Rumors at work (long rambling vent and a crazy idea?)

(deleted, too much rambling and craziness)... I don't think you can delete a post yourself...

 

nope ya can't....

I don't understand why people at work resort to gossiping and spreading rumors... it's so juvenile, to say the least.

 

I totally agree with you, it's pretty bad when 30-40 somethings in higher positions in the company take part in it... I would repost what I said before but I was really mad when I posted it and some of it had lots of profanity, even for me

I basically was asking if it's a good idea to start bullshit rumors about myself to make the manure spreaders (ie gossip people) look like total idiots and be discredited by others, as well as making other people ignore future rumors from them... add a lot more irritation and profanity and that's what I edited out before

If anyone else had similar problems with work rumors etc do you have any good ways to stop it or retaliate (without getting fired of course)?

 

hehe.... Did you guys know the mad doser is planning on dosing the water supply of all who are in the rainbow guide?? GO RUMORS!!!

 

I'm sorry Mr. Two, petty people suck unholy dog excrement, usually are the misbegotten issue of feckless fornication, and ought to be given over to great apes for sex toys. (there, feel better?)

Now then crazy idea or not "bullshit rumours", are one of the techniques within a known class of techniques, used in espionage, propaganda, and all forms of politics, that particular class is called disinformation. Disinformation although an insideous, vile, wicked, and morally debased practice, is unfortunately all to often effective.

So then the first question I'd advise you ask of yourself is, "Do I want to resort to tactics that compromise my ability to function as an authentic human being?"

This is a serious, and vital question my young friend, and your answer to it will determine much of who you become; for it is one of those questions that immediately rises above the particulars to address the defining of your character.
I have been given reason to doubt that this particular "tool" of development has been passed on to your generation, particularly as I notice the distinct lack of having asked it, evident in many of my own generations' behavior. Further evidence to the lack of this skill being passed on came about as a result of a post of mine, "Who am I?" In that post I attempted to convey that although that question has been long considered the "first question of identity" that this assumption was erroneous. What few responses I got tended to be glib, snyde, or outright sarcastic. I had thought that by half a centuries sojourn upon this spaceship Earth, I had rid my self of the possibility of disllusionment, I was wrong.

I find it difficult to continue with what I know about this issue as I am to a small degree uncertain of the wisdom of what I would by the nature of my own character advise you to do. You see my absolute unwillingness to compromise my ethic, has cost me very much in life, and although integity, honesty, and honor are values I am convinced are the correct ones to hold, do I dare hold this forth to one setting out on the same journey through which adhearance to them cost me so much. I will consider this.

sine cera

 

^^^^^^whoa :stunned: ^^^^^^^

 

Disinformation is exactly what I meant, but I couldn't remember the word

Working at that job for 6 years has already compromised my ability to function as an authentic human being. Dealing with the general public and ripping them off (aka retail) there is so much crap around there already that people seem to believe anything, or pretend to for entertainment, and very few people are actually what they seem...

I doubt there is even one person there that really knows me, and probably no one that I really know, it's all bullshit and mind games, role playing of sorts... I've even taken on an alter ego at work, a few people I've hung out with after work seemed very shocked to see how different I really am from what they thought...

Given that most people there are gullible sheep I could probably tell them I'm fucking Adolf Hitler's corpse and they would believe it... Mind games are kind of evil I know but it's like a war zone, kill or be killed. And people wonder why I hate my job so much...

 

Hello again Mr. Two,
Retail... my condolances, for something I never intended nor desired to be involved in, I've spent a total of over 12 years in various retail positions, and none of them were without a particularly vicious strain of "office politics". Small, petty plastic people, playing at self importance are generally the Mada Hari's of the company cabals. The size of the company, the type of retail outlet, and to some degree the location, all contribute to the symptoms of this pathology of social behavior, one of the crucial determiners of how to best respond is what system of employee evaluation is used. If your inidvidual sales performance is tracked, and you are in the upper 25% of sales for your department, then your best strategy is to ignore the nonsense, get away from the company for lunch, don't hang out in the break room or cafeteria, be polite to everyone, or at least do not bad rap anyone in the company, and when confronted with the issue of these B.R.s in your most politically correct posture and tone say, Why Mada Hari don't you know that rumours are devastating to employee moral, and that employee moral is the key to a successful sales force. arry:You wouln't want to undermine the companies success, would you?

Okay so I know, probably makes you want to launch the contents of your upper digestive tract back out of the input oriface, and it is really a blind stab in the dark without further info, and it of course takes your desire to not be terminated into consideration. It is the safest of all responses though, and does not invole you in the petty ways of bullshit people.

BTW why are you working in retail? Chocie or necessity? Thinking about doing anything else? If you can tell me more about your particular situation I'll try to think of something better than the above, but know this, retail tends to be a soul eater, there are some good companies though, see if you can find one to apply to if you intend staying in that field of work.
good luck
sine cera

 

If you work in a competitive office environment in which upward mobility is sometimes the difference between security and the unemployment line, than it's do unto others, before they get the jump on you.



Hotwater

 

it's necessity right now, until I'm done school enough and can get a relevant job... I started with a different career path in school and changed my mind so it set me back a few years, I would have been done by now otherwise

I am looking for other work though, I'll keep this job for the money (greedy yes, but very good for a student job) but I'm looking for a 2nd job that would be fun but probably minimum wage like at a go kart track near here or a toy store etc (less greedy small independent type places) something fun to distract me from the stress and bs at the retail place... as much as I want to quit I can't afford to for at least another year or so until I have enough to pay off all my tuition.