It is a harsh reality, the workplace stress not only affects work performance, but those you live with as well. Long hours at work take away time from family. Critical managers, demanding business owners, ill-equipped workers, budget issues and more can turn one's once positive personality completely upside down. And where does the seemingly self-controlled individual end up dumping his or her woes? On his or her closest loved ones.
Online media reports tell of workplace related stress adding a few pounds too. So not only is one disgruntled about work, but he or she is eating for comfort too while watching TV or surfing the 'Net late into the night.
The pendulum of mood swings go from right to left with many unhappy workers and usually end up hitting a few too many times into the unsuspecting on the home-front.
"It isn't work making me act like this...it's you!" A workaholic reasons his or her family is to blame. "I really wish you all would be more understanding! I am under a lot of pressure at work...will you just leave me alone!" the one who once wore a happy mask starts to unravel.
So check yourself before checking others this week. Something is obvious wrong and the workplace definitely has something to do with it. There is nothing wrong with taking some lunch time and/or a personal day to figure some things out. When everything else comes to an end, all you have left is the family you choose to allow in your life.
Nicholl McGuire
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