I might have just learnt my bitter lesson of gossiping at work today. To be honest, I wouldn't call it gossiping, more like venting out feelings. Three of us were sitting together and talking about how one of our colleagues is very rude to us. At one point in the conversation, one of us (not me) made a racial comment and I said the others in the office are okay, only this person we have a problem with is a terrible two-faced person. When I was done, this person said we don't know what this older person (the one I referred to as nice) would have been like when she was younger.
Then I realized what the problem of gossiping is.
If you are not going to hate the same people together, you might just end up being hated by all!
Honestly, I only have a problem with one person. I even wanted to make a formal complain but I was stopped at the very last minute by a friend. I thought we would just be talking about this one person, but another person gets brought into the picture and I have a feeling that one of us doesn't like this nice older person and has influenced the decision of our new colleague who is being bullied by the mean colleague.
It's all complicated if I can't mention names. Gossiping is like networking. You build up on your army and support. However, I think I should stay away from this at work for now and just watch the drama when this new colleague sends in his resignation letter. When asked why, the cat will be out of the hat!
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