People gossiping to you at work about employee-related stuff...

[jread]

This girl at work is always gossiping about people at work (she's very disgruntled about a situation that has happened). I just kind of "yeah, uh huh" and don't really say anything. She vents and then she goes on. Well, earlier the supervisor was near and she didn't know it, and heard everything she said (it involved him). He then pulls me aside and starts asking me about it and I have to be honest (because I'm not sure what all he did and didn't hear).

This is B.S. I just want to do my job and not be involved in this crap. Have any of you been in this situation? How did you handle it?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Is the opposite of disgruntled, gruntled?

 

[imported_Trippin315]

I love office gossip. I dont know why, it is just fun to hear how stories start and then grow into elaborate plots.

 

[amdhunter]

For some strange reason, I have become a 'bartender' on my job. People just feel the need to vent when I come around...

I just listen, and don't offer opinions...then forget whatever it was I heard.

 

[spidey07]

"I don't participate in or listen to rumors or gossip, please go somewhere else or I will report you to HR."

normally shuts them up quick.

 

[iamaelephant]

If you don't want to be involved, then tell your supervisor the truth and be done with it. Next time she starts the gossiping crap just walk away.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: jread
This girl at work is always gossiping about people at work (she's very disgruntled about a situation that has happened). I just kind of "yeah, uh huh" and don't really say anything. She vents and then she goes on. Well, earlier the supervisor was near and she didn't know it, and heard everything she said (it involved him). He then pulls me aside and starts asking me about it and I have to be honest (because I'm not sure what all he did and didn't hear).

This is B.S. I just want to do my job and not be involved in this crap. Have any of you been in this situation? How did you handle it?

How is posting about this coworker any different?

 

[jread]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: jread
This girl at work is always gossiping about people at work (she's very disgruntled about a situation that has happened). I just kind of "yeah, uh huh" and don't really say anything. She vents and then she goes on. Well, earlier the supervisor was near and she didn't know it, and heard everything she said (it involved him). He then pulls me aside and starts asking me about it and I have to be honest (because I'm not sure what all he did and didn't hear).

This is B.S. I just want to do my job and not be involved in this crap. Have any of you been in this situation? How did you handle it?

How is posting about this coworker any different?

It's different because I am just posting about the situation. It's not the same as knowing the names of people and knowing who they are.

 

[bctbct]

I enjoy gossip, everyone tells me everything and I tell nobody nothing.

 

[SonnyDaze]

When the boss pulls you aside, you can either A.) Tell him everything she said or B.)Play dumb and tell the boss you were really tuning her out and didn't pay much attention to what she was saying.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: Trippin315
I love office gossip. I dont know why, it is just fun to hear how stories start and then grow into elaborate plots.

I worked in a job-shop of about 45 employees for about a year. Me and another guy were the only two people working there that weren't related to someone, or a next door neighbor to someone. We were amazed at the speed at which gossip got around the place.

I told the guy to tell someone you were standing next to me at the urinals and you looked over and noticed that I must've had a 13 inch penis.

Not 10 minutes later I walked over by my bench, which was at the other end of the shop, and the journeyman I worked under, this English guy named Stanley, looked at me and said "I can't believe what I'm hearing about your Hampton!"

 

[thegimp03]

Gossip is pretty bad where I work...what's worse is that Outlook makes it so that you can receive the same message about somebody more than once. People get so bored with their own lives that they have to talk about someone elses...