When i had been at my first job for about a year,i was hoping for a promotion Instead,they hired a new woman for the job that i had wanted About six month,a friend who worked in human resources told me that the woman had been given a really bad performance review My friend said that if the women's performance didn't improve, she would be in danger of being fired I knew that this was confidential information,but each time i was haveing a conversation with someone in the office,i somehow found myself gossiping about it.