The Cut - The Costs of Oversharing With Your Boss

I used to work at a large corporate office with a rigid top-down structure. My boss made it clear she wasn’t interested in how we spent our free time. There was no “How was your weekend?” or “Where did you go for the holidays?” We were there to work for her, period.

I first heard the phrase “Bring your whole self to work” at my next job, a start-up where we were matched with mentors and given a budget to go out to dinner with our teams. My manager became (and still is) a good friend. Every quarter, we attended boisterous off-sites where we did bonding exercises about our Myers-Briggs types. It was way more fun than my previous workplace, and I was a lot more productive there in no small part because I felt so supported.

These before-and-after photos show the scale of destruction in Ukraine. All that Ikea wood has to come from somewhere. It’s always nice to see a kid get hooked on phonics. But what is the best age to learn to read? On the pandemic front, the updated National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan calls for the U.S. to move forward safely, back to more normal routines. If you use one of these commonly leaked passwords, you’re just asking to get hacked. Pamela Adlon’s Better Things, now airing its final season, made art out of single motherhood. Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny are assassins trying to kill each other in the trailer for Bullet Train and we’re all in. And last (and least), feeling grateful for Spencer Pratt doing TikTok commentary on The Hills — it’s a good little break from the news cycle.

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