49-year-old designer is penalized at work for keeping his personal life private, and is fed up with corporate culture treating basic boundaries as a career-ending red flag – FAIL Blog

His boss actually said, out loud, with a functioning brain, that people find it hard to have “work trust” with someone who does not overshare. These are the same institutions that use your personal disclosures against you in salary negotiations, that factor in how desperate you sound when deciding how little they can offer, and that will replace you with someone cheaper before your farewell card finishes circulating. They want your personal life as ammunition, not as connection. But yes, absolutely, tell them about your beach trip. Build that rapport.