How do you handle it? become part of it? avoid becoming a party to anyone?
What is the best strategy?
Re: Dealing with office politics and gossip
Avoid and discourage it.
Dealing with office politics and gossip
You know best strategy is to put ur head down and if u talk, just discuss events, ideas, problems and solutions not the people
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Has not been an issue.
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Pick a side. Ignoring wouldnt help. You will end up being hated by everyone.
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exactly what Lafater said , ignoring may not help because then people kind of outcast you , but then again you dont want to become a part of this whole dirty business either .. that is where the confusion is
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Maybe I am being naive. There could be so many issues over which politics may be going on. The "sides" may be fluid. There could be more than 2 sides. Not sure wasting ones energy over such things is worth it.
Just doing the job the best one can probably is enough. Why bother with the dirt?
I don't think ignoring gossip leads to being hated by everyone. It probably increases ones credibility. Who needs more stress?
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It's wrong to say that one can become outcast if he/she does not take a side.
A non-controversial person is always valuable in such situation. I'd like to be that person!
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How do you handle it? become part of it? avoid becoming a party to anyone?
What is the best strategy?
Office politics cannot be avoided. No matter what anyone says, it always exists and everyone is a part of it one way or the other. If you are working independently and not in a team, only then there is a possibility of you not getting involved in any type of politics.
Re: Dealing with office politics and gossip
How do you handle it? become part of it? avoid becoming a party to anyone?
What is the best strategy?
The people within my company chat so much **** on a daily basis they should write their own official blog. It's mostly the women I work with, the amount of gossip they chat. WOW. The internal company phone never stops ringing "did you hear this, did you hear that, guess what I just found out". I mean seriously get a life.
Personally I go to work, do my thing and go home. Obviously these people can't help themselfs and start telling me gossip but I don't take part in the discussion. I keep my focus on my work and let them get whatever they need to off their chest, sometimes I even put my headphones on and listen to music just so they'll get the message.
Some of the girls have asked me that so and so girl has said that I don't talk to them and ignore them most the day. I wonder why I do that? Lols, get the message :)
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Pick a side. Ignoring wouldnt help. You will end up being hated by everyone.
I would never pick a side unless someone was being bullied and I would help the person being bullied.
Who cares if you're hated within a company? All you need to do is record them being nasty to you and that'll be the end of them.
Re: Dealing with office politics and gossip
exactly what Lafater said , ignoring may not help because then people kind of outcast you , but then again you dont want to become a part of this whole dirty business either .. that is where the confusion is
Work is work. Don't let people change your morals to fit in.