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Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
By maureen collins
 Most people have experienced change in their working lives in recent years. It may have been a major restructuring of your department or your organisation, or something as apparently straight forward as moving from your own private office into an open plan environment.
Either way, it is common to find yourself working closely with a new group of people in working conditions where you have to be concerned not only about their competence, but also about their personal behaviour and often irritating habits.
Knowing how to speak up when the person next to you is driving you crazy becomes an important skill in our highly pressurised working environments. Mostly, we do not speak up at all. We are scared that we will say the wrong thing, cause offense and make matters worse. However, long days spent close beside a person with personal habits you find irritating or distasteful can become very, very stressful.
It can be the rave music ring tone on their mobile, set at loud: or the way they shriek hello to their friends: it can |
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