Jaundiced management adages: true or false?
FOR all our leveraging this and interfacing that, the workplace has remained a fleshy, pulsating mass of humanity. Amid the quiet clicking of keyboard keys, wills routinely collide with egos. In meeting rooms across the island, agendas are being propelled by ambition or torpedoed by incompetence. The daily micro-frustrations of Cubicle Land can be fatal for its denizens. A Swedish study released in 2009 found that study participants with worse bosses had a higher risk of ischaemic heart disease.
AS we ponder our toil this long Labour Day weekend, it helps to know that others before us have long contemplated the hell that is other people. They have left jaundiced observations behind, some of which might describe your current professional quandary perfectly, and others which might be hilariously out of date.
What matters, however, is that every uncharitable thought you've ever had about the workplace has already been expressed by waggish observers of the rat race.
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