Working With Idiots Can Kill You!

[07ImpalaSS]

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."

[Gary Sword]

I know I have worked with a few. Now that I have my own company I still sometimes have to work with some of my client's employees that are metally challenged.

[Tonya]

Originally Posted by 07ImpalaSS

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Stupid co-workers can also double or triple someone's work load, she explains.

I work a local bank branch. I don't know how many times I have to fix stuff for customers that another branch has messed up. I get so !! I have even had customers tell me I was sent to this office, by employee X from branch X, they said you are the expert at fixing this type of issue. Man after the customer leaves, of course, I explode.

[dengood1]

I have a "challenged" individual that works for me and yes, additional work is created sometimes(a lot of times actually), but he is the most reliable, hardest working employee I have so I deal with it. At least when we need more blank paper for the printer he doesn't take the last one and go "copy" it on the copier so we can have more Of course, if I asked him to, he would