Working With You is Killing Me

by office on April 11, 2006

Lets face it, if you work in an office there are people who you’d love to shove out of the 7th story window. They come in all shapes and sizes, from the suck up, the tattler, the chatty Cathy, overly annoying boss and many more. They can make going to work and absolute nightmare. You get to work and things are clipping along, work is getting done and the blam! Someone sidles up to you in your cube and chats your ear off for half the day. I’ve seriously almost quit my last two jobs and the main reason was annoying co-workers.

But don’t let these people ruin your dream job. Don’t let them stress you out to the point where you can’t get to sleep at night and you don’t want to wake up in the morning making you late over and over. Learn how to deal with these trouble makers by reading “Working With You is Killing Me : Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work“, by Katherine Crowley, a Harvard-trained psychotherapist, and Kathi Elster, an entrepreneurial consultant. Their book is so dead on that I thought they had been observing my office for the last few years. They nail the situations with uncanny ability and they offer practical solutions that help avoid tension that could just lead to more problems in the office. Their solutions often lead you to take the high road, which I admire. Sometimes it’s so hard to bite your tongue and do the right thing after someone has hounded you for so long. They teach you to establish boundaries and curtail the behavior in others that is causing so much stress in your work day.

Pick up Working With You is Killing Me : Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work from Amazon.com for $14.92. You’ll be glad you did.

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Eric W. April 12, 2006 at 6:50 am

A coworker in my department is serving his last week here before moving onto another better paying job for himself. The sad thing is that he was about the only person making this job (note I say “job” and not “dream job”) tolerable, so things around here are going to quickly become rather grim.

I think it has come to the point where nearly everyone in this company is either: A) So miserable of their employment that you are not fronted with overly positive chipper “looks like someone has a case of the Mondays” attitude or B) It’s kind of mindless, meaning people come to work do their thing but don’t really say much in the way of it being satisfying or dissatisfying (which can be a good thing).

Unfortunately for the building I work in, we only have three floors; I think my coworkers would bounce rather than absorb into the pavement.

Chrispian April 12, 2006 at 10:06 am

Eric, I love the way you put it “serving”, lol. That’s often how I describe work. Even if you love your job, work is still work. And when you really think about it, we all have a minimum sentance we have to serve before we get “out”.

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