You and your work friends spend time complaining about the boss or gossiping about coworkers.
Gossiping in the car, they absently drove past the entrance and turned in the next driveway.
Nowadays they are upstairs on the laptop, PS3 or mobile, gossiping and playing and flirting.
But clearly that would distance me from the people about whom I was gossiping.
They also said that the main motive for gossiping was to protect their group.
What is the best way to cope with feeling overwhelmed while also managing the complaining, gossiping, snarky colleague?
Gossiping about their neighbours is out, because they may no longer know them.
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No matter what, avoid gossiping with your co-workers or with your manager, particularly when it comes to your predecessor.
Gossiping and bad-mouthing him brings back negative thoughts and doesn't serve your reputation in the long run, says Mackay.
Avoid gossiping about them with co-workers as they will find out that they got to you via the office grapevine.
Some were coding, others keeping tabs on the election, or just geek-gossiping.
Brazilians are the most annoyed of any national group by excessive gossiping.
Foot traffic funnels east past a popular friend chicken joint, a bustling beauty shop and neighborhood teens flirting and gossiping outside a bodega.
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Jasmine and asparagus grew in some of the yards, while in others there were weeds under the tall palms, gossiping in the wind.
Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends.
If you care so much about Marissa Mayer that you question her choices, then stop gossiping and mobilize to change things for all women.
Discourage even the smallest transgressions, cheating, gossiping, lying, teasing and bullying.
In a third study, the researchers asked 123 students to imagine either a fellow student or an old friend gossiping about them with someone else.
According to a 2011 Monster.com survey, respondents reported that among their co-workers' impolite behaviors, gossiping "ticked them off, " along with texting during meetings, being too loud and leaving a mess.
For one thing, it makes the world think that we women are all alike, that we all like pink, like flowers, chocolate, that we all like shopping, gabbing, gossiping.
His silence is fueling endless speculation and further gossiping.
"You can't understand the impact of Twitter in Venezuela until you understand that the national sport is gossiping, " said Antonio Cova, a sociology professor at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas.
In the summer there is no end to a farmer's work, but winter is the time for visiting friends, joking, gossiping and listening to Karli as he plays us a polka on his zither.
Industry sources say the online search and advertising specialist could publicly detail its long-rumored mobile-phone project as early as next week--with tech-gadget bloggers gossiping about every aspect of the look and feel of the latest tech toy.
You will not find much in the way of services but as you wander through the very narrow, cobbled alleyways you will happen upon women baking bread in outdoor, communal ovens, men whittling on doorsteps and neighbours gossiping in their distinctive dialect.
These same junior Goldman bankers who pulled all-nighters doing the grunt work on the Archipelago-NYSE deal were also maneuvering the firm for a boost in the rankings of deal advisers related to the transaction, and gossiping over possible conflicts in advising both buyer and seller.
In the months before the model was killed, Ms Steenkamp lived with the Myers family, sleeping in a small upstairs bedroom, cooking pasta for Mr Myers, surprising her hosts with gifts of chocolate, and gossiping late into the night with Mr Myers' daughters - and Reeva's close friends - Gina and Kim.
The moral issues uncovered in every scene range from the central one how should the privileged treat the poor to the acceptability or otherwise of gossiping about friends, building an extension that blocks the neighbours' view, overreacting when someone takes your parking space, or stealing an employer's expensive face-cream (perfectly permissible if you use it on your feet).
As for the stories, which are told in straight chronological order, they're amusing when taken one by one, but they don't come remotely near adding up to a plot, nor do they make you care about Ms. Mengers, who comes across as a thoroughly nasty piece of goods, the kind of "friend" who starts gossiping about you as soon as you leave the room.
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