Gossip Queen, and the winner is!...... Joe Trucker? What the?

Girls have been known to be catty, backstabby, gossipy and bitchy.... While maybe not being as catty, backstabbish or bitchy, wanna know who takes the worst aspect of GOSSIP to the next level? You got it, men. More specifically truckers that I've seen.

I work in a mail room. There's me, my supervisor, who happens to be a male, and the production person, also a male. In the month I've been here (August 4th start date), I've walked down the hall towards the office and have been able to hear them talking, not what about but could tell they were talking. As soon as I got into the office - dead silence mid sentence with a couple second pause, then start up with a line of "like I was saying yesterday" and the subject would be changed. I'm not paranoid by any means. I don't think every one's life revolves around me and therefore, always gossiping about me. When it happens at least once a week, it makes a girl suspicious.... Am I going to get fired???? Do I do something consistently wrong making you believe I'm dumb? Or is there just something going on in your life you don't want the FNG (F#$*ing new girl) to know about?

This isn't a new theory for me though. I spent three and a half, almost four years at a freight/trucking company and have worked in a few similar geared places since.... I tell you what, I never found so much interesting stuff about my self out before! These places are rumour mills! I could seriously walk in the office, say my favourite colour is green and by the end of the day it'll come back as me being pregnant with some green eyed one night stand that moved back to his green house in Greenland. How the hell......? Majority of the time though, I didn't have to start the drama rumours, they were started before I even got to work that day. Oh, she was talking to Freddy. Freddy's married with three kids! OMG, don't tell his wife, he can't afford alimony and child support because he was cheating! What? I had a conversation with the guy about the freight he's delivering, I won't be seeing him for a week after this, and now I'm sleeping with him? What? Fill me in on how you came to that conclusion!

Yeah, women can be vicious, but guys, you're not as innocent as you'd have me believe when it comes to this argument.

Even though I'm "one of the boys", it ain't always about me! =0)