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I find good gossip could be about a slacker co-worker, or a boss giving unreasonable demands. I call these good since they're just means to vent legitimate and valid gripes. Venting is healthy.
But bad gossip is frivolous stuff like x co-worker has a bad hair day, or y co-worker is going through a divorce, etc.
I partake in good gossip, but never in bad gossip. it's not in my personality to do so.
Do you do good gossip, bad gossip, or a mixture of both?
Good gossip is hearing what people are saying about you so you can be prepared to fight the gossip when you boss comes to you with what he/she has heard. In the past I ignored what people were saying about me at work, which was a terrible mistake. By the time the gossip about me got to my boss my reputation was nearly ruined and he believed it.
A good gossip has nothing to do with you and you also make no comments about the topic either, you just listen at the most without making a single comment.
A bad gossip is either about you (something derogatory) or something you contribute with a derogatory comment of your own which may come back to haunt you (and often does).
I disagree that any gossip is healthy. A gossip is defined as: "one who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts. Rumor or report of an intimate nature."
Usually, the venting you refer to is best left alone, fire breeds fire.
While working, I find it is best to keep conversations to how to best serve one's employers. Break time conversations are best restricted to the happy times one experienced recently, or anticipates in the near future. People have enough pain in their lives, dwelling on them in conversation doesn't alleviate pain. Talking about ones problems with someone that can do nothing to help is spreading it around, unmercifully, and asking others to participate in your pity party.
All gossip to me is bad. I don't partake in gossip of any kind because I'm too busy to care about what goes on in someone's life.
Ditto! Amen to that.
I find that any time I slip something more personal about myself in the work place it always ends up backfiring on me. I don't know why. It's like people at the work place are like a bunch of piranhas waiting to get that bite. I never understood that mentality but that's how most work places are. I ignore all of the gossiping and just get my work done. It sucks though because then you end up getting thrown out of the tight high school-ish social circle that people develop at these places. I'd rather do that though then participate in all of that childish crap.
Wrong! You need to know what people are saying about you before your boss hears it, believes it and calls you out on it. Good employees always know where they stand with their peers.
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Originally Posted by NorthsideJacksonville
People who key into workplace gossip are the least productive and would be fired with the quickness where I work.
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