How Do You Deal w/ User Induced Stress? 171
Anonymous asks: "I've worked as a Network/System Administrator at a small company for two years now. It's my nature to remain calm and collected while trying to accommodate everyone, even when having a particularly stressful day. After two years though, I've recently found myself being stressed all the time and my calm, cool exterior is starting to show some cracks. How do Slashdot readers cope with the stress induced by a highly demanding job and being stalked by users asking for the same thing over and over (i.e. password resets, login problems, how do you...)?"
Easy... (Score:5, Funny)
Serenity Now... (Score:2, Funny)
Or your boss, for that matter? (Score:5, Funny)
I'd love to know.
Vodka... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Or your boss, for that matter? (Score:5, Funny)
"The cost/benefit ratio increases dramatically, along with exponentially increasing time to deployment, in that our competitors have a much increased chance of overtaking our solutions.
My suggestion is that we freeze features for a specified version, and branch our software when we feel that our profit margin is maxed. This would guarantee that we would force our customers to upgrade on our cycle, thus guaranteeing future profits."
I'm a network engineer in the consulting "business". In order to maintain contracts, you have to do the talk, and speak the language. Money and time are all that matter.
Re:Or your boss, for that matter? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Or your boss, for that matter? (Score:2, Funny)
You can also write your letter of resignation, print it out, and put one of those "Sign Here -->" Post-It notes on it. Put a pen on it and leave it on your desk. He'll get the message.
The answer is in the headline (Score:3, Funny)
start a mini help desk audio file (Score:2, Funny)
The CD version may not relieve the stress, but at least it will cover beer and aspirin money.....
Short video on the subject (Score:2, Funny)
--Paul
Gonja, mang! (Score:3, Funny)
I also agree with the person who posted about exercise. I started working out three times a week over a year ago, and now I go anywhere from three to five times a week. It definitely helps with stress, and has the added benefit of making you feel a lot better about yourself, too.
BOFH... (Score:2, Funny)
That'll give you a few ideas to get started.
Re:Or your boss, for that matter? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exercise! (Score:1, Funny)
I believe the poster wanted to be more stress free rather than less.