Ruediger
15.08.2003, 09:35
Working With Idiots Can Kill You!
By KATE McCLARE
STOCKHOLM -- Idiots in the office are just as hazardous to your
health as cigarettes, caffeine or greasy food, an eye-opening
new study reveals. In fact, those dopes can kill you!
Stress is one of the top causes of heart attacks -- and working
with stupid people on a daily basis is one of the deadliest forms
of stress, according to researchers at Sweden's Lindbergh
University Medical Center.
The author of the study, Dr. Dagmar Andersson, says her team
studied 500 heart attack patients, and were puzzled to find 62
percent had relatively few of the physical risk factors commonly
blamed for heart attacks.
"Then we questioned them about lifestyle habits, and almost all
of these low-risk patients told us they worked with people so
stupid they can barely find their way from the parking lot to their
office. And their heart attack came less than 12 hours after
having a major confrontation with one of these oafs.
"One woman had to be rushed to the hospital after her assistant
shredded important company tax documents instead of copying
them. A man told us he collapsed right at his desk because the
woman at the next cubicle kept asking him for correction fluid --
for her computer monitor.
"You can cut back on smoking or improve your diet," Dr.
Andersson says, "but most people have very poor coping skills
when it comes to stupidity -- they feel there's nothing they can
do about it, so they just internalize their frustration until they
finally explode."
Stupid co-workers can also double or triple someone's work load,
she explains. "Many of our subjects feel sorry for the drooling
idiots they work with, so they try to cover for them by fixing their
mistakes. One poor woman spent a week rebuilding client
records because a clerk put them all in the 'recycle bin' of her
computer and then emptied it -- she thought it meant the records
would be recycled and used again."
Gefunden u.a. hier (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20021121/103789080005.html)
Gibts aber noch bei vielen anderen Stellen zum nachlesen! ;)
By KATE McCLARE
STOCKHOLM -- Idiots in the office are just as hazardous to your
health as cigarettes, caffeine or greasy food, an eye-opening
new study reveals. In fact, those dopes can kill you!
Stress is one of the top causes of heart attacks -- and working
with stupid people on a daily basis is one of the deadliest forms
of stress, according to researchers at Sweden's Lindbergh
University Medical Center.
The author of the study, Dr. Dagmar Andersson, says her team
studied 500 heart attack patients, and were puzzled to find 62
percent had relatively few of the physical risk factors commonly
blamed for heart attacks.
"Then we questioned them about lifestyle habits, and almost all
of these low-risk patients told us they worked with people so
stupid they can barely find their way from the parking lot to their
office. And their heart attack came less than 12 hours after
having a major confrontation with one of these oafs.
"One woman had to be rushed to the hospital after her assistant
shredded important company tax documents instead of copying
them. A man told us he collapsed right at his desk because the
woman at the next cubicle kept asking him for correction fluid --
for her computer monitor.
"You can cut back on smoking or improve your diet," Dr.
Andersson says, "but most people have very poor coping skills
when it comes to stupidity -- they feel there's nothing they can
do about it, so they just internalize their frustration until they
finally explode."
Stupid co-workers can also double or triple someone's work load,
she explains. "Many of our subjects feel sorry for the drooling
idiots they work with, so they try to cover for them by fixing their
mistakes. One poor woman spent a week rebuilding client
records because a clerk put them all in the 'recycle bin' of her
computer and then emptied it -- she thought it meant the records
would be recycled and used again."
Gefunden u.a. hier (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20021121/103789080005.html)
Gibts aber noch bei vielen anderen Stellen zum nachlesen! ;)