9:47. Meeting’s at 10. You know the agenda and have practiced your line that you may never actually have to deliver and your heart is racing. Meeting anxiety can make even a routine work meeting feel surprisingly stressful. 9:47. The meeting will be at 10. Know the agenda and have a line that you may…
You asked for a project update. The reply was: “K.” Just that, and a period — somehow carrying an entire message of “don’t talk to me.” Breathe out long and then say, “it’s all good” — but it’s not all good. A backhanded compliment: “I wish I had time to make such detailed slides,” meaning…
You rewrote the email three times so it wouldn’t offend anyone. You smiled through being interrupted in the meeting. You said yes when you had no room left to give. And after all of it, you still haven’t gotten the respect or the promotion. This is the psychology of why, and exactly how to change…
A bad boss creates problems. A gaslighting boss convinces you that you are the problem. That difference is the most dangerous part. You are just overreacting. This situation is not that bad; you are just being overly sensitive. You are looking for an excuse to do work. If you hear comments like these from coworkers or a…
You treat everyone politely and respectfully. You try to keep everyone happy, but people target and bully you. You never judge people based on how they look, but people bully you very easily. In my school time, I saw many very sensitive students, and people used their weaknesses to bully them. They were easily bullied…
Something went wrong in the middle of the meeting, and my heart immediately urged me to “stop”, yet I lashed out at a colleague over a trivial matter. This sudden realization of an anger issues at work left me shaken. Once it was all over, I couldn’t even recognize myself, angry, irritable, and out of…
