Abstract
For this assignment I decided to interview a good friend of mine that has been in the workforce for almost 4 years. He prefers to stay anonymous, so I will only call him by his first name: Thomas. The interview has been done in French, in face to face. I took some notes and tried to translate and to rewrite almost everything he told me.
The most often it is just people speaking in the back of others. Some people tell you things that others shouldn't know. The problem is that this kind of attitude creates tensions between employees and that can really affect the communication between them. It creates groups of "friends” inside the company. When you're young and new in a big company like that, you try to find people with who you can talk to, eat lunch, take a coffee, smoke a cigarette, etc... Those people tell you many things about people in the office, even people you directly work with. You finish by being in between and having to keep things for yourself, even if we ask you questions. This might be quite typical of big companies with lots of employees.
