Americans Keep Going Postal

[Puppyjive]

Just about every week or so, someone in America has gone postal. I just feel compelled to tell you. If you are making someone so extremely mad at your work, maybe you ought to think twice about your behavior. We are on this earth for such a short time, shouldn't we be promoting peace instead of hostilities towards one another? We have enough crap in our daily lives to contend with, the least we can do is treat our coworkers with respect and decency. I knew someone who was harassed constantly at work and threatened to commit suicide because of it. He finally quit his job of 30 years because of it, which shortened his pension by about $500.00 a month. Greed has taken it's toll on this country. It is becoming a battle between the haves and the have nots. It's time to get back to peace and prosperity in this country where we can all share in the wealth.

[Sherman A1]

1. Agreed & Well Said

Yet it is often not a case of "making someone mad at work". Certainly that occurs, but how often is it more systemic? How often do we feel pressure from the "do more & more with less & less" mantra of our corporate or business world? We hear or see layoffs, closures, etc and fear for our own jobs, so we skip breaks, lunches, work sick, go in early, stay late, go in on days off (for just a few hours) do work from home after the kids are in bed just to keep up with the increased workloads that have been handed us due to those layoffs or closures in other parts of the companies in which we work. Our techie world never lets us get away from office email or phone calls and our bosses know that we can be reached. Supervisory types are under pressure for results and that pressure rolls down hill in the form of increased demands upon lower management and workers.
(A bit of a compilation of several workplaces in my immediate family.....)
There is no time to even come up for air or to run to the restroom. The phones are constantly ringing, the mail needs to be processed, the inbound emails need responses, every night this week you have a client with a function you must attend, there are three meetings before lunch (none of which make any difference, but you must attend and still get your regular work done). sales have been good but we need one more item per customer, we are coming out of the holidays impacted by a snowstorm, but yet supervisors expect your store conditions to be perfect in less than 24 hours despite worker call-ins and late or missing deliveries............

[Toots]

2. Maybe if there were more guns available in America?

Especially those with large magazines and have rapid fire capability..:shrug:

[Javaman]

5. I'm going to lobby congress to put machine gun nests on every corner!!!

Then and only then will we be safe!!

[stray cat]

3. It never stopped even when the economy was good - some people like to murder other people

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[Lorien]

8. Once again stray cat, you object just for the sake of objecting

Of course this sort of thing happens more frequently in a poor economy. So does crime and suicide. No, I don't believe that the people doing it by and large "just like to murder people". I think they are sick, desperate, or simply snap. Murder isn't "normal" human behavior; there's always a trigger.

[Javaman]

4. You forget about the people that are generally pissed off all the time.

I work with a few of those types. Then there are those that take meds, think they are okay, then stop taking them. I have a few of those here as well.

I am scared of the day, when one of the generally pissed off types forgets to take his or her meds.

[Mopar151]

6. There was an excellent post a few day ago here about

Psychopaths and narcissists in management.