Do You Suffer From Desk Rage?

Get out of the way, road rage. Here comes desk rage.

Anger in the workplace -- employees and employers who are grumpy, insulting, short-tempered or worse -- is shockingly common and likely growing as Americans cope with woes of rising costs, job uncertainty or overwhelming debt, experts say.

"It runs gamut from just rudeness up to pretty extreme abusive behaviors," said Paul Spector, professor of industrial and organizational psychology at the University of South Florida. "The severe cases of fatal violence get a lot of press but in some ways this is more insidious because it affects millions of people."

Nearly half of U.S. workers in America report yelling and verbal abuse on the job, with roughly a quarter saying it has driven them to tears, research has shown.

Other research showed one-sixth of workers reported anger at work has led to property damage, while a tenth reported physical violence and fear their workplace might not be safe.

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Comments

[AtomiClash]

10:51 AM on 07/14/2008

I believe this qualifies as a symptom of Marx's proletariat alienation: desk or otherwise, if you hate y our job, in some way, you hate yourself.
Hmmmm.

[WIpatriot]

05:38 PM on 07/11/2008

I really hate that when office workers who suffer from desk rage take those desks out of their designated cubicles and into the unregulated aisles, where they bump into innocent colleagues and run them into filing cabinets and other innocent colleagues.

[OtayPanky]

09:35 PM on 07/11/2008

What's really scary is when they start heaving those desks out those horrible office building windows that can't be opened.

[WIpatriot]

11:21 PM on 07/11/2008

That's why I park far enough away from the building....