Exercising Restraint in the Workplace

Sulking

Have you ever had breakfast while you are simmering or stewing in anger and you're trying to keep the anger from spewing like hot molten lava?  I just did, this very morning.  It was not an easy feat, I assure you.  Exercising restraint is not for the weak at heart.  But it's something I had to do to prevent from hurting people's feelings even if I felt slighted.

Intolerable Behavior in the Work Place

In a fit of uncontrolled anger, a man lost his job today.  Why was he angry?  I don't know.  He was probably  stressed to the hilt, with debts piling up and family problems rising like flood.  All these things may have been too much for his already fogged up mind and the slightest provocation sends his temper soaring sky-high.

Except that, I didn't provoke this person.  I merely performed my duties as his supervisor with all the considerations I could possibly accord him.  But as I try to discuss things with him, he flared up as if it's my fault that I caught him sleeping while on duty and I had no right to chastise him.