The Hidden Curriculum of Work: What Nobody Explains About Trust, Status, and Getting Things Done

Work is full of unnamed expectations. You deliver the task, then discover that someone wanted a decision, an early warning, a different owner, or proof that the handoff would actually work. The missing rule can make capable people feel as if they are failing a test nobody explained. The Hidden Curriculum of Work makes that operating reality visible. Through workplace scenes from service teams, hospitals, schools, client work, public systems, and everyday projects, it shows how trust is built after a promise changes; why status changes the cost of speaking; how to distinguish a meeting from its hidden job; where a decision really lives; and why "done" is more than sending a file. This is not a manual for performing confidence or becoming permanently available. It is a practical, humane guide to making the work clearer, safer, and easier to depend on-one live rule at a time.