Conference Topic 4

I feel that I manage my emotions fairly well, especially in the workplace. I generally try to keep any showing of stress to a minimum. If need be I take a short break to pull my thoughts together. I also exercise a few times a week. I have found that this greatly relieves stress and helps me better manage it. There are times when emotion has shown through.

During the first few months of my job I was traveling which was extremely stressful at the time. I was also working for a company that was not my own as we were subcontracted out to do work. In all honesty the people I was working for were not very intelligent and had no plan to get the work done. They would not take suggestions from me or any of my coworkers and insisted we do things their way, even though they had no plan. I was often made to redo work multiple times because they would tell me to do my work one way then ask me to do it again, but a difference way. This was extremely frustrating and one time I was quite angry and actually walked outside for about an hour to calm down after being asked to redo work that took me 4 days to finish, not to mention it was the 5th time I was told to rework it. Disregarding the extreme situations though I feel I manage my emotions extremely well.

I can ususal tell when someone is in a bad mood. They will normally seem frustrated and might not smile at all. I think the smiling is a dead give away that someone is not in a good mood. I do sometimes ask if something is bothering them, depending how close we may be as coworkers. If I don't feel they would be comfortable talking with me about something I probably wont ask to see how they are feeling.

This past week many people at my office were stressed and feeling rushed. This is busy season for us accountants so we are all putting in no less than 55 hours a week, working at least 6 days a week. We are all a bit stressed.