Don’t involve yourself in it. It’s a slippery slope. You’ll become negative and cynical. You’ll begin to resent the company. You’ll more openly complain to others. You’ll critics management for the way hey do things. Your now the gossiper. 

Just avoid it. When someone try’s to talk about something negative or complain to you, walk away from the situation or say something positive about their negative. Help dissolve the situation. If you prevent the gossiper from spreading gossip, they don’t get the satisfaction of gossiping. They stop going to you to gossip about dumb shit. Disassociate yourself from the negative people.

Stay away from these types of people as much as possible. Avoid them like the plague. They’re like a sickness. You will become infected and beginning spreading negativity throughout your team. Once the teams turned it’s hard to come back without starting over. Without firing the staff or management. 

Flip the script. Become overly optimistic. Become the person that sees positivity in every situation. You only spread positive “gossip”. Make your presence known. Announce to everyone you will not partake in gossip. 

Spread positivity throughout your team. Things can always be much worse. You’re job is much better than you think. You’re situation is better than you think. Be proud of what you do. Be confident in what you do. 

Nothing beneficial comes from complaining about a situation and not doing anything about it. If you’re unhappy with something, do something about it. Remain positive and optimistic. 

You also have to tie in action and a plan to change the situation if it truly is not working. Positivity is crucially important but take action if you need to change he situation. 

Being overly optimistic and positive is never a bad thing. Be aware when you’re leaning towards negativity. Change it once you feel yourself becoming negative. 

Negativity can quickly spread through a team but so can positivity. Stay positive and optimistic. Don’t gossip.