IT Workers Face Dangerous Stress

feminazi writes "William Cross, CIO and Ph.D., told the IBM Share conference this week that IT workers often face dangerous levels of stress. In a Q&A with Computerworld.com, he described some of the manifestions: "They tend to be less emotionally stable. They tend to react strongly to small things that they might not react to under other circumstances. A change in schedule may be a crisis if somebody is really stressed." What to do? "Easy things. Exercise ... learn to relax, learn meditation, learn breathing exercises, participate in your religion — all of those things are very effective stress managers."" This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.

Other methods of relieving stress

[Anonymous Coward]

Go BOFH on your users.

It's a sure way to de-stress

Religion?

[Trouvist]

What happens when our religion is our IT work? Then when we practice it, wouldn't it become a viscious spiral into hell?

No shit!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF! Especially about the part where we over-react to small things - FUCK YOU! WTF are you talking about - cocksucker! I'll kick your fucking teeth in!

Oh wait, my bad! Too much coffee.

Re:Stress...

[Doctor Memory]

...remind me again, how do we measure it?

LARTs per luser?

Hi, my name is Libby Tarian

[Travoltus]

The truth is, American workers are the laziest and unproductive workers in the world. Part of their unproductivity lies in the feeble nature of their bodies.

You don't hear of Chinese or East Indian workers suffering from this kind of stress, do you? That's because they love their work and they're grateful, unlike you lazy union commies. They could be digging a ditch filled with Union Carbide chemical waste and they'd be singing in the acid rain.

It's articles like this that convince me that you IT workers need to be relieved of your stress by laying you off and sending these stressful jobs to East India.

After a few years in poverty I'm sure you'll come crawling back to Corporate America begging for a chance to work 24 hour shifts writing software.

Your health doesn't mean squat; corporate profits are far more important!

[libertarian parody off]

Re:Stress...

[NoBozo99]

Definition: Fighting the desire to strangle some idiot that absolutely deserves it!

Re: Hi, my name is Libby Tarian ... BOFH response

[Fallen Kell]

Perfect. Another "abuser" who so easily gave up her name. Let me go see here... Clickity, click, click, clack... Ahhh, yes. Let me see here. hmmm... looks like all her current programming work is being done out of her home directory. Click, click, clack.... Too bad it just suffered a disk failure. And lets go look for those backup tapes so I can perform the recovery. Lets see here, yes, tape103842. Lets just put it in the specially built "custom" DLT drive (you know the one that I modified the read/write head so that it actually writes the binary converted DC electric sine wave from the power supply to the tape when trying to "restore" a file). That will get things back in order. Let me also go connect my "special network patch cord" in for Libby's computer (the one that connects to the 240V 40Amp plug back here with the other end being her computer's NIC). Bzzzzz... POP! Yes, another satisfied customer.

Re:Stress...

[dbIII]

...remind me again, how do we measure it?

Force divided by area.

Re:Cause and effect

[Anonymous Coward]

Both and fuck you, I hate you, I hate myself, everything sucks.

Re:Other methods of relieving stress

[Anonymous Coward]

Things that work well (mostly) with LDAP: Samba, Postfix, that script that tells the router to poison specific arp caches, Proftpd, etc, etc. Things that work poorly with LDAP: Chuck, because I hate him.

Zen master says...

[gbjbaanb]

I was going to write a comment about why you're on a narrow-focussed path of self-destruction, but I think I'll just hit you with a stick instead. :-)

Re:Stress...

[Aceticon]

You mean using one's bare hands to squeeze the neck of the clueless manager that missplaned the whole project and then pressured everbody into working 80 hours/weeks for 3 months to get a big fat bonues is actually less stress than wearing army boots and giving that same person a good strong kick in the butt?

Amazing!