How does one cope with negativity in the workplace, especially with the person you share an office with?

It is difficult to keep a positive attitude dealing with this daily.

1) Refuse to listen.
2) Think about something else nice.
3) Change the subject.
4) Be busy and don't respond.
5) Don't encourage by agreeing.
6) Get one of those positive posters and hang by your desk.
7) Remind yourself you are lucky not to have to live with that person!

Kick the **** out of them!!! hahahahahaha

Dont give the negative person an audience. Try not to let them get you down. Keep positive or they will make you negative too.

I spend all day, five days a week, sharing an office with one other person. This woman has no joy in her life and seems try her best to keep it from others' lives as well.

I loaded some of my favourite music onto my laptop and bought a set of decent earphones. Life is so much better now!

I hate to say this, but I would probably leave if I had talked to my boss and there was no way I could get away from that person. Nobody pays enough for me to have someone else sucking the life out of me on a daily basis!

Be ultra positive to them. It pisses them off and has the added benefit that they can't complain about you. What would they say? S/he's too nice?

see the possibilities not the negativity. b positive &u can sure cope by taking a possitive attitude .now put on a smile, success is yur way

tell her to go get help for depression as its bring you down and make you stressed say I m not a negative person and why don't you look on the bright side for a change because your getting bored with her whinging all the time so get help or get lost.
OR make this sign up and leave it on her desk.
When things go wrong,as they usually will
and your daily road seems all uphill;
When your funds are low and your debts are high,
When you try to smile but can only cry,
and you really feel you'd like to quit...
Don't come to me- I don't give a sh....t.

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