Biting Your Tongue - On Banning Gossip

In the wake of my recent post on the office gossip and in light of a recent surge in internet bases for sharing potentially harmful and hurtful information about others (which I thought were already in abundance... thank goodness juicecampus.com wasn't around when I was in undergrad!), I thought I'd share a sort of funny article that someone mentioned to me this weekend. Apparently, the CEO at this small Chicago-based business firm got so sick of the office gossip where he works that he hired a consulting firm to come up with the solution: ban it all together. That's right, "ZERO tolerance for tatting." Punishments and all for those that are caught. Nice.

It's really too bad my Japanese isn't good enough to translate this one for my office, but let's hope it doesn't get to this point!