Message #44278

[countrigal]

Office gossip seems to be what runs this office.  Everyone seems to know something about someone and is wanting to share it.  Myself, I try to maintain a professional attitude and steer clear of these conversations.  This isn't always possible, so when I do get involved, I try to look at both sides of the story and make folks see how what they are saying may be wrong, misconstrued, or misleading... and that without the whole story and details, all they're doing is possibly hurting folks.  Unfortunately, a lot of the gossip is caused by an "Us vs. Them" mentality.  Our office seems to be the scapegoat for every other office in the facility- we're the folks people hate, as we are the monitors of a lot of processes that require a lot of work and effort on their part and they see us as doing nothing but bugging them for data, answers, etc without doing any work ourselves.  Therefore it seems to be acceptable for the office to talk about others outside of our office.  Very little inter-office discussions occur, as we really are a tight team and that is thanks to that same mentality of "Us vs Them".

CountriGal
Peer Moderator