Gossipers are often very immature deep inside. They'll react to social stress that way, and over time it gets very tiresome.

About the corporate information game, I'm still a bit curious how it works (like many Ive seen my share of videos about social skills, and manipulation even, but i still don't see how this would work in real life) but everytime I'm tempted to play games .. I just feel drained. My soul is really not wired for that. Honesty is a supreme value.