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08-07-2003, 06:52 PM
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Location: Canada
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Working with idiots can kill you!
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/...stanceid=50720
Working with idiots can kill you! By KATE McCLARE STOCKHOLM -- 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 basis is one of the deadliest forms of stress, according to researchers at Sweden's Lindbergh University Medical Center. The author of the study, Dr. Dagmar Andersson, says her team 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 be 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 they just internalize 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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08-07-2003, 07:05 PM
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Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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Yeah, I've worked with all these morons. I've also had customers that insisted that I pull a sandwich out of thin air or change the toppings on the pizza without being able to return to the store first.
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08-08-2003, 09:59 PM
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In highschool my computer science teacher always paired me with horribly stupid people for projects. I asked why she did that one day and she said "Because in real life you don't choose who you work with". I said "In real life my co-workers would be qualified to do the work". I guess I am wrong if there are a lot of idiots out there.
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08-09-2003, 05:21 AM
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Location: Wisconsin, USA
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08-09-2003, 07:43 AM
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Location: Oklahoma
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The only thing I wanted out of life when I left high school was just to find a girl who could "get" me. I had this ridiculous IQ (168), 4.0 gpa, etc., and I loved to talk about things on a deeper intellecutal level. Instead I ended up going out with girls who loved to shop, get drunk and basically had a hard time figuring out what day of the week it was. I was very lucky to meet my wife who was also in grad school at the same university. We are able to talk about most things, and if she doesn't always get what I am saying right away, she is smart enough to ask questions until she gets it.
Seriously, I'm pretty lucky in my job to work with very smart people. They can get what you are saying with the barest amount of information. That being said, there are still the people behind the scenes (invoice coders) who really make the Accounting department go but can't find their way out of a paper bag. It takes about 20 percent of my day to correct accounting mistakes on items I never even see until they are completely through the system. |
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08-09-2003, 08:24 AM
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Fucking Hostile
Location: Springford, ON, Canada
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I work with stupid people but I am atleast allowed to physically harm them if they are REALLY stupid. It's in the employee handbook (which I wrote).
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08-10-2003, 09:15 AM
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Location: Home.
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Oh man, you don't even know about stupid people until you've worked in or around the military. All these little punks straight out of high school that never grow up. It is the most ridiculous experience I've ever had. I've gone home crying some days because I'm so irritated at them.
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08-11-2003, 03:39 AM
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Location: Belgium
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I just hate stupid people. I think they should have to wear signs that say "I'm stupid". That way, you wouldn't rely on them, would ya
 Gratuitous quote, but it applies here I would say
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