Workplace Gossip
Translated with the help of AI.
We have a very bad habit… talking shop at every hour of the day.
In the office, in the canteen, over dinner with a whole group of us. And when we talk, we get completely absorbed, painting the whole vivid picture. I wonder whether the other diners lose their appetite… That we haven’t yet been thrown out by the waiters counts as luck.
When we talk shop, we inevitably talk about people too: other teams, other colleagues. Where people work together there will always be differences of opinion and of viewpoint. We gossip about others: that one is the most annoying, that one calls you about every little thing… They, in turn, like to say which of us always has a “black face”, which of us is careless…
That is understandable. A little gossip can be a way of letting off steam, as long as it doesn’t turn into personal attacks, as long as right and wrong aren’t blurred…
As Christians, we have a responsibility to be light and to be salt… to put an end to gossip and to spread the news of peace. Better to gossip as little as possible.