does "venting" mean the same to us all?

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does "venting" mean the same to us all?
By S.E.

I posted earlier and was somewhat taken aback at how defensive people got about our rights to vent! Like Anne, I too feel like there may be a time and place to complain and whine, but we are professionals while at the workplace and so the staffroom is not the place.

Maybe it's our definition of "venting"-- for me, venting is when something bad or frustrating has happened, and I want to "get it off my chest" by bouncing it off my mentor teacher or teacher friend or family on my own time, not by going into the staffroom to complain to everyone or to start comments about how terrible a certain parent is. To me, "venting" is not "griping" or "cursing" or "ranting". That is what I mean by professional behaviour.