Conference Room Confessionals

When you're stuck at work and really need a moment to yourself, the last bastion of sanity lies in the blessed conference room. And thanks to the 'private' setting on corporate calendars... no one has to know that you've really just scheduled a sanity session for yourself as opposed to an important meeting to discuss deadlines or revenue growth.

My co-workers and I use this little trick as a time to get together and have what we like to call, 'conference room confessionals'. I could tell today was a particularly rough day for folks as I participated in not one or two, but FOUR conference room confessionals. Co-workers dished on everything from romance problems to bad boss problems to unrealistic revenue goals to inept teammates.

It was a fascinating outpouring of all the crazy sh*t that goes on in the work place. It was also comforting, in a way, to see that we all have challenges. We're not alone on this journey. And as such, we really should start leaning on each other more for advice, guidance, support and sanity. We're far more similar than we are different.