Are you nosy about your workmates?

Wanderer2010

Ok so we all spend a lot of time at work, some with people we like, others we hate, others we dont care either way. But are you nosy about people who dont exactly fit in or maybe are on the edges of the different groups in work? The outcasts? In my time working I have been shocked at how forward some people can be. For instance i overheard a couple of workmates (men not women!) openly gossip about whether the new guy was gay or not, and another time wondering if a workmate had a traveller background!

I may be a bit sheltered but is this the norm in workplaces?? Or maybe everywhere is the same but others just hide it better..

Buzz Killington the third

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Ok so we all spend a lot of time at work, some with people we like, others we hate, others we dont care either way. But are you nosy about people who dont exactly fit in or maybe are on the edges of the different groups in work? The outcasts? In my time working I have been shocked at how forward some people can be. For instance i overheard a couple of workmates (men not women!) openly gossip about whether the new guy was gay or not, and another time wondering if a workmate had a traveller background!

I may be a bit sheltered but is this the norm in workplaces?? Or maybe everywhere is the same but others just hide it better..

Sounds like the kind of post that a gay traveller would type...

Ruu

Gossips!

Warper

Try working in the public service, clique city

AdolfHipster

Nice try gay traveller!

curlzy

There's gossips in all walks of life. Myself, I really couldn't give a **** what my workmates do outside work.

WilyCoyote

I'm interested in anything out of the ordinary. I think most people would be.

_Redzer_

I'm generally unconcerned and uninterested in people's gossip and I generally won't nose about somebody, not because I'm just not nosey, I'm just too damn lazy to care.

UpCork

No. I'm not nosy. Although where I work at the minute there is a very small staff so perhaps I know a little more about them than I would if we were in a bigger organisation. Anything I do know is from what they have divulged not from me asking.

A few months ago a new girl started - her opening statement was 'I'm a very private person, I don't talk about myself or my family'. Cue an hour or more monologue on her life history followed by an interrogation that the FBI would be envious of on my private life.

Mr. CooL ICE

Nope, but there are quite a few who are constant gossipers. After sharing a table with them in the canteen, being a part of one of their conversations made me want to disassociate myself from them.

Son0vagun

Only concerned when she's out sunbathing

Sam Kade

I know a haulage company where the drivers kept log books in their trucks. This one nosey driver used to go around to all the trucks when they were back in the yard to have a gawk at other drivers log books. One of the drivers got fed up of this constant nosing around so one evening when he finished early he gathered all the rubbish in his truck and put it on a plastic bag. He gave the plastic bag to the woman in the office and told her to give the bag to said driver when he returned

Couldn't give a flying fcuk.

UpCork

What bugs me about one of my colleagues (the aforementioned one) is that she asks really obviously veiled questions. She'd get a lot more from me if she just bloody asked a questions without clouding it to make it look like she isn't be a nosy bugger

Yellowblackbird

Sam Kade wrote: »

I know a haulage company where the drivers kept log books in their trucks. This one nosey driver used to go around to all the trucks when they were back in the yard to have a gawk at other drivers log books. One of the drivers got fed up of this constant nosing around so one evening when he finished early he gathered all the rubbish in his truck and put it on a plastic bag. He gave the plastic bag to the woman in the office and told her to give the bag to said driver when he returned

Why did he do this ?

Arthur Beesley

Sam Kade wrote: »

I know a haulage company where the drivers kept log books in their trucks. This one nosey driver used to go around to all the trucks when they were back in the yard to have a gawk at other drivers log books. One of the drivers got fed up of this constant nosing around so one evening when he finished early he gathered all the rubbish in his truck and put it on a plastic bag. He gave the plastic bag to the woman in the office and told her to give the bag to said driver when he returned

I've been meaning to start keeping a log book. No entries for today as yet, though. One yesterday, late morning.

Sam Kade

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

Why did he do this ?

If you are asking about the nosy fella checking other drivers log books Your guess is as good as mine. I suppose he wanted to see where they went during the day or maybe he was licking the bosses arse running back with information if the drivers weren't where they were supposed to be.

There is never anything to interesting to talk about none of us are doing anything unusual, the height of the conversation would be about doing or seeing something unusual while you were on holidays or something.

jimgoose

We are Nerd. Gossip is irrelevant. People's private lives are of no consequence to us. In fact, "Private Lives" are futile. All will be assimilated.

kfallon

I couldn't give a gee about most of my workmates personal lives and God knows they talk about them a lot so I just try to ignore it.

Having said that there's about 6 or 7 people I work with that I consider genuine friends so if they wanted to talk about something to me I'd listen.

The rest can ask me bollix! Don't care about their kids, husband/wife, holidays, Friday nights etc

lisasimpson

have come across a few nosy people throughout my working life. really bugs me at times. if there was a work night out clashing with other plans I generally skip the work night. have gotten a fare bit of hassle over it at times but I don't live where I grew up so don't get to see my old friends that much. Coz I keep my work life and life outside of work very separate ive been told im up myself, latest is ive to put up with someone passing comments about how I never tell them anything. im sorry but no where in my contract does it state ive to make my business common knowledge

Birneybau

Sam Kade wrote: »

If you are asking about the nosy fella checking other drivers log books Your guess is as good as mine. I suppose he wanted to see where they went during the day or maybe he was licking the bosses arse running back with information if the drivers weren't where they were supposed to be.

No, we want to know about the bag of rubbish.

Tar.Aldarion

Small company where everybody likes each other really and majority have been here 10 years+, so not a lot of time for that kind of thing here. I chat and ask them things, that's about it. I know what they do outside work as it's a friendly atmosphere.

dundalkfc10

I only have conversations with people I like in work. Fellow employees who I dont know or dont like, why would I give a **** what they do?

Sam Kade

Birneybau wrote: »

No, we want to know about the bag of rubbish.

It was a reminder to the nosy man to stop poking around his truck and also I suppose he could have a rummage through the bag to see what the driver had to eat recently

Have ye any imagination you wouldn't need to be a detective to figure it out

danniemcq

I don't most of the people in my teams name, I get in in the morning put on headphones go for tea and lunch with mates and go home.

There is heaps of gossips and scandal in here (500-600 people work here i think these days) and the cliques and office groups and crap does my head in. everyone is out to backstab everyone else to get that pay raise or promotion

gramar

Sam Kade wrote: »

It was a reminder to the nosy man to stop poking around his truck and also I suppose he could have a rummage through the bag to see what the driver had to eat recently

Have ye any imagination you wouldn't need to be a detective to figure it out

I thought he was going to write something like '[name of nosey person] is a nosey prick' in the logbook so he would see it. Leaving him a bag of rubbish in the office doesn't quite have the same kick.

topper75

danniemcq wrote: »

everyone is out to backstab everyone else to get that pay raise or promotion

Is your Join Date 2005 or are you posting from 2005?

Tar.Aldarion

There is no such thing as promotions in my work, everybody is hired for their job, only drawback. At least there are those raises we hear about on da internet

Sam Kade

gramar wrote: »

I thought he was going to write something like '[name of nosey person] is a nosey prick' in the logbook so he would see it. Leaving him a bag of rubbish in the office doesn't quite have the same kick.

I am only relaying the story. Maybe he didn't want to be writing slander about his workmate where the boss could read it. The bag of rubbish had a more personal subtle effect letting him know what he thought of him without accusing him.