Working With Idiots Can Kill You!

[LadyNoir]

Working with idiots can kill you!

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 bests is one of the deadliest forms of stress, according to researchers at Sweden 's Lindbergh University Medical Centre.

The author of the study, Dr Dagtnar Andersson, says her teams 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 he 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 the just internalise 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”

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[Sumyr]

So, basically you're saying I have to quit my job.

[jacqui]

I will moniter my blood pressure before and after staff meetings. I am usually lite headed from the ignorance and brown nosing.

[Proudbrothaman]

I'm a Electrical Tech and I was testing voltages across this power source. Each power source required certain switch to be flipped while testing. The cool thing is I went through and labeled each thing that needed to be tested and flipped together with alphabet letters. I told the idiot that was flipping the switches to go to "A", this dumb S.O.B. went to "C' and I got hit with 1400 volts. Thank God I was using the Right Hand Rule. For those that don't know 9/10 it's not voltage that kills you that's why a stun gun can hit you with 100,000 volts and you live. It's the Amperage that stops the heart. 1/2 an amp can kill you. Nevertheless getting hit with that much voltage will knock your socks of, trust me on that one.

[WellSpoken]

you know what gets to me is when someone coming into the firm and thinks they know more than you. young and stupid

[LadyNoir]

Originally Posted by WellSpoken

you know what gets to me is when someone coming into the firm and thinks they know more than you. young and stupid

What's even WORSE is that they have to be trained by the ones who are already there, yet they know more than anybody. And even worse than that is, for example, once I applied for a job in the company where I'm now employed for a position as a trainer. They hired an outside person (YT of course) and we all had to train her so that she'd know how to train new people who were hired. I got in trouble over that one because I didn't cooperate, didn't tell her enough to get her 5 feet away from my office in any direction without a guide dog. :whistling

Needless to say, she went to my manager about it, but they had the good sense not to send her my way again!