Unfortunately, there was a gossip about me. It is so annoying if you find out your co-workers have been spreading gossips about you. And the gossip was about I got pregnant so I disappeared from the office for 3 months or it is like I took 3 months pregnancy leave. (It is so funny anyway, because in my opinion, I will still working on my pregnancy and I am still single, so there is no reason to disappear from the office if I got pregnant, I believe some of my best friend at work have said that I took 3 months holiday because my resignation letter was refused by my boss). I guess the root cause of gossip is jealousy. The more successful you are, the more attractive, the more kind, the more self-assured, the more people will gossip. They do it to try and bring you down. They do it to try and build themselves up. My family knew about that gossip and asked me to make a declaration letter stated that I was not pregnant and reported to Human Resources Dept., but i didn’t do it because I thought it was excessive although the gossip was very disturbing to me.

From my point of view, gossip is useless and only harmful to others, especially to people who do not care about other’s business and what you can get from gossip then? As office workers should be talking about ideas, not about people and if you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all. And there are some quotes that will make you re-think gossip: 

 “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people” –Eleanor Roosevelt-.

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas” –Marie Curie-.

If you think the gossip is seriously affecting your reputation, or your ability to work properly, I suggest you to report to Human Resources, I am quite sure that they will give the gossipers a warning or maybe punishment.

If you have faith your company will deal with the complaint professionally, it is likely they will be able to move the teams around so you won’t have to deal with the same colleagues again. 

And the most important is: if they are brave enough to talk behind my back, then have the courage to say it to my face, talk to me, not about me, that is all I ask.

Finally, that is my thoughts about Gossip at Work. Please stop spreading gossip at work, let’s start to discuss your great idea than gossiping people!  Wouldn’t you say so?

Thank you for reading and please feel free to share your thought with me about this topic.

Have a nice day !