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I had a supervisory training a while back from our HR person. She said that people are whoever they were in junior high school. So you should expect them to behave as junior high schoolers.
Sounds like you have a lot of immature gossips there. I keep the workplace about business too, and cannot stand the gossipy drama of some.
I've worked in many, in many industries, over the past 20 years and never experienced ANYTHING like this type of soap opera.
I was thinking the same thing. Twenty-six years for me and I've never observed anything like this. It sounds to me like some of these people have way too much free time on their hands.
This is the reason sexual harrassment training exists. It creates a hostile work environment for co-workers to be discussing one another's sex life and directly speaking to you about yours. Borat shouldn't have said anything to you, especially in the office.
Sadly, I have worked in an environment that was very high school in nature and people gossiped like crazy about everyone else. It was the front office of a pro sports team.
Me either, as least not the expectation that there's something wrong with you if you haven't been banging someone in the break room.
Of course, it could be that just this one weird woman is stirring everything up. One toxic person with a willing follower (like Mohammed) can poison a whole office. Or Mohammed could be the actual gossip who is throwing Melissa under the bus.
It depends on the industry too, some professions are more "professional" than others, and some workplaces are as well. I've spent time in retail which isn't terribly known for professionalism.
2. Either your assessment of her as not being gossipy is wrong, or Mohammad lied about her being the source of the rumor.
3. "She's never heard of you sleeping with anyone at the office." What??!! Are offices soap operas? That's a bizarre expectation. How have your personal and work lives become intertwined? I've never heard of that, except on TV. Where do you live, that a thing like that would be considered normal?
3. Yes, it's 9th grade in your office. Ugh. Maybe that's part of the territory in an office where the personal and the professional become intertwined.
1) It wouldn't shock me, but she has a boyfriend, so it is unlikely that anything good of it will come of it in the foreseeable future.
2) Mohammad is a bit of s--t talker which is why I mentioned that, but I don't think he was pulling my leg about that. He is very close to Melissa and I couldn't see him just throwing her under the bus like that. Also, it wasn't so much of a rumor from my understanding just a conversation between the two of them that piqued his interest.
3) Yes. It is really like that. My office has about 400 staff members across three floors. The majority of the worker bees like myself are in our twenties and thirties. The staff includes several married couples who meet at my office, several boyfriend and girlfriend couples, and I'd say about half the single employees have had at least a single one-night stand with another staff member. There is very little turnover and most of us have known each other for years.
4) Typical work gossip. Seems to happen everywhere. Also, there are a lot of work events sponsored by the company (usually with free alcohol), so we often get to mingle with each other outside of work. Crossed with the relatively young average age of the employees it creates a very familiar attitude towards each other and sometimes it seems more like high school than the office of a major telecommunications company.
I would be incredibly vexed if someone came up to me and said something like that. If it happened in real life, I would have chewed them out like they're never been chewed out in their life.
They both sound like idiots.
Go bang Melissa and don't call her back.
I would be incredibly vexed if someone came up to me and said something like that. If it happened in real life, I would have chewed them out like they're never been chewed out in their life.
They both sound like idiots.
Go bang Melissa and don't call her back.
I'd be bothered, too. Mohammad and Melissa both sound rude. Additionally, Mohammad is tactless.
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