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."
I'm glad I don't have a job right now. 
I saw it a lot at my job at Compaq; up to the point of secretaries erasing things because they figured 'oh you have backups, right?' to the point of the lady who insisted that every time she wasn't looking we did something to her computer.
(Later we found out she was messing with settings herself because she "didn't like how it worked and wanted to teach it how to do things her way". And these are all people with college level education, and they all got paid more than I did at the time).
And there was the time we had an MCSE consultant working on some of our servers. I won't go there since it has traumatised me and I don't want to have another psychotic episode *twitches*
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
-for 6 days, a assistent cook used Gresse fat as replacement for butter "What, it looks the same"
-He was asked to trow emty the garbage & trow them in the dumster, so he did, toke the bags out & Trowed the Garbage Cans in the dumpster.
-when making Soup, 1tbs of salt is NOT one full BOX of salt.
-When Fries are ready, take the Basket out of the oil... not Plonging your hand in the oil to get them out.
Look, there are more i can tell you, but they would cut your appatite for the rest of the week. Them are all REAL things that i have seen people Do, unfortunatly.
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There was much rejoicing when Ukko The Popa Bear said this:
... in cooking, in restoration, you see the most idiot people:-for 6 days, a assistent cook used Gresse fat as replacement for butter "What, it looks the same"
-He was asked to trow emty the garbage & trow them in the dumster, so he did, toke the bags out & Trowed the Garbage Cans in the dumpster.
-when making Soup, 1tbs of salt is NOT one full BOX of salt.
-When Fries are ready, take the Basket out of the oil... not Plonging your hand in the oil to get them out.
Look, there are more i can tell you, but they would cut your appatite for the rest of the week. Them are all REAL things that i have seen people Do, unfortunatly.
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Hehehhe... canadians are funny.
My boss... the ONE PERSON that can ignore the labor charts and work as many hours as she wants leaves early every fucking day.
The rest of us have to make up for her work AND we've been cut back to 4 days because they just can't afford to pay us that much. (this is fucking blockbuster video... multi billion dollar corporation)
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Kermitov had this to say about dark elf butts:
yeah and unfortunately people rise to the level of their incompetence.My boss... the ONE PERSON that can ignore the labor charts and work as many hours as she wants leaves early every fucking day.
The rest of us have to make up for her work AND we've been cut back to 4 days because they just can't afford to pay us that much. (this is fucking blockbuster video... multi billion dollar corporation)
I had the same problem. I was getting no hours and being griped at because no one was working much... and the boss always left early. Eventually, I quit when they fired a girl for calling in sick her first time.
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Azakias stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I had the same problem. I was getting no hours and being griped at because no one was working much... and the boss always left early. Eventually, I quit when they fired a girl for calling in sick her first time.
I laughed when the 401k guy asked me if I wanted to put my withholdings into blockbuster stock. He asked why not and I replied "You don't know the people I work for."
blockbuster is doomed eventually. They've stopped caring about good employees and instead just want less people to do more work in less time so that they can enjoy their executive bonuses. I've already started looking around for a new job just based on the fact that I've asked for a transfer no less than 4 times because I'm sick of working for a lazy incompetent bitch and have been told flat out that I wont get one. Why? because the same lazy bitch has been talking shit about me and nobody has bothered to find out if it's true or not.
If you work for blockbuster don't ever complain about your boss because you have no recourse if they decide to smear your reputation.
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Kermitov had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
I laughed when the 401k guy asked me if I wanted to put my withholdings into blockbuster stock. He asked why not and I replied "You don't know the people I work for."blockbuster is doomed eventually. They've stopped caring about good employees and instead just want less people to do more work in less time so that they can enjoy their executive bonuses. I've already started looking around for a new job just based on the fact that I've asked for a transfer no less than 4 times because I'm sick of working for a lazy incompetent bitch and have been told flat out that I wont get one. Why? because the same lazy bitch has been talking shit about me and nobody has bothered to find out if it's true or not.
If you work for blockbuster don't ever complain about your boss because you have no recourse if they decide to smear your reputation.
This reminds me of a Dilbert comic. Dilbert asks Pointy Haired Boss for a transfer, and when he show up to the interview it says something like "He doesn't steal as much as you think a man of his hygiene would." Dilbert yells out that it's a lie and then the interviewer says the transfer also said he was prone to bouts of anger and lying.
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Alaan enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
This reminds me of a Dilbert comic. Dilbert asks Pointy Haired Boss for a transfer, and when he show up to the interview it says something like "He doesn't steal as much as you think a man of his hygiene would." Dilbert yells out that it's a lie and then the interviewer says the transfer also said he was prone to bouts of anger and lying.
See I'm lying about everything I said about my boss just because my boss says they're lies. Nobody has ever bothered to check up on my complaints, they're just lies.
It bothers me because I seem to be the only one who cares that my boss is lazy, steals, and goes home early every fucking day. And the company that stops caring about that is doomed in short order.
After writing all that stuff about Blockbuster I went in today to find that my transfer has been granted (8 months later).
yayyyy no more stupid boss!
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Bajah had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Working With Idiots Can Kill You!
Thursday November 21, 2002By KATE McCLARE
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Well, shit. I'm gonna die. Given the co-worker in question, and the levels of frustration, it shouldn't take long either.
