How to prevent work rage?
August 25th 2008 11:38
Its not just comedy - these things happen. One minute you are lining up at the photocopier, waiting for the previous person to finish their printing. You get there and there is a big paper jam that the last person didn't bother to fix. It was up to you. You've been waiting for 30 mins and this is what you get?? You chuck the paper around, and try to clear the paper jam. In the end, you start to bash the machine and a bunch of people are at the door wondering what this lunatic is going to do next.
Rages can come in different variations at the work place. It can be frustration about the slowness of a task being done (including the loading of a website) - it can directed at certain people in the office that simply just drive you nuts - or it can be the result of little things piling up, just waiting to explode.
Sometimes, these rages can cause friction between colleagues and possibly a sacking.
The other day I really really wanted to murder a couple of clients myself. However, a couple of deep breath in the back room later, I was back at the front counter sweet as an angel and everything was lovely dovely.
Traditionally everyone would just tell you to take a deep breath and get on with it. However if you really do have a problem with certain people, or with the work load or simply just feel stressed and pressured, many organisations now provide free counselling and emotional management to their employees. Ask your HR about it. These are independent and anonymous counselling services that allows you to call 24 hours a day to talk about any problems at all, even if it's personal not professional. Remember, personal and professional life will coincide and will never really balance until you sort it out. Sometimes its the clash of the two that makes you feel extremely stressed and causing irrational behaviour and decisions being made at the work place.
Having friends in the same company but from different departments also help, but becareful what you talk about. There are confidentiality issues with talking about certain things even to the employees of the same company. The danger of talking excessively to colleagues is that you'll also be seen as a 'whinger' or a 'gossip' - so the 24 hours hot line may still be the better option.
Breathing is still a good remedy. However, if you don't talk about it, it'll just build and build and will eventually become another problem.
Rages can come in different variations at the work place. It can be frustration about the slowness of a task being done (including the loading of a website) - it can directed at certain people in the office that simply just drive you nuts - or it can be the result of little things piling up, just waiting to explode.
Sometimes, these rages can cause friction between colleagues and possibly a sacking.
The other day I really really wanted to murder a couple of clients myself. However, a couple of deep breath in the back room later, I was back at the front counter sweet as an angel and everything was lovely dovely.
Traditionally everyone would just tell you to take a deep breath and get on with it. However if you really do have a problem with certain people, or with the work load or simply just feel stressed and pressured, many organisations now provide free counselling and emotional management to their employees. Ask your HR about it. These are independent and anonymous counselling services that allows you to call 24 hours a day to talk about any problems at all, even if it's personal not professional. Remember, personal and professional life will coincide and will never really balance until you sort it out. Sometimes its the clash of the two that makes you feel extremely stressed and causing irrational behaviour and decisions being made at the work place.
Having friends in the same company but from different departments also help, but becareful what you talk about. There are confidentiality issues with talking about certain things even to the employees of the same company. The danger of talking excessively to colleagues is that you'll also be seen as a 'whinger' or a 'gossip' - so the 24 hours hot line may still be the better option.
Breathing is still a good remedy. However, if you don't talk about it, it'll just build and build and will eventually become another problem.
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