How Gossip Killed the Admin Career?

Answer 1

A lot of being a good administrative assistant is about team work. You work together with your boss in a job that requires a great deal of trust. You work with the other administrative assistants, backing each other up when things are hectic and helping each other with projects. Trust is important for any administrative assistant. If you lose the trust of those you work for and with, you won’t be effective at your job.

Gossip is one of the best ways to lose everyone’s trust. Everyone chats about personal things on the job. It’s one way that we bond with our coworkers. We share bits and pieces of our personal lives, our likes and dislikes, what we had for dinner last night and what new movies we want to see. These things aren’t gossip, and they aren’t likely to hurt your relationships at work.

Gossip is something else entirely. Gossip is mean and prurient. Gossip has behind it a secret, and sometimes not so secret, desire to hurt someone else, to make ourselves look better at the expense of another. When someone tells you something in confidence and you pass it on, that’s gossip. When you overhear the boss reprimanding another employee and you pass it on, that’s gossip, not to mention a serious breach of confidentiality.

Jewish wisdom holds that when you give in and spread gossip, you are hurting three people. You hurt the person you gossip about, you hurt the person you gossip to, and you hurt yourself. You are breaking a trust, even if the information you are passing on is true. If the person with whom the gossip is concerned doesn’t want that information shared, then you are hurting that person by passing it on. The person who hears the gossip is hurt by hearing something that shouldn’t be known, and you are hurt by the loss of trust of others when they know that you gossip.

Gossip can create rifts in the office environment, ultimately hurting everyone and the business. If you want to lose a perfectly good job that you like and enjoy, then indulge in gossip.