Comments on: Career Tip: Run From Gossip

By: sell textbooks online

sell textbooks online — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:40:48 +0000

This is important and can get you in trouble. I learned this lesson young while working at a restaurant. I was nice to everyone but if you just go to work and do your job and not worry about anybody but yourself you will do better than the average chatty Kathy.

By: used tires

used tires — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:04:59 +0000

You definitely want to stay away from rumors and gossip, I’ve learned that the hardway, from who I thought were “my friends” but at the end of it all when it really counted, I become the “bad guy” out if all. One thing I did learn from my experience, is that Politics and gossip is everywhere, even in sports, and just about anything you do in life.

Till then,

Jean

By: Mike King

Mike King — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:41:33 +0000

THanks Eduard and kate… Its a dangerous thing to participate in and even listen to as knowing the gossip is sometimes the trigger to ‘accidentally’ then blurting something out you ought not to. I had that same advice in the other article I had on gossip to not say anything you wouldn’t directly to them, it certainly puts an end to gossip about other people when this is put into practice.!

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:21:18 +0000

Office gossip is a big one! I remember an office where I worked years ago, it was just a hotbed of affairs, bitching, people being two faced…….I didn’t last long! It wasn’t always completely avoidable, so my policy was not to say anything about anyone I wouldn’t say directly to their face. Just about got me through!
Now if anything like that occurs,l I either stay right away or tell the person off!
Great post, thanks,
Kate.

By: Eduard @ People Skills Decoded

Eduard @ People Skills Decoded — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:41:56 +0000

Amen! Gossip is usually a sign of frustrations and unfairness which are swept under the rug instead of dealt with. This is why I avoid people who gossip like the plague.