Is Gossip At Work Unavoidable?

[EffedUp]

Worked with a goofy lazy ass bimbo that bytched about gossip yet she was the main one doing it.
Company finally fired her last year (she'd been there over 10 years).

Gossiping at my job usually involves people I'm cool with but not too friendly so I just listen since people gravitate to me even though I'm quiet.
A coworker vented to me yesterday about these foreign ladies in our department that called HR on her and another over some petty shyt. One of the ladies is someone I'm actually friends with so I gotta remain neutral since there's two sides to a story and I don't really care about their shyt anyway.

 

[Smokin Rider]

I'm just tryna work breh i'm not tryna know why Jenny has beef with Doug because of so-and-so


I just be nodding like "damn that's crazy" and go on my day, but that doesn't stop co-workers from unloading all their gossipy bullshyt on me every day


because I have to work with these people everyday, telling them to fukk off doesn't seem like a viable option

I have the same issue. People love to just come up and tell me why they don't fukk with so and so and I say the same thing "damn that's crazy" and "idk breh I'm just tryna stay out the way and get my paycheck".

 

[Givethanks]

I'm not cool enough to hear, or get involved in fukkery

 

[Gains]

sometimes its goof to socialize outside of work ,after a few drinks you see who the true chaty pattys are

 

[ThrobbingHood]

You can’t control what people say or do. The only thing you can control is how you react to them.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

If it’s a job I don’t give a shyt about, I soak up all information to make things worse.

 

[god shamgod]

I talk to the handful of people at my job I’m legit cool with the rest

Been learned a harsh lesson about “work friends” fukk them mutha fukkas ,they all talk too much and flaky af

 

[Po pimp]

Voice record on your phone when they come around babbling. Now you have all the leverage.

 

[Smokin Rider]

At the end of the shift everyone meets up in our department office for the last 30 minutes. I show up in the last 2 minutes to avoid the bullshyt. I been here 1 year and 2 of the older workers copied my lead now and said "I didn't know you could just show up in the last minute, I hate hearing all this gossip, im gonna do what you do". Now when we all show up separately I can see the passive aggressiveness when the gossipers see us and say "oh here comes the too cool crew, too cool to talk to us" and I just laugh and say i be working breh

 

[shopthatwrecks]

if the gossip ends up sexual ... eeoc ..time date and who was talkin... and cash out

yea yea yea .... job retaliates .. yeaa... look for osha violation...

cash out twice

 

[Killer Instinct]

Gossip is inevitable. Your participation in it is completely your choice.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

I'm just tryna work breh i'm not tryna know why Jenny has beef with Doug because of so-and-so


I just be nodding like "damn that's crazy" and go on my day, but that doesn't stop co-workers from unloading all their gossipy bullshyt on me every day


because I have to work with these people everyday, telling them to fukk off doesn't seem like a viable option

Yes. I try to cut down on it but people say all sorts of shyt.

One guy was going around telling everyone he wasn't getting promoted because he was short (yes he really said that).



He was trying to stir up trouble because he had applied for a new job. He didn't get the other job so he tried to come back and got fired for talking all that shyt.

 

[maxamusa]

Ya'll fukking up with that lowkey shyt....you supposed to have studied the art of war

 

[Kasgoinjail]

That's why I always politely declined after work hour drink ups

Nah it will end in mockery

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I've noticed...the quieter you are, the more information comes your way. I work in an office setting and I am somewhat quiet (not standoffish though). I'll engage in small talk when the setting calls for it.

With that being said, since I don't talk about people, I do notice people come to me to speak about others. I just listen.

This is true. I think it’s because they think you won’t rat them out lol. I stay getting info that I don’t ask for.