Stress in the workplace

When you got up the morning you had a song in your heart, but the moment you stepped into you workplace you felt irritated and negative.

Your workplace is swamped with potential stressors. It can range from noise pollution, enormous workload and people who irritated you endlessly.

So what makes you feel that everything at work is so unbearable?

• The radio. Having to listen to the same radio station, with the same boring music, jingles and ads, can be torture at its best.
• Irritating habits. People, especially in an open office, have irritating habits that can drive you up the walls – gossiping, loud personal telephone conversations, annoying cell phone ringtones, sniffing and loudly chewing gum all day. You might also have one or two of these grating habits. Spending your whole workday in this irksome environment can be enough to raise you stress level.
• Unhealthy food from the canteen and the subsequent heartburn in the afternoon.
• Dilemma’s. Most offices seem to struggle with workplace affairs, back stabbing, gossip and big talkers who do nothing. The workplace is a pretty competitive place and you don’t need to be distracted by emotional issues that have very little to do with you.

These four examples are just a few of the stressors encountered at work. My advice is for you to start to create little patches of normality for yourself. Handle and change the things in you power, for example use earphones for your music, manage your diary, get faulty equipment fixed or replaced and stay out of office politics.

There is other stressors you can’t change, such as unilateral decisions, endless meetings and the sense of “all work, no pay”. Some companies will pay employees not what they are worth, but what the employer can get away with. Learn to ask for what you think you are worth.

My last suggestion is that you invest in yourself and get a mentor that can assist you in managing you life better and experience better quality of life.

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