gossiping

If you don't like gossiping, there is surely some outlet you have that increases happiness and is nonproductive.

The only purpose in gossiping about people who disclose information which nobody seriously disputes is to confuse the simple-minded.

As long as you don't make the person who is gossiping feel attacked or belittled, this could effectively discourage the behavior.

There may be a strong norm against sharing data or gossiping or spying or publishing.

That, and the fact that I pointedly ignored him when he started gossiping, seems to have worked.

If someone can't keep themselves from maliciously gossiping a week ago, then I might be reluctant to work with them.

If possible, I'd like to request at least gossiping with servers in the SKS pool.

Do you plan on gossiping with or mirroring the SKS pools?

I would go nuts if people were gossiping and being as chaotic as a daycare...

Hearsay, rumours, implication, this is professional gossiping.

With all due respect, the open office educational analogy is the cafeteria study hall, with everyone walking around and gossiping and goofing off and basically getting nothing productive done other than putting on a show.

I hope we are too busy finding good things to build, good ways to build them, and good people to build them with (and for!) to sit around gossiping about who's over the hill and who sucks.

Without gossiping too much about him, some stories I've heard definitely characterize his behavior as "bordering on the insane".

Something along the lines of "kids in the neighborhood used to all play outside together and now they're inside gossiping on social media".

> however, gossiping and drama over facebook is even worse, because it can haunt you forever Yes, and the people who do that gossiping and dramas tend to be the same that tell you to "get a life".

Also, I agree that dramas and gossip are not an interesting or worthy part of "real life" - however, gossiping and drama over facebook is even worse, because it can haunt you forever.