How to avoid from gossip that you don’t like?

I am kind of people don’t prefer office politic and gossips. But Office politic is a natural scene that you can see from every company. Staff A and Staff B taking lunch and at the same time taking their sweet time talking bad about their boss and colleagues and even worst criticized their boss when meet up.

Even worst a bounce of people meets up at café and discusses about bad and good about their company and even emotionally saying bad things about their bosses. What is can be happen? This is because we all are human and we all got habits. Sometimes I did it, but not my current colleagues of cause. But sometimes I really like to avoid this. Because I don’t like to get involve in the gossip gang. So, how I escape from this? I got my own style of handling it.

1. I only hang up with people who interests in others thing more than office’s matters like soccer. I like to join people who watch soccer during lunch and always discuss about what is happening in soccer. So, during lunch you got nothing to discuss related to office because you are keep yourself busy with soccer’s news.
2. I keep quite when they start to talk bad about bosses, no because I like my boss. It’s I prefer is keep these things out from your colleagues as they are part of the company and will spoiled their mode to work hard in this company and stay positive in their positions.
3. I will argue with some people who really playing bad office politic, just to avoid from sharing the same point of view with them as these people are good to avoid during lunch time.
4. Always have lunch with difference people as I don’t prefer grouping in office, this scene can be seen in any company, as people like to hang around with people that agree with their view. Soon or later they will become a group.
5. Lastly, Start a topic out from the office’s topic and let the topic become the main topic of the hang up section is one of my tactic for not to get involve in gossip party.

So, this is me. Some people think I am weird when come to the situation where they started enjoy the gossip because I just keep quite. But I think I quite enjoy to get along with every people in the office, because treat friends as asset of my life and I really appreciate every friends I met in my life.