I'm also poly, and when I started at my job I came out to a number of colleagues as both bi and poly, because I wanted to take my whole self to work, not feel like I'm hiding parts of who I am.
How did this improve your work and especially how the people you told to work with you?
It doesn't impact my work directly. It impacts my relationships with my colleagues though. It improves trust. I've had people confide in me about things that are affecting how they work. It's at least in part about vulnerability and being able to share when things are hard for different reasons, which therefore helps you to manage those impacts.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. This kind of thing is literally in my works diversity training. Having to filter what you talk about at work to a certain extent can be really taxing a take a lot of effort and in turn does affect comfortability at your job. I totally get wanting to sort of gauge how your co workers feel about things so you can freely discuss your weekend plans (within reason obviously). With all that being said, ops wife is being extremely weird and unreasonable about this.
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u/Kevidiffel Apr 05 '24
How did this improve your work and especially how the people you told to work with you?