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Avoidance

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What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?

Act busy to avoid getting more work assigned. If you’re already busy, act busier. Rinse and repeat. This also works if you want to avoid chatting with coworkers. If they want to ask you questions about work stuff, tell them to throw a meeting on your calendar. 90% of people from my experience will never willingly schedule a meeting but be prepared for the 10% that will. None of this is a guarantee of smooth sailing but it helps make the daily less rocky.

Good luck!

From the Archives: Signs You are Suffering from Workplace Burnout

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1. You have to go to the restroom on another floor because the one you use is being cleaned. It takes you 5 minutes upon returning to your desk to realize…you aren’t sitting at your desk but the desk of the putz whose desk is in the same location as yours on this floor.

2. You can’t wait to get home and finish constructing that voodoo doll of your manager.

3. You’ve run out of people in your company to which you can assign *delightful* nicknames.

4. You’re happy to get picked for jury duty.

5. You’ve secretly put together background checks on all your co-workers “just in case”.

6. Fire drill = Super fun!