Question:
I would appreciate any quotes on "workplace stress" or "job stress".
Answer:
People react defensively to situations in which they feel both
threatened and under pressure. The threat is usually not physical...
In the workaday world, the blows we receive most frequently are
psychological, and the deepest wounds we get from them are to our
motivation and our feelings of self-worth.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk
when you would like to read; you have to laugh when you feel like
crying; twenty things interfere with twenty others; you have not time
for a moment's thought, and nevertheless you have to be constantly
ready to act without allowing yourself to feel lassitude, either body
or spirit; ill or well, it makes no difference, everything at once
demands that you should attend to it on the spot.
Every manager knows the problem of battling the daily, even hourly,
barrage of operating data that assaults his mind. The realization that
I could not track every detail of my business came as my days got
longer, my nights got shorter, and my leaden briefcase seemed
increasingly likely to unhinge my right shoulder.
Top 15 best things to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk:
15. They told me at the blood bank this might happen.
14. This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time
management course you sent me to.
13. Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper.
12. I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and
envisioning a new paradigm!
11. This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!
10. I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.
9. Actually doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (Sleep)
8. I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve
work-related stress. Are you discriminatory towards people who practice Yoga?
7. Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to
our biggest problem.
6. The coffee machine is broken....
5. Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot.
4. Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!
3. Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!
2. Wasn't sleeping. Was trying to pick up my contact lens without hands.
And the #1 best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk:
1. Amen.
Bin: "Don't clap till it's really over."
