Every office has that one coworker who thrives on gossip, but what if that coworker has an even more worrisome ulterior motive? It's one thing to form a friendship with your other coworker and to engage in mild and meaningless gossip about office dynamics. After all, when you're spending eight hours a day and five days a week working with the same people, it's inevitable that cliques will form, tensions will occasionally arise, and rumors will spread. Even if you have no desire to engage in that kind of talk, it's kind of inevitable, isn't it?
Still, you have to be careful and ensure that the coworkers who become your trusted friends in and out of the office are exactly who they say they are. The people who smile and encourage you to talk smack about others may not be doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. In fact, they may wind up using that information against you down the road. So be careful, folks!
That being said, some people are a bit too cautious and many folks in the comments section of this Reddit thread seem to think that OP is overreacting and making mountains out of molehills. What do you all think? For more stories like this, here is one about a guy who got some petty revenge on an entitled lady at a networking event.
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