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| Corporate life can take a serious toll on the mind, | | | | employees to develop frequent bouts of nausea. |
| particularly if you happen to be the one caught | | | | Besides the nausea, chronic fatigue also seems to |
| amidst the company's hustle and bustle. There are | | | | be a growing problem among employees that |
| a thousand things that need to be done any given | | | | attempt to survive in a Catch-22 environment. |
| shift, and you'd need at least a shift just to get | | | | Mental fatigue is also a problem, as some people |
| one of those tasks to be done properly. There | | | | tend to spend hours upon hours trying to figure |
| are also the occasional added duties of the typical | | | | out how to get out of the mess that the |
| employee, such as the meeting with the boss, | | | | company's policies have gotten them into, all the |
| rant sessions with fellow employees, and the | | | | while realizing that any attempt to get out is likely |
| pressures and responsibilities that the typical | | | | just going to get them deeper into the problem. |
| worker adds to his already overwhelming set of | | | | Naturally, from a realistic point of view, the above |
| problems. The need for stress relief is most | | | | situation is hardly feasible, but if work-related |
| commonly seen among people who are doing the | | | | stress and anxiety are not dealt with in a timely |
| dry grunt-work of a company, the ones working | | | | and effective manner, it can lead to some |
| the trenches at the front lines of the "corporate | | | | unpleasant situations. For the most part, the |
| war." | | | | common reaction when the situations get |
| Of course, a company employee may not | | | | extreme is to simply try and find a way to |
| necessarily be fighting a "war" against the | | | | escape, or at least get into a position where the |
| company's enemies, or business rivals, as the | | | | bureaucracy is less constrained. In a corporate |
| case may be. For anyone who has ever read the | | | | environment, the former is little more than just |
| novel "Catch-22," the rather daunting concept of a | | | | removing yourself from the company's employ, |
| soldier fighting the rigid bureaucracy of his own | | | | and the latter means working within the |
| army is a humorous, unpleasant yet all too realistic | | | | constraints to get into a position of power. Of |
| storyline. Unfortunately, for some corporate | | | | course, working twice as hard just to get away |
| employees, the Catch-22 is an everyday ordeal. | | | | from the bureaucracy means the company will be |
| They find themselves willing to fight even their | | | | getting more work out of an employee, but not |
| own corporate bosses. Even worse is when there | | | | have to pay more. Why does that sound like |
| is no convenient or regular source of stress relief, | | | | exactly what your typical corporate slave driver |
| which tends to wear down a person's mind and | | | | actually wants? If it does start sounding that way, |
| makes the situation much worse. Once a person | | | | then it is a safe assumption that your stress and |
| thinks the situation is getting worse, it inevitably | | | | anxiety at work has gone past being an anxiety |
| really does become worse, through some dismiss | | | | disorder and developed into a full-blown paranoia. |
| it as a mere quirk of fate. Yes, this sounds | | | | Next thing you know, you'll start thinking they're |
| terribly pessimistic, but there are several people | | | | all out to get rid of you. |
| who go to their jobs day after day --- resigned | | | | Read about thick calves and swollen calves at the |
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| The fact is, there are always a few disgruntled, | | | | Report this article |
| disenfranchised, and disillusioned employees who | | | | This article is free for republishing |
| will look at the corporate power structure and | | | | Source: |
| only see the Catch-22 bureaucracy. They literally | | | | Republish this article |
| see policies leading them around in circles, with | | | | |
| stress relief being just a pipe dream --- with each | | | | Ask a Question About this Article |
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