Emotions At Work — Page 2

Bingowings said:

How is a mood injury significantly different from a skin or tendon injury?

You need your mind and your body for work.

If you injure one it may cause a small amount of  impairment but not necessarily enough to prevent you from working.

However if someone has a 'thing' about limps and sees a limping man as a distraction that slight malfunction in one worker triggers a concentration malfunction in the other.

If they worked on their attitude to limps so it wasn't a 'thing' anymore they guy with the wobbly foot and the guy who used to be hung up on limps both can get through the day and pick up their wage check without having to resort to ugly bloody violence.

Similarly one worker may have been mentally traumatised before coming to work.

Maybe her cat was run over by a slow moving car or his wife had foolishly allowed herself to be caught their bed with another man.

This is the limp but in a mental sense.

They can still work but they have a bit of a short fuse (nothing fatal) but enough to annoy someone who finds short fuses distracting enough for it to be a 'thing'.

You follow?

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think we'll ever find some sort of middle-ground upon which we can agree.

Let's agree to disagree, yes?

Bingowings said:

NO GOD DAMMIT YOU WILL BEND TO MY WILL OR I SHALL OBLITERATE EVERY FIBRE OF YOUR FLIMSY APE BODY!!!!

opps....

 

 

sorry... bad day.

lol ^_^

I don't have the body of an ape. I'm one of the six. I'm a robot.

Bingowings said:

Yeah but you have a body of an ape thanks to that filthy goddess Ellen Tigh.

No, I lack the body of an ape. I'm more like Crow from MST3K.

"Baby, you got the body of an APE! DAMN!"

Bingo, you gotta work on your pickup lines.

Picking-up is easy. You just have to not put-down.

I should write a book.

With all these *sigh*'s I wonder if Warbler is responsible for the constantly rising CO2 levels...

;-) :-P

*sigh*

Sometimes a person going through a rough time and being hostile just needs someone to put a hand on his/her shoulder and ask, "Hey, are you okay?"

Labeling someone as angry, hostile, unstable, etc. is a cold, unsympathetic path to take. You can never know what someone is going through unless you are in that person's shoes.

Anchorhead said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Can you ask more explicitly? I'm running on very little sleep :-(

So what you're saying is that your lack of sleep has caused you to become intolerant of others? 

I think if people have had very little sleep, even no sleep, they should be able to turn that exhaustion off when they log in here and not start angry ranting topics.

Incorrect. I was saying that my lack of sleep prevented me from understanding what he was asking of me. It had absolutely nothing to do with my level of tolerance.

Nice attempt at trying to turn my argument against me, but sadly, it didn't work.

A+

Well, I hope for your sake nothing ever does.

Thanks, me too.

I took 2 weeks off.  I should have taken 2 years, but I couldn't afford it.

That's unfortunate. I hope you didn't consequently take it out on your coworkers, for their sake.

TV's Frink said:

This thread is ridiculous.

I agree. I wasn't planning on posting anymore, but... I did.

It seems to be the case that most people here disagree with me and that's fine. I acknowledge that I do take an extreme position on this issue. With that being said, it does seem like a many-on-one fight or, possibly, gang rape.

^Welcome to OT.com. They scare off a lot of people like that, but... not usually in off topic.

TV's Frink said:

Gang rape?  Really?

 

Wow.

You thought I was serious?

I was dicking around.