[Intro: Corporate Male Voice]
"Be bold. Be proud. Be honestly you."
Orange letters, company blue.
They hung the slogan by the clock:
"Bring Your Whole Self to Work."

[Verse 1: Female Lead]
Bring dog photos, sourdough, marathon times.
Pin up your playlist; decorate your desk.
Bring pronouns, recipes, holiday lights.
Leave staffing levels out of the request.
Bring every harmless corner of your life.
Keep weekend pages, wages, fear outside.

[Pre-Chorus: Female Lead]
The smiling font stood taller than the door.
Each week, the list of safe truths shrank some more.

[Chorus: Female Lead]
Bring your whole self to work.
Hang your anger with your shirt.
Bring your hobbies, bring your grin;
leave the hard part in the bin.
Tell the truth, but keep it small.
Whole self? They don't want it all.

[Verse 2: Female Lead]
Nina said, "The weekend pager wrecks my sleep."
Her manager sent a breathing-app link.
A father asked to leave on time on Fridays;
they praised him, then passed him over.
The poster watched each careful sentence land,
its stock-photo smile more open than the room.

[Pre-Chorus: Female Lead]
I crossed out "whole" and wrote, "Then let them speak."

[Pre-Chorus: Male Baritone]
Victor said, "The tone is much too sharp this week."

[Chorus: Female Lead]
Bring your whole self to work.
Hang your anger with your shirt.
Bring your hobbies, bring your grin;
leave the hard part in the bin.
Tell the truth, but keep it small.
Whole self? They don't want it all.

[Instrumental Break: Stop-Start Guitar and Pager Percussion]

[Bridge: Female Lead]
One corner peeled above the copier tray.
I pulled the poster down and cleared the wall.
Then Nina taped her written comment there:
"If honesty changes nothing, why share?"

[Final Chorus: Female Lead with Gang Vocals]
Bring your whole self to work.
Bring the facts they call a risk.
Bring the hours, names and dates;
don't trim truth to fit their taste.
Every voice along this wall
brings the part they feared most of all.

[Outro: Female Lead]
The poster folded in the bin.
Nina's plain white page stayed pinned.
Bring your whole self to work.
