If I find out people have been bitching about me behind my back I tend to drop them immediately. If folk don't like you then fine, but when they start trying to bad rap you then it's an instant cut-off point, see ye, bye then, nice knowing you, but.... time to fuck off now. I made the mistake of allowing that shit to go down too many times in my life. Par example. Here is an example of that that happened to me this year, I think this is a pretty shitty way to treat people. I worked as a volunteer is this place this summer, and really worked my nuts off for the place. Then one day I was sat down with one of the managers are told that I wasn't allowed to work after a certain time in the evening because 4 people had made complaints about me, only I wasn't allowed to know who it was. So I am then all the time wondering who it was, suspecting people who I considered my friends of bitching about me behind my back. I invited everyone to a meeting and politely asked them to say what their problem with me was to my face and then we can discuss it. Nobody volunteered for it so I left. Fuck dat. p.s. I am not the only person that this has happened to, and most others have left the place in ia similar manner.