddenly shaken the work boundaries and brought the whole group down with them. Save the car payment talk and the issue at school for your best friend, your spouse, or your mom.
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