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Mind your own business

Veiled threats over half-eaten yogurt containers, toothy smiles and cheap plaid kilts paired with $1200 boots are the premise of the CW's teen-dramedy, Gossip Girl. In the office, as in the glittery world of Gossip Girl, gossip is simultaneously a way of keeping tabs on what's going on, as well as a destructive force.

Though always intriguing, "what's different now is that the proliferation...

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