Annoying co-workers stress people out

UPI ^ | 7/27/06 | Staff

[Millee]

A new survey says U.S. co-workers' annoying habits are the number one source of stress in the workplace.

The top complaint was talking too loudly on the phone, followed by constant whining about work, the Boston Globe reported.

Nearly 60 percent of respondents to an online survey by job-search Web site www.truejobs.com said their co-workers' annoying habits negatively affected their work relationships, and 40 percent said it led them to seek a different job.

When a co-worker gets on your last nerve, it can create a physiological reaction, such as rising blood pressure, that increases stress and decreases concentration, psychologist Philip Quinn told the newspaper.

Despite the irritation, 54 percent of the respondents said they have not considered confronting their bothersome co-workers, the survey said.

[Lonestar_50]

We have a woman at work that hums and whistles non stop. I don't have to be around her all the time but a fair amount of people do. I don't know how they keep their sanity. If i am around her more than 2 or 3 minutes I am ready to go postal. What is the matter with people like this?????

[gentlestrength]

When my parents worked, they weren't allowed to talk or make noise until break time, which usually was just l/2 hour lunch break. You had no radios at the desk, no phone calls allowed, had to dress and smell clean and respectfully, etc. I don't know how workers are productive today.

The worst I saw was in a convalescent hospital, where government has again wrongly stepped in and by law now they are not allowed to turn off a patient's beeping room bell until they actually are in the room. So the nurses have to do all their charting, preparing precise medication doses right there at the nursing station where it is LOUD and continual BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP, for hours, day and night.

[linn37]

Its a trade! I'll just borrow one of those snot sucking devices from respiratory and some duct tape from maintenance.

[Moonmad27]

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[retrokitten]

LMAO!!!