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Tue 28 Mar, 2006 08:10 am
A supervisor continually talks bad about co-workers to me. I want to handle the situation wisely without causing a problem for me with the supervisor. Any suggestions on what I can say to make the situation go away without repercusions?
Go to their boss and tell them what a great supervisor you have. With any luck your supervisor will get promoted and out of your hair.
that's stupid, cjhsa, but right in character for you.
Have you thought you may be able to shame the person into not doing it around you by simply saying "I feel uncomfortable participating in gossip"?
Or participate avidly in the conversations, adding more fuel to the flames. Maybe you can get your coworkers fired and take over their positions!
snood wrote:that's stupid, cjhsa, but right in character for you.
Have you thought you may be able to shame the person into not doing it around you by simply saying "I feel uncomfortable participating in gossip"?
Your response shows how little you know about how business works. That doesn't surprise me, however, since I doubt you have ever held a job.
Is this the kind of conversation you're talking about, skipper1?
hey skipper.....boss bad mouths others to you....you're worried about someone using the copier without permission......
you need to get a life.
where do you work, Backstabbers R Us?
Sounds like he works in my office....
he better not come around here, we'd take turns bitch slapping him.
Around here, he'd get promoted.
Skipper, are you up to asking him what he/she says about you, when you're not around? The obvious hazard is that you might get an answer.
This is called management by gossip, by the way. I haven't had to put up with it since I left the motel business.
This person is a supervisor for a reason. Do you know what that reason is? Are they particularly knowledgeable in their area of the department? Maybe he or she has an advanced degree?
I'm quite serious - you can try the PC approach and say "Please don't do that", but if it continues, your best bet it to get the person promoted or transferred.
cjhsa wrote:This person is a supervisor for a reason. Do you know what that reason is? Are they particularly knowledgeable in their area of the department? Maybe he or she has an advanced degree?
I'm quite serious - you can try the PC approach and say "Please don't do that", but if it continues, your best bet it to get the person promoted or transferred.
Hey everybody - cjhsa is "quite serious". Notify the press.
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