Stress (400 hits)
Category: Business & FinancialRating: 1 on 5 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by <ejryuu.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2006-10-20 12:29:43 EDT
Where I work, we have extremely busy times of the year and very slow times. Never is there a happy medium to be found. Our largest peak season occurs in March. Everyone goes crazy, works long hours and people are generally miserable.
To help ease the suffering, management thought it'd be a good idea to print out and pass sheets of propaganda entitled "Quick Tips for Managing Stress" to everyone in the office. The gems of wisdom included things like stretching, taking deep breaths, proper posture and a slew of other boring things to help prevent an office-wide killing spree.
After reading the single-page manual on how I could improve my productivity and my physical and mental health, I nodded my head. It wasn't so much for the ingenius hints as it was for the parody brewing in my head.
The Human Resources director could be heard laughing from her office but I don't think she printed out any copies of what I emailed her:
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Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2006-10-20 16:48:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-20 15:59:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2006-10-20 14:34:39 EDT (#)
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Stress? That's what three martini lunches are for. That's got to be in your policy manual somewhere...
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-10-20 13:22:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have that bang head here thing on my door, so when I'm busy and need to close it, all the assholes I work with can stand there and smash their heads on it until they knock themselves out.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-10-20 12:37:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
You're not in accounting are you?
Do you ever notice how headhunters circle around like vultures when they know its busy season.