One of
Wall
Street's most feared traders has
denied his employees the joys of gossip-bandying at the office.
Unnecessary chitchat, they're warned, will cost them their jobs.
Billionaire Ray Dalio, has said that employees who gossip about
co-workers will be fired for behaving like 'slimy weasels.'
Founder of Bridgewater Associates, Dalio's list of rules for his one
thousand employees was leaked on the
Internet.
He had declared that any staff members who were overheard gossiping
maliciously about a colleague three times would be fired, according to
the Australian.
"Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to him directly,"
News.com.au quoted Dalio as writing in the document, called 'Dalio
rules'.
"If you do, you are a slimy weasel," he added.
The rules are useful for both the parties-while the company meetings are
stored in a transparency library so that staff can find out what their
managers are saying about them, bosses also can hear any nasty nicknames
they have acquired.
Dalio said that his workers loved his anti-gossip rules, which,
according to him, promoted honesty within the workplace.
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