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Hiding Your True Self At Work

Hiding true self harms career and sense of belonging. Hiding your true self at work can damage your career and reduce your sense of belonging in the workplace, a new study suggests. Source 5x.

Work Self True Hiding

There are many aspects of my true self that I hade at work. I have found out over the years that it does not matter what I know because the work place could care less about my abilities. I am unhappy here in my work but no one else will pay me what I am making and I do make some difference in the world doing what I do here. I am almost at the end of my rope with all that is going on.

Hiding Your True Self At Work History & Civil Business Politics

My true self would never let the kind of incompetent decision making I constantly see among the upper management go unremarked.

No, you damn well cannot replace a veteran designer with 20 years of experience with a kid right out of college and expect the same kind of efficiency. You'd need to hire three, and get lucky, to come close.

But telling my boss that I know damn well I could do his job better in many respects isn't exactly liable to help my career. So yeah, I'm not sure what the point of this study is.

Work Self True Hiding

Oh, there are certainly aspects of my true self I hide at work. My immediate boss, the COO, has made a lot bad decisions. I counsel him but once made I just go with the flow and pray our shy CEO finally fires him.

In the Army poor decisions like his would get people killed. I'd have never let the fly. But these are simply business decisions, no ones life is on the line. Now, if he tried to get into my business unit and make decisions, where lives are in the line, well that wouldn't fly and I'd probably be looking for a new job.