Stifle yerself!

But venting one's anger outside of the workplace didn't seem to take a cardiovascular toll, at least. "Getting into a bad temper at home" was not associated with an increased risk of heart attack or cardiac death, the study authors found.

"And that, Your Honor, is why I beat my wife."

Apparently this study didn't include lawyers...I work for them and they never stifle!

The issue is not the repression of anger. The issue is letting everything anger you.

"those that don't are more than twice as likely to die of malnutrition and exposure from living in a cardboard box"

Umm, what about the ones that go on a shoot spree in the office?

And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

If it wasn't the wife, it would've been the dog. Think of the poor animals!

A lot of my team does push ups every day in our aisle, and at least for the women it does wonders for stress. Physical activity + sharing a laugh with your coworkers = 5 minutes of happiness.

...after 5 minutes, I'm swearing at the guy next to me again and imagining throwing people through windows, but for 5 minutes, it's good.

This is why I make every effort to fart while walking by the desks of people I dislike.

Fano: Stifle yerself!

Done in one.

/damn you.

StarshipPooper: "those that don't are more than twice as likely to die of malnutrition and exposure from living in a cardboard box"

Umm, what about the ones that go on a shoot spree in the office?

And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

I hate hypotheticals that contain detailed and precise descriptions of guns.

This is why I subscribe to the Dorothy Parker's philosophy:
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." taken with 2 hours of killing zombies, keeps me sane and healthy =)

StarshipPooper: This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

Your post made me think of this Medium-Large strip...

Interesting finding. I work for a prick, and I just let him know I wasn't going to take his hypocritical crap any more. I felt like a 16 ton weight had been lifted the next day.

"And that, Your Honor, is why I beat my wife."


Saw someone do that, once. (Use the line, I mean, not beat his wife.)

Priceless.

/ he was kidding
// i assume

Son of Thunder: But venting one's anger outside of the workplace didn't seem to take a cardiovascular toll, at least. "Getting into a bad temper at home" was not associated with an increased risk of heart attack or cardiac death, the study authors found.

"And that, Your Honor, is why I beat my wife."

I tried that defense, they don't believe it.

"As some wild turn of anger, or a mood
Of overstrained affection, it may be,
To keep me all to your own self,--or else
A sudden spurt of woman's jealousy,--"

- 'Merlin and Vivien' by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Uninpressed.

/And wants breakfast

I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!

I actually really like my work. I enjoy the drive to and from and like putting in my 8 hours, 5 days a week! You see, I have ways to "meditate" when I'm at work so as not to let the stress of dealing with difficult people build up. I have become real good at hiding my drinking and pop downers which I keep in my car in a locked box. I keep a real-doll in my car so I can travel in the car-pool lane. I tell everyone at work she is my wife and she waits for me every day, all my co-workers think she's real nice. The ones who don't will PAY.

But some of my best work is stifling!

I'm stuck working tech support on Thanksgiving week, so I'm getting a knifestab out of these replies.

StarshipPooper:
And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Lookin' down the barrel of an Armalite.

My work blocks yahoo, so I'm getting pretty mad about all this.

Google's ad sense is getting farking scary. Anybody notice the banner at the top of this thread?

One Million: StarshipPooper: "those that don't are more than twice as likely to die of malnutrition and exposure from living in a cardboard box"

Umm, what about the ones that go on a shoot spree in the office?

And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

I hate hypotheticals that contain detailed and precise descriptions of guns.

So... You're not a Tom Clancy fan?

I had a problem with some co-workers last year. I told my boss either they go or I go. He fired all four of them. Strange how once in a while there is justice in this world. 9:07 am where I am and I'm still drinking beer. That's justice too.

ObscureNameHere: StarshipPooper:
And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Lookin' down the barrel of an Armalite.

Ah, but it's far, far better than looking up the barrel of an Armalite.

/Just sayin'...

Headline: "Studies show that men who stifle their anger at work are more than twice as likely to die of a heart attack; those that don't are more than twice as likely to die of malnutrition and exposure from living in a cardboard box"

...or living in a van.....down by the river!!!

esteban9: Interesting finding. I work for a prick, and I just let him know I wasn't going to take his hypocritical crap any more. I felt like a 16 ton weight had been lifted the next day.

But unfortunately you were in your boxers, on your couch, eating cinnamon toast crunch...

jimmyschmidt: I had a problem with some co-workers last year. I told my boss either they go or I go. He fired all four of them. Strange how once in a while there is justice in this world. 9:07 am where I am and I'm still drinking beer. That's justice too.


I think I love you.

TXEric: ObscureNameHere: StarshipPooper:
And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Lookin' down the barrel of an Armalite.

Ah, but it's far, far better than looking up the barrel of an Armalite.

/Just sayin'...

Tell it to Sting.

ObscureNameHere: StarshipPooper:
And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

Or maybe you shouldn't come to me with every piece of trash you find around here.

/Or something.

badLogic: This is why I subscribe to the Dorothy Parker's philosophy:
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." taken with 2 hours of killing zombies, keeps me sane and healthy =)

Yeah, but the AR-10 is the old original 7.62mm model of the rifle. It would make more sense to use the far more common, and higher magazine capacity AR-15 in .223 caliber.

I don't have anger issues at work. Everyone I dislike seems to disappear without a trace.

jimmyschmidt: I had a problem with some co-workers last year. I told my boss either they go or I go. He fired all four of them. Strange how once in a while there is justice in this world. 9:07 am where I am and I'm still drinking beer. That's justice too.

Honestly, you probably had nothing to do with it. They were probably going to get fired anyway.

I work as a mid-level manager for an office in Atlanta. It has always been my philosophy to fire people once they become unhappy, and bring in some entry-level guys to start from scratch. It saves money, there's a lot less downtime than you would think, and it keeps everyone working well together.

I generally just go running after work. I find all the bottled rage helps lower my time on the 5K.

mybabysmomma: Apparently this study didn't include lawyers...I work for them and they never stifle!

Oh, they stifle plenty. Just not with people working under them.


//lawyer who went farking crazy from too much stifling

sboyle1020: esteban9: Interesting finding. I work for a prick, and I just let him know I wasn't going to take his hypocritical crap any more. I felt like a 16 ton weight had been lifted the next day.

But unfortunately you were in your boxers, on your couch, eating cinnamon toast crunch...

Oh, I wish! And for someone to subsidize this lifestyle. Please?!?!

Looks like we're leaning towards this thread:

Twenty-six percent of people say they've worked with someone who had the potential to go postal and take everybody out with a flamethrower and pipebombs filled with nails and rat poison

No HTML skills, so if that doesn't work, here's the link:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4775931

badLogic: taken with 2 hours of killing zombies, keeps me sane and healthy =)

THIS!

Killing stuff in WoW is my stress reliever and sure beats taking and Uzi to work.

//For The Horde!

The mute button is for worthless pieces of shiat like you! Be thankful I don't have a chainsaw and that you aren't tied to a chair in front of me.

Did I mention that my boss is a Dutch prick? Well, I guess that's redundant, sorry.

Billzebub: Looks like we're leaning towards this thread:

Twenty-six percent of people say they've worked with someone who had the potential to go postal and take everybody out with a flamethrower and pipebombs filled with nails and rat poison

That's the problem with business these days, everyone is afraid of losers going postal. If you just can them instead of put up with their stressed out bullshiat, it makes for a better environment all together. Besides, most of the freaks I've let go from my office were clumsy fat nerds that I don't think would even know what to do with a gun if they ever got one in their clammy little rat paws.

I don't understand why or how people get angry at work. Maybe it's one of those things I'll understand when I've got three kids at home or whatever...but I just can't fathom getting *angry* at work.

I go to work because I get paid. There just isn't much of anything that could get me angry. Or even annoyed. Anything that can be reasonably expected of me, I'm going to do and have associated emotional baggage. If I work at McDonalds and I have to empty the fries - that's hardly a reason to get upset. If I'm asked to do something unreasonable (but legal), I say, 'Ummm, I really feel comfortable doing that' and either end up not doing it or quitting.

Billzebub: ObscureNameHere: StarshipPooper:
And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

Or maybe you shouldn't come to me with every piece of trash you find around here.


worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave

Fark_Guy_Rob: I don't understand why or how people get angry at work. Maybe it's one of those things I'll understand when I've got three kids at home or whatever...but I just can't fathom getting *angry* at work.

I go to work because I get paid. There just isn't much of anything that could get me angry. Or even annoyed. Anything that can be reasonably expected of me, I'm going to do and have associated emotional baggage. If I work at McDonalds and I have to empty the fries - that's hardly a reason to get upset. If I'm asked to do something unreasonable (but legal), I say, 'Ummm, I really feel comfortable doing that' and either end up not doing it or quitting.

Ah, the passive approach. The Blue Flu. Wish I could get away with it.

esteban9: Did I mention that my boss is a Dutch prick? Well, I guess that's redundant, sorry.

Ugh, the Dutch.