Questions tagged [gossip]
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My adult son embarrassed me in front of my coworkers - how to react to provocations?
I am located in the north of Germany. We had an event where the whole company got together, about 200 people. We had dinner, a live band, all in all it was a great evening. My small department (about ...
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How to respond to unprofessional gossip about colleague in the workplace?
Jane is one of my female colleagues. She doesn't get on well with a third colleague, Joe.
As he does every morning, Joe comes in to our office to say hello. Right after that, I receive an instant ...
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How to deal with office bickering as someone not directly affected? (But indirectly affected due to a negative office aura)
So there's two people, let's call them Fred and George, who are picking on one of our office mates - let's call him Ron.
To be fair, Ron does have some habits that are quite annoying for some people, ...
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Secret Santa - "rude gifts only"
In (just) our team at work it has been agreed to do a "Secret Santa" this Christmas. A stipulation is that it has to be a rude gift, a "Bad" secret santa if you will. Our manager is one of those ...
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How do I stop my habit of gossiping in my office negatively impacting my colleagues? [closed]
I have this bad habit of gossiping around everyone. Sometimes, it feels really embarrassing as I think that gossiping and backstabbing about my colleagues, I am not only cheating them but myself too. ...
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How to handle when you are the target of gossip? [closed]
One of my managers at my new job has been spreading gossip accusing me of misconduct against management at a previous job.
This is causing a lot of hostility and made my work environment very ...
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Woman in friend circle telling people I "should be fired"
Ex-friend is telling people I know that "I'm amazed she hasn't been fired yet" behind my back and I don't know what to do about it. She isn't known to cause drama or speak Ill of people so I'm pretty ...
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I'm resigning after only a few months due to issues with my supervisor. Other colleagues are questioning why. Should I tell them the truth? [closed]
As per the title, I had a really tough time working with my boss and have issues with them. Both personally and professionally. Thus, I have decided to resign after only working a few months here ...
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How to avoid negativity from colleagues without isolating yourself?
At work I have the opportunity of working more or less in isolation: my boss is hands-off and I mainly speak with stakeholders here and there.
I find this good for productivity and for meeting my ...
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Should I apologize for something after being fired? [closed]
I have been working for small company of 24 software developers + the two founder/owners. A lot of my co-workers have been with the company for 10+ years, but there are also some with less years and ...
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How can I politely ask a coworker to stop giving his unsolicited opinion and quit asking personal questions?
Let's call him Tim.
Ever since Tim got hired in our dev team we have had a good professional relationship. As time went by, I realized he was asking questions I didn't want to answer, for example: "...
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How to deal with disrespectful colleagues?
I'm a part of development team of 4. Our manager is a good manager in my opinion.
Our manager depends a lot on X, but she keeps bad mouthing him behind his back; she doesn't like his personality, his ...
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How do I stay out of malicious gossip when co-worker keeps trying to get me to agree with her? [duplicate]
Two co-workers of mine talk about a 3rd co-worker behind her back. They feel she gets away with things that other employees do not and management doesn't do anything about it. For example, her ...
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How to become more resilient to gossip about you in a corporate setting? [duplicate]
I've worked in different environments and industries at different ages and seems that whenever there is too much gossip going on in the office I want to quit ASAP.
I qualify this sort of environment ...
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How to face jealous and biased co-workers
The co-workers with me (we are a new department in a university and hence have only a few workers anyway) are kind of showing a jealousy attitude and trying to corner me. They even pass hints at me ...
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Coworker constantly sitting and spending time in HR / director office [closed]
I've had a coworker in the past who was constantly sitting with HR and with the director of the company (mind you this was a 100 people company so not very big), in their offices.
There was not much ...
