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Gossip Folks

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:45 PM

So let me tell you about what happened at work yesterday. No, it wasn't bad per se... but after telling DH about it, I can't help but feel a little worried/uncomfortable.

OK so here's the scoop... i was up at the reception desk getting some supplies from the closet. chatting with the receptionist, and she goes, ok you didn't hear it from me, but B quit today. i go, what! no way... she didn't have any details for me, so i was like, who told you. she was like, i can't say. from process of elimination and knowing who she is friends with, i know who told her.

so i go to my desk and call my co-worker (ok i am really his boss, but we more so work together then have that boss/employee relationship). i told him the "gossip" because it was something that we've been talking about recently, job security -- or lack thereof and the numbers of layoffs and downsizing that's been going on here.

10 minutes later, he comes into my office and goes, uh-oh, i think i may have messed up. APPARENTLY he told another co-worker (i'll call him D) who went ahead and called the PRESIDENT of the company to ask if this was true! the president stormed down to his office to ask D how he found out that B quit. supposedly D didn't reveal his source. but D came back and told us that the president was on a mission to find out who let this slip in the first place... UGH...

sooooo... now i know that this isn't REALLY my fault. i passed on the info instead of keeping my mouth shut, but i thought i could trust MY coworker to keep his mouth shut. then again, the receptionist thought she could trust me to keep MY mouth shut... and so on and so on...

i guess the reason i'm getting all bejiggity about this is because DH says that he thinks D revealed his source or would be worried that he mentioned who he heard the rumor from if he thought his job might be in jeopardy. which then, i am involved, maybe not directly as D's source but i was part of the chain! so maybe i wouldn't lose my job over it, but i guess i just don't want to be involved on any level... i need this job, i like this job, i have enough to worry about without worrying about my job...

am i being crazy? should i be worried or should i just let it go?