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JessW
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Re: Week of March 22-Office gossip
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March 22, 2004, 12:28:22 pm »
I quite agree - it is part of human nature, but it can also be very damaging. I myself am suffering from two knock-on effects of this at the moment.
One is the tell-tale (who spends most of the time gossiping about others while in direct earshot of the office manager and they don't care what they say). The other is as a result of this the "what would the neighbours think" scenario from my boss who doesn't realise that the holier than thou attitude can do just as much damage as the tell-tale.
I don't condone gossip in any way shape or form as a lot of the time there is either no truth to the matter or it was something completely personal which bears no relation to work or which as office 'professionals' they should be professional enough to keep confidential in the first place. It doesn't even work when names are not used - no excuse.
As you may imagine the office gossip machine tries to dig up the dirt on me at every opportunity but I refuse to take up the fight. Don't know if that is really the best policy or not. I go by my dad's mantra - if you let people know that you are not interested and will not tolerate it they might just get the hint and %£*"er off (excuse my french!)
Jess
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