| Workplace/game mixing concern
Serious question (well, I know they're all serious, but this one is less in the vein of everyone having fun)...
I'm trying to find a diplomatic way of phrasing an awkward but unfortunate reality on our "house rules" sheet. We've got a lot of people from the office who play together, and not all at comparable position levels. Workers, supervisors, etc. (including some direct-supervisor relationships). Now, we don't promote the games through any official office communication method (i.e., we don't send out department emails, announcements, etc.), but lately we've gotten concerned that some people might be getting a little too comfortable in the casual setting. Saying things about coworkers and situations that are treading dangerously close to the line. Not that the game's any diferent from any other social gathering, but -- speaking in terms of legal liability -- our supervisors can't completely take off the "manager hat." For example, if someone mentions a sexual harrassment problem at work, a manager or supervisor legally has to act on it.
I don't want to come down hard, saying, "No talking about work" (which would frankly be impractical), but we do want to put up some kind of alert. There's certainly a reasonable amount of confidentiality, but it's not fair to people to make them think that (to paraphrase Vegas) everything at the table stays at the table, when realistically, that's not always the case.
Any ideas?  | 
