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Originally posted by: acemcmac
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I enjoy when people at work talk about their families,pets,hobbies, vacation plans. I like it when they share a joke or amusing story about something that's happened in their daily lives.I don't like it when they group together to assinate the character of another co-worker who isn't there to defend themselves or to assign negative motives to another co-workers actions.

Sharing makes work peers feel sort of like family, malcious gossip makes people feel like crap.
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well put.

the gossip and backstabbing at my workplace is disgraceful. It is not uncommon for other managers to come over to my IT deparment when out manager is off and simply canabalize our whole staff because "rumor has it that we are having too much fun" and send us off to do trivial tasks while the owner of the company rolls up his sleves to beat our asses in because our work isn't done on time.
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WTF Why would you guys put up with that? You're there to do your job, not someone elses'.
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: acemcmac
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I enjoy when people at work talk about their families,pets,hobbies, vacation plans. I like it when they share a joke or amusing story about something that's happened in their daily lives.I don't like it when they group together to assinate the character of another co-worker who isn't there to defend themselves or to assign negative motives to another co-workers actions.

Sharing makes work peers feel sort of like family, malcious gossip makes people feel like crap.
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well put.

the gossip and backstabbing at my workplace is disgraceful. It is not uncommon for other managers to come over to my IT deparment when out manager is off and simply canabalize our whole staff because "rumor has it that we are having too much fun" and send us off to do trivial tasks while the owner of the company rolls up his sleves to beat our asses in because our work isn't done on time.
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WTF Why would you guys put up with that? You're there to do your job, not someone elses'.
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We get paid way too much to be picky about what I get told to do.

This just in: The controller and one of the sales representatives are screaming at eachother right outside my office. I closed my door because I need to concentrate on what I'm doing and I'm going nuts under the pressure of having to catch up from the outright sabatoge of other departments stealing our workers.

The clincher? Open door policy. I could face very serious reprimand for having my door closed. Forget the two 55 year old hags out there screaming at each other at the top of their lungs... the most serious offence commiteed in the last 15 minutes was my closing my door.
 
Start taking swings at your face... bang your head against the wall... yell profanity at your monitor...
 
NO EFFING WAY!!!!

AS I TYPED THAT

the owner of my company was outside the door to my office.... he came in 30 second after I hit reply

the conversation

him, putting his hand on my shoulder: I dont ever want to see this door closed again, I have my reasons and I don't have to explain them to you

me: those two have been screaming at each other for hte last half hour. I cant concentrate, I closed that door.

he ignored me and walked out
 
people gossip because theyre unhappy with themselves, and thier own lives. best way to stop gossip:

dont participate
dont react when its about you

as soon as people know you couldnt give two sh!ts what others say, the gossip usually stops, or doesnt make it back to you. either way, problem solved. unless you really care about it.

my stance on gossip has always been: if theyre talking about me, at least theyre leaving someone else alone.
who gives a fvck what others think?
 
Originally posted by: Descartes
Reminds me of this quote:

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
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I don't remember who wrote it. I'm continually disgusted by how so many in a professional environment choose to gossip, but it's usually propagated by those who have little life of their own.
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Consider that sigged in a moment. 😉

I work in an office with all women except one other guy who travels a lot. The amount of absurd arguements, petty rivalries and tattling would put any highschool to shame. We aren't just talking young women either. They range from 20-50ish. I am often amazed how such small mindedness can infest itself wherever a group of women are together on a regular basis. I've witnessed this same phenomenon in past jobs as well where women were the majority.

 
I too work in an office with about 40 women ages 22-65 or so, and it is INSANE the amount of crap that goes through this place

I am pretty much IT for the whole office, so I have to see EVERYONE eventually, whether it be for training or to fix a problem, whatever. So, in turn, I make sure I am nice to everyone.

However, if I go to lunch with one group of women, all i hear about is how this girl is a slut, or how this woman doesn't take care of her kids, or who's sleeping with who...

Now i just eat by myself and spend the rest of the lunch time surfing anandtech, I don't want to know any of that crap nor do i want people to think i'm involved in any of it
 
Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Originally posted by: Descartes
Reminds me of this quote:

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Click to expand...

I don't remember who wrote it. I'm continually disgusted by how so many in a professional environment choose to gossip, but it's usually propagated by those who have little life of their own.
Click to expand...

Consider that sigged in a moment. 😉

I work in an office with all women except one other guy who travels a lot. The amount of absurd arguements, petty rivalries and tattling would put any highschool to shame. We aren't just talking young women either. They range from 20-50ish. I am often amazed how such small mindedness can infest itself wherever a group of women are together on a regular basis. I've witnessed this same phenomenon in past jobs as well where women were the majority.
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yep. its a universal theme with 99% of the women ive ever worked with. when theres more than one woman, theres gossip and drama.

the pack i work with now are the biggest sh!t talkers ive ever met. basically, who ever isnt working that day is the brunt of it all. its sickening how 2 faced they are.

they also love to tell each other how wrong they live thier lives, and you dont even have to ask for thier opinion. for example, one woman is an expert on raising kids and marital problems. funny that, with 2 divorces under her belt, and 2 kids in jail for drugs and theft. yet she still tries to shove her opinion down the others throats.
 
I guess I should consider myself lucky. I work in an office of 10 women and two guys (including myself). No gossip at all. I think that could because of my boss. The type of people who would gossip don't mesh well with my boss and they don't last long.
 
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
I too work in an office with about 40 women ages 22-65 or so, and it is INSANE the amount of crap that goes through this place

I am pretty much IT for the whole office, so I have to see EVERYONE eventually, whether it be for training or to fix a problem, whatever. So, in turn, I make sure I am nice to everyone.

However, if I go to lunch with one group of women, all i hear about is how this girl is a slut, or how this woman doesn't take care of her kids, or who's sleeping with who...

Now i just eat by myself and spend the rest of the lunch time surfing anandtech, I don't want to know any of that crap nor do i want people to think i'm involved in any of it
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Wow! LOL....man your workplace mirrors mine to a tee and I am in IT too so I am exactly the same way! 🙂
 
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