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PDM420 t1_j9ctexi wrote

I have a really hard time comprehending how people can spend so much time and energy socializing with co-workers they secretly despise, while acting super friendly towards one another, and then bitching about said co-workers around their back the first chance they get.

I have co-workers who literally the only thing they do all day is complain. The place of works sucks, the boss it terrible, all the co-workers except us here in this room are bums, etc.

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BodomDeth t1_j9drcvf wrote

They’re creating their own reality show because they’re bored and their lives suck. Not everywhere is like this

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Zen_Coyote t1_j9dtums wrote

I was the only male in an all-female department. The amount of whispering going on all day long sounded like steam escaping.

And, yes, they were all a bunch of backstabbing phoneys.

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brokeneyes_ t1_j9ga2pt wrote

I (male) work in a department that is predominantly female (less so now than it was when I was first hired). When I first started, one of the women there told me they were so glad that the manager was hiring more men, because most men don’t participate in the drama the way many women do, and it tones the whole thing down to make it less of a problem.

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obsidiankaleidoscope t1_j9gdodz wrote

I just left a factory job, because my coworkers were too gossipy and backstabbing. I was the only female in my department. I often got blamed for “ratting” on my coworkers, even though I never complained about a single thing. One guy made up lies about me and triangulated a few of my other coworkers against me simply just because i wouldn’t flirt with him (he’s married and i wasn’t attracted to him). It’s definitely not just a female thing.

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goghfigure t1_j9eb0do wrote

Mostly it’s when people I already don’t like come up to me and I don’t want to get written up for being rude and “creating a hostile work environment” for ignoring them.

So I’m SOL when it comes to who I socialize with

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