“Mealtime is the primary time for social interaction,” Shippee says, but it also can be a scene of cliquishness — “like high school.”

What’s going on with all the pretend cliquishness and all that fake sunshine being blown up mutual rear-ends?

As important, she said, is avoiding the pitfalls of office gossip and cliquishness that can sabotage the strides women have made in their professions.