[StolarStorm]

Yet there is one taboo from the earlier, prefeminist workplace that endures: women are not allowed to cry at the office. It is a potentially career-marring mistake that continues to be seen as a sign of weakness or irrationality, no less by women themselves than by men.

I don't consider it a sign of weakness or irrationality, but rather a disgusting attempt to elicit sympathy and to manipulate others.

[luckystarmom]

So when I cried when I found out that my dad had complications during surgery and could die at any moment, and when I cried when I got a phone call that my grandmohter had died I was attempting to elicit sympathy and trying to manipulate others.

Whom I always just thougt I was sad about my dad and grandmother. Silly me.

[Lazamataz]

I don't consider it a sign of weakness or irrationality, but rather a disgusting attempt to elicit sympathy and to manipulate others.

Precisely why I do it at each and every yearly review.