Posts Tagged workplace stress

No More Garbage – Tip #1

Bad things are going to happen.  You are going to have good days and you are going to have bad days.  The best thing that you can do for yourself is to accept that garbage happens.  You are not going to be able to get rid of garbage or prevent garbage.  Spend your energy learning how to move forward.

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Entrepreneurship & Self Employment Look Better and Better

It’s nice to have a doctor give authority to the situation, but we all know that a stressful job is killing us.  We just didn’t have the statistics for it.

What I want to know is why aren’t workplaces doing anything about this?  Maybe we’ve had this all wrong.  We keep reporting to human resources when we have an issue with a boss.  In an exit interview, we MAY tell human resources the truth about why we left.  Maybe we need to change how we report this type of thing.  Maybe we need to report to OSHA.  After all, if the stress in the workplace is killing us, that makes the workplace hazardous and we need to be protected.  Right on OSHA’s website the first link is “Report Possible Hazards in the Workplace.”  (http://osha.gov/) With a 50% increase in cardiovascular disease due to a stressful boss, we may have a case.

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