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So how do you know if you, a loved one, or someone who reports to you is suffering from burnout? Here are the early-warning signs.
1. Chronic fatigue - exhaustion, tiredness, a sense of being physically run down
2. Anger at those making demands
3. Self-criticism for putting up with the demands
4. Cynicism, negativity, and irritability
5. A sense of being besieged
6. Exploding easily at seemingly inconsequential things
7. Frequent headaches and gastrointestinal disturbances
8. Weight loss or gain
9. Sleeplessness and depression
10. Shortness of breath
11. Suspiciousness
12. Feelings of helplessness
13. Increased degree of risk taking
I'll bet everyone who works for, runs, or is connected in any way with Tuesday Morning is suffering from all thirteen symptoms!
Still don't believe there's a problem in America? More history of fearless leader. Round two for the Republican happy crowd!
Number 2: Bush Sr.
1953 George Bush and the Liedtke brothers form Zapata Petroleum. Zapata's subsidiary, Zapata Offshore, later becomes known for its close ties to the CIA.
1954 The Bush family buys out the Liedtke brothers.
1955 George Bush sets up a Mexican drilling operation, Permago, with a frontman to obscure his ownership. The frontman later is convicted of defrauding the Mexican government of $58 million.
posted by Ed @ 7:11 PM
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To my regional manager that did not listen to me: If the words hit you that means you are the one.
I was confident in my ability to do my job, believed I had reasonably good people skills, and was a conscientious, responsible and valuable employee. Up to that
time, my performance evaluations and letters of recommendation from various past employers had confirmed those assumptions.
But in this particular position, I was outmatched.
In less than six months, I was a wreck. I was working 9-hour days – with an increasing number of those hours devoted to responding to the continuing barrage of memos, emails and criticizing my performance. Every time a new email appeared on the computer screen, I cringed in anticipation
of yet another twist of the knife.
At night, I would go home and drop dead at the couch.
My husband was worried; he wanted me to resign. I kept thinking that somehow I could get through to my manager, that we could resolve the issues and that, finally, we
would all live happily ever after.
Of course, that never happened. Instead, I reached the breaking point. The Workers Compensation doctor that I had recently started seeing insisted that I had to stop working … at least for a while. Until I was healthy again . Bullying may be defined as using one’s authority to undermine, frighten or intimidate another,
often leaving the victim feeling afraid, powerless, incompetent and ashamed.. In the workplace,
bullying is characterized by a wide array of behaviors – from subtle to glaringly obvious.
Often the targets of bullies enjoy their work, or would, if left alone to do it. But once
targeted by a bully, they are faced with increasingly unreasonable demands and a constant
campaign to undermine them until they are finally forced either to quit or call for help. Frequently
the effort to undermine includes humiliating the target; diminishing the individual’s authority and autonomy; overloading the individual with work or, conversely, taking away the usual workload and replacing it with menial and/or meaningless tasks; constant, unnecessary oversight; and distorting or even fabricating “facts” relating to the target’s performance.
Bullying often begins in a relatively subtle fashion and almost always represents an
accumulation of many seemingly minor events. That makes it even more insidious: Events, when
taken in isolation and out of context, may seem trivial. It may take weeks, even months for targets
of bullies to understand what has been happening to them.
The bully’s victims often unwittingly contribute to the delay in understanding what is
happening to them. They typically have high standards themselves, have done well at their jobs
in the past, have consistently received above-average performance evaluations and are
dedicated to their work. It is these very qualities that make the victims easy targets, since they are
typically eager, and sometimes over-eager, to please their managers. They want to do their job
well and they take pride in their work. When they encounter the initial swells of criticism, they
redouble their efforts: working harder, staying later, doing more. To no avail.
If your manager subjects you to
persistent, unwarranted criticism whether public or private; if your manager undercuts your
authority and/or areas of responsibility, you are being bullied.
Similarly, if your manager constantly condescends to or patronizes you, withholds
information you need to do your job; constantly and arbitrarily changes your work deadlines,
bombards you with tons of work refuses to return your calls or , ignores or constantly interrupts your work while you are opening boxes with no lunch or break or comments, or denigrates you to regionals or zone managers, you can be again be pretty certain that
you’ve been targeted by a bully.
In addition to an intense focus on the trivial, bullying is often also characterized by a
constant refusal to recognize the target’s positive contributions, achievements or intrinsic value.
Your work is never quite good enough. Clearly, bullying in the workplace is many things, often obnoxious, frequently cruel. What
it is not, however, is illegal in the US – unless it devolves even further into physical violence
and/or it is directed against members of protected classes identified by laws such as Title VIII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 50 –
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