Working with IDIOTS can kill you!

[Dixie_Peach 1]

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 Centre.

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 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 internalise 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 an entire 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."

This article came to me in an email... my friend had scanned it and sent it to me. I do not have an accurate source... but I thought it was not only hilarious... BUT RIGHT ON THE MONEY! haha

ENJOY!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I believe it.

[Jasman0717 9]

[Miranda&James 8]

Oh man, I'm gonna be dead by 25. I don't work with idiots (my coworkers are great!) but the people who I deal with (college students, and I'm one as well, but not an idiot like these!) certainly are

[Baileyj96 0]

I work in an automotive testing lab. I have no choice...............I work with crash test dummies.

Baileyj

[Sinergy 3]

Before i began working at home (prolly a good thing for a longer life) i worked in an office with one of the STUPIDEST people ive ever met.

We were CSR's for a EBAY store, wed take orders and make sure mailing addys were correct and so on.

This lil ding bat actually asked me one day: "what is EU? Is it in Indiana?" i almost slapped her.

anyway it was like this all the time, i had to say something to her when she asked me "This lady wants to know if we ship to Ohio, but i thought we dont ship to Asian countries????"

At that point i went and bought her a map of the world, an encyclopedia(sp sorry im sleepy), and then began working at home because i just couldnt take it anymore.

and to think she was thinking of homeschooling her daughter when she began school HAHAHAHAHHAHA

poor kid

[iceyspots 0]

Isn't it even more sad when sometimes those idiots make more than you do or have higher positions of authority?

[Sinergy 3]

never had that happen, but the thought is very scary

[I'm Gone 60]

I like working with idiots. It makes me look that much better at award time. LOL

[Sinergy 3]

I like working with idiots. It makes me look that much better at award time. LOL

good point

[Dixie_Peach 1]

I work in an automotive testing lab. I have no choice...............I work with crash test dummies.

Baileyj

*snickers*

[Widge 0]

hate to party poop (regardless of how true we all know this article to be) but the email article has been floating around for a long while and is totally spoof as detailed here

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/idiots.asp

Personally I reckon it could be very very true - just not scientifically proven yet

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I know I sould have asked for hazard pay when I accepted my job. Damnit!

Edited April 14, 2006 by ET-US2004

[Aymerlu 3]

I better quit my job!

[silverbutterfly228 0]

So TRUE!!! lol. i got soo stressed when there was a stupid person working at my work. Thank god she is gone! i relax more. i dont think i really have to worry about heart attacks at 19 though.