2006-08-07 00:33:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Local Businesses ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
Coming from my own experience, I would just tell the people that are slagging off the other people that it bothers you and ask them to please refrain from talking badly about others in front of you. If they know about how you feel, then hopefully they'll stop. Also mention to them that it's disruptive and does nothing for company morale. Good luck. :)
2006-08-07 05:11:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dim the lights in the office........then do a Blair Witch project on them and stand there facing the corner.
When they run to the corner for a gossip start muttering to yourself and rocking back and forth....
That'll get em!
2006-08-07 07:39:30 · answer #2 · answered by politicalghettogirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Wafflebox's answer - I'd ask all the non-gossipers to stop working and listen in to the gossipers (they'd go into the toilets then) - or like some of the others say, I'd get a small recording device and record what they say - meet at lunch with a non-gossiper and have a laugh!
2006-08-14 09:57:05 · answer #3 · answered by sheila 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter whether they're talking about you or someting that's got nothing to do with you - whispering is plain rude. If you have it in you, tell them to stop or save it for a more private situation. If not, tell your boss that it's creating a bad atmosphere and you want it to end. There are two grown women in my office who do it and I think it's immature and totally unacceptable. Don't stand for it.
2006-08-07 11:19:13 · answer #4 · answered by Hotpink555 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put filing cabinets in all the corners. The whisperers will avoid them like the plague!
2006-08-07 07:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by Away With The Fairies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Build a round office.
2006-08-07 07:38:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put some highly sensitive microphones in the corner and plug them into a 400 watt amplifier. That'll stop 'em.
2006-08-07 07:38:10 · answer #7 · answered by JeffE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happens in my office. So rude.
One of my colleagues had a go at the people doing it, but that didn't work.
I go really quiet and stop typing so there's no other noise in the office and try and hear what they're saying. I actually couldn't care less what they are saying, but they obviously don't want me to hear, because that makes them stop.
2006-08-07 07:42:29 · answer #8 · answered by Wafflebox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move to a round office.
2006-08-07 07:37:20 · answer #9 · answered by Frankie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let them whisper, I wouldn't give them the pleasure of reacting to it just as I wouldn't to 7 year olds doing it in the playground.
2006-08-09 09:16:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋