This Is Why Work Stress Is A Modern Epidemic

The shooter had been fired for a year already. He's just a nut. Stress had nothing to do with it. He could have found another job, but instead he puts on a suit every day and goes to get coffee.

Stress is a part of life and work. Deal.

If most people would learn to say NO their 'stress' would almost disappear. Problem is they are afraid to say NO or won't say no because they are 'pushing' to get a raise or move up the ladder. If someone is not finding a new challenge in their job each day, they should start looking for one that will challenge them daily. I was blessed to manage/work with over 800 [airline] employees who cared about the company and who came to me daily to talk about on job & personal problems. Most of them, like me found a new challenge each day; weather, mechanical delays, customer problems, co-workers out sick or conflicts, lost luggage, & equipment breakdowns. And we worked together to overcome those problems which in turn eliminated the stress & in then gave us a sense of satisfaction.

Not long ago, I heard an interview by a major business figure. He was talking about how his mother was a manager at a company when he was small. She had to be at work at 8am and was home by 5pm, in time to prepare dinner. The family was able to eat together and the phone was never answered at dinner. In the evening, they sometimes went to a movie, or stayed home to watch TV, or did Little League, as a family. He said that both he and his wife work. His wife is in a position similar to his mothers... a supervisor at a company. She is up checking email at 5am.... Calls start coming in around 6:30. She's in the office by 7am and is often dragging home at 8 or 9pm. If she has time for dinner or to do something on the weekend, it rarely goes uninterrupted.... He said his schedule is much the same.... and it's wearing them both down. However, a failure to jump thru the hoops means termination. One weekend both decided to turn off their phones and take a weekend away from the kids. Both almost lost their jobs because their phones were off and they had not checked their emails. Their employers are insisting that they have to ask permission before they can take a weekend away. The lines between work time and personal time has so blurred, that we are slipping into a slave situation.

When a 19 year old Wally manager interviews someone over age 50 for a retail job that has much more experience then calls them arrogant is there a problem with the manager?

First off, anybody taking the life of another over employment or any private relationship is the lowest on this earth. Move on, why be around anyone that doesn't want to be with you, walk away, forget about them. If a lot of people all around don't want to be near you, then understand that your ways are the problem. Own up to it, ask others what changes are needed and start working at being a better person.

Now for the stress. This is so simple to fix. It is simplely the dummie down the Americans and their (now pasted) good life and throw a few crumbs at the rest of the third world nations to make them happy. The rich want it all and want you to think your a dime a dozen. If nobody went to work at the poor quailty of life, low paying part time, with no benefits, that have ten's of millions working from paycheck to paycheck and failing health, no hope to ever retire. They would either pay better or go out of business. Their stockpile of money would be no good if no one was to work for them privately, because they only know how to have someone else do it for them.

They also know the work force is as divided as anything else in this nation and will never stand together to say enough is enough. So, enjoy your stressfull or poor paying job. All was fine years ago, the world turns at the same speed today as it did when all was good in this nation.

Allowing too many to pile into it, too fast, only ruined it's way of life. Allowing the big incomes to pay a smaller percentage of taxes, then a working person, is just as wrong.

Stress maybe part of it, but working for a company these days is different than it was even 10 years ago. These days company's not only want to know what you're doing at work, but also what you're doing off work and who you're doing it with. God help you if you don't like your company on facebook. Here is a company cell phone, remember you're on call so keep your phone with you. Oh by the way we didn't tell you but we can track your movements with the cell phone. Watch out boys and girls the boss is watching and so is big brother. Soon they'll be teaching you how to walk, how to talk and how to think. Remember George Orwell's 1984, it's closer than you think. Remember Soylent Green is people, that will be next. I love my country I fear my government.

Same problem different name, years ago it was called being postal, it should be called obamanal, after all is he the real reason we lose our jobs.

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Maybe it has nothing to do with stress. That's just another excuse given to cover some one's bad behavior. Maybe this person is just a nutcase. We have lots of them in our society, and all the excuses in the world will not change that fact.

That’s what you get for getting one of those jobs where you have to sing ‘I owe my soul to the company store’ or have to say yes sir (maam) or no sir (maam) massah. When you get one of those jobs, you are owned (maybe that’s what Biden was talking about concerning the chains). That’s the jobs these people sucked up for so stop complaining and suck it up.