Comments on: What Can HR Do About Workplace Gossip?

By: Office person

Office person — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:15:15 +0000

When a person is engaged in gossip, they are not performing their job duties and they are also keeping the person or persons they are gossiping with from working as well. Gossip is unkind and costly and does not belong in the workplace. Sure, we have freedom of speech, but when we work for someone we are obligated to do our jobs.

By: Avetha

Avetha — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:26:58 +0000

As unfortunate as office gossip is, we do have freedom of speech in this country. I think Lestina handled it correctly. She didn’t like what was happening at her workplace so she complained to her supervisor. Getting no satifaction, she left the company.
Unfortunately it is not governments responsibility to limit what can and cannot be said. But by acting the way she did, maybe the company will do something about it.

By: Lestina

Lestina — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:45:24 +0000

We so need laws to help stop the ugly gossip and harasment in our work place.

By: Lestina

Lestina — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:43:48 +0000

I quite my job after a year for none stop gossip and harassment against me. I would put it in writing and also give verbal complaints to my Administrator. She did nothing. I also had the HR of the company step in and also this ended with a blind eye or should I say with eyes only for the ones causing the gossip. You see I was a newcomer to the group and I was pray to them because I did not conform to their destructive group. This left me backed against the wall and sever stress within my work place. Sad that it is the state of Maine does not enforce any type of recall in the manor the law states it is supposed to do and this leaves a person like myself helpless. I also was turned down by unemployment while looking for a new position. They stated in my denial letter I had no good reason why I left my job. This is a shame that we as victims of hateful, hurtful and downright harassing gossip that we have to fall victim to the unemployment power as well. I have only received unemployment once in my life in the early eighties and I feel that no matter what goes on in a work place you have no voice as the victim. This law has got to be sternly enforced so us dedicated hard working employees keep their jobs and have a safe place of employment and those doing the gossip and harassment no matter what position they hold looses their job if they continue to act in that kind of manor. I would like to know who is going to step up to the plate and get the game going??? I sure would like to be on your team. God Bless and help all of you in my position. May the Lord grant us victory over this large and inflated problem we so do not deserve to have been victim to.