The BN Village - View Single Post - Ever had rumours spread about you in the workplace??

Madam Butterfly · (#2 (**permalink**))

kinda stating the obvious here, but malicious rumours are usually the result of jealousy, whether they envy what you have, how good you are at your job, how popular you are etc and want to damage your image/reputation.

Confrontation is risky unles you know for sure who originated the rumour. If you do know and you know for a full fact the rumours are baseless then by all means confront the person. It is your right to defend yourself. But rumours are usually circular (hence why they are said to "go round"!) which means whoever you confront will always say they heard it from so and so and didn;t start it (though doesn;t excuse them spreading it).. In the end you may just end up confronting and pissing off a whole bunch of people. thereby giving them cause to believe any future negative rumours about you.