 Getting
off the Hamster Wheel
James O'Dea, executive
director of the Seva Foundation ( www.seva.org
), believes that attention to the sacredness of all
work is a primary way of making sure that doing
doesn't get ahead of being. Oscar Wilde complained
more than a century ago that people were so busy
that they had become stupid. O'Dea presumes Wilde
would now think that people, living at the speed
they do these days, had gone quite
insane.
If we are going to
effectively serve anyone, including ourselves, we
need to get off the hamster wheel. Our capacity to
serve is diminished until we begin investing time
in cultivating the life force within our own being.
We cannot fix on the outside what is broken deep
within the human heart and psyche. Something flows
within our being, an energy that takes form in
action. By nurturing that flow, we add quality to
what we do.
Now, There's desk
rage.
First there was road rage,
then air rage. Now, there's desk rage reports The
Wall Street Journal.
A New Economy cocktail of
longer hours, increased workloads and stock-market
tremors is fueling explosions of temper even in
once-staid offices. Companies generally do not
report instances of worker confrontations, but
occupational experts and authorities on workplace
stress say that the number of incidents is rising
along with their severity.
Lost tempers are probably the
most common. A survey on workplace stress released
last summer by The Marlin Company of North Haven,
Conn., showed that 42% of office workers said they
had jobs in an office where yelling and verbal
abuse happened frequently.
Here
are some Warning Signs:
-Skipping group lunches:
A signal someone feels demoralized and not part
of their work community.
-Coming to work late:
One of the first hints that stress is eating
away at motivation.
-Calling in sick
frequently: If people feel they aren't getting
a break at work, they may start taking them on
their own.
-Withdrawing: When
someone uncharacteristically retreats from water
cooler talk and office banter, it may indicate an
unhealthy distancing from colleagues.
-Obsessing: If
colleagues focus on seemingly insignificant matters
or isolated incidents, it may mean they are angry
or can no longer cope with the big
picture.
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