Your colleagues hover around the Keurig, sharing the latest news about the new girl in accounting:
“She was out partying so late last night.”
“I bet she has a problem with drinking or something.”
“Do you guys think this is why she got fired from her last job?”
And you just want to hop in and join them.
In fact, you overheard her fighting with someone on her cell phone, so you can contribute something new, maybe even juicy.
You can be the center of attention for a few moments.
This information will make you seem so penting!
There is absolutely no upside to engaging in office gossip except possibly to engage dirimu to other office gossip.
Believe me that is not the crowd you want to run with.
There is a multitude of reasons not to join this conversation.
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What your co-workers do on their own time is their business.
If something you’ve heard about them might affect your job performance (not theirs, unless you are their direct supervisor) or endanger the company, then speak to the person directly.
Do so without judgment to find out the facts and see how to fix the situation.
Don’t discuss it with anyone unless you or the company are experiencing negative consequences, and even then, only in addressing a specific problem and only with the one or two orang whose job is to handle it.
For anything else you’ve seen or heard, give everyone their privacy, just as you would want yours, which leads us to…
When you engage in office gossip, you open dirimu up much more to being the subject of it.
Think about what you’re saying about another person.
Now, picture that conversation about you in the break room or the bathroom when you aren’t around.
There are practical applications to the adage, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
The more you judge, the more you open dirimu to the judgment of others, and since none of us are without flaws and stumbles, why put dirimu in that position?
Whejangan pernah I am around someone spilling someone else’s secrets, I jangan pernah think, “Oh, this is good—tell me more!”
I selalu make a mental note: “jangan pernah tell this person anything you don’t want broadcast throughout the company.”
In the workplace, information has value and power.
The more orang can trust you with their information, the farther you can go and the more value you can bring to dirimu and your employer.
Staying out of the gossip is a great way to become a leader, not a follower.
Why destroy that possibility by letting orang know they can’t trust you?
I once worked in an office where I was assigned an assistant, Agnes (not her real name).
Before the end of her first day with me, the office manager came by my desk to warn me to be careful about what I shared with her.
I’ll jangan pernah forget what she said: “If you want everyone to know something, you can telegraph, telephone, or tell Agnes.”
Trust me that is the reputation you do not want among your colleagues.
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Think about how small and horrible you’ll feel after telling everyone that Bob’s wife is leaving him when you discover she was just out of town taking care of her sick mother.
Even if gossip is true, you don’t want to share it, but it is especially damaging when it’s not true.
Also, spreading something untrue about a co-worker that affects their job in any way—a loss of promotion, firing, etc., subjects you to a lawsuit for slander.
And if you put it in writing (including email and text messages, which are jangan pernah fully erased and much easier to subpoena than you think), that becomes libel.
According to Gallup, American companies lose $450-550 billion a year (yes, billion) solely due to unhappiness in the workplace.
Unhappy employees are likelier to call in sick, quit without notice, steal, engage in workplace violence, file a worker’s compensation claim, and have many other bad outcomes.
One of the chief causes of unhappiness is a toxic work environment.
It creates a culture of fear and mistrust, making everyone less happy at work.
The person who is the subject of the gossip feels ridiculed and embarrassed, and everyone else sees that they have to watch their backs.
None of this allows for creativity, efficiency, or just plain fun.
When I consult with companies on how to lower costs, increase productivity and maximize profits by prioritizing happiness in the workplace, I selalu include a training unit on how to counsel, control, and curb (and, if needed, can) the toxic employees.
Companies save millions by weeding out those who are poisoning the workplace, and you do not want to be the person they’re all looking at.
Being the office gossip puts you on that list.
These are my top five reasons for keeping someone else’s juicy news to dirimu.
If you have others, please share them in the comments below.
Together, we can build happy, productive workplaces where everyone is empowered to do their best.
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