Folk wisdom says that the victim of gossip are always three people: one who tells it, the one who listens and the one about whom it says. Your task is maximum - to survive in this battle and do not become a victim of this in any capacity. Distribute, Hear and try not to give rise to gossip.
Accept the fact that only those who remain at work a lot of free time, there is the fact that gossip. For many gossip become an occasion to establish closer relations of trust with colleagues. These people misunderstand the word "trust" and use it wrong. Sometimes gossip about someone becomes a good excuse to divert attention from their own collective problems and errors at work.
There are people who through gossip trying to raise their own importance, an introduction to the one they know the secrets of the whole team. If you refuse to participate in such fun, you can inevitably become a victim and another object of gossip.
If this happens, do not all and sundry to explain how it was in fact or in gossip about you there is no truth. But turn a blind eye to what is happening is not necessary. If you feel like whispering behind your back, check with that of colleagues who did not take part in the persecution of those who spread rumors about you and their contents. It is important to understand the source to prevent the spread of gossip gossiper and make it clear that down to him you will not.
Ask witnesses where this man such information about you that you do not really know. Try to speak calmly and ironically, to make it look at least, stupid. Harsh humor here is could not be more helpful. Consider pre-phrase that will sound very correctly and at the same time very sad, to which it will be difficult to find fault. In an extreme case - Express sympathy for the apparent absence in gossip personal life, which is evidenced by a genuine interest to someone else.