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NBC's "The Office" mocks our stressed out WorkLife Nation
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With a Super Bowl lead-in, NBC's "The Office" took the opportunity to touch upon the growing epidemic that's sweeping the workplace globally in the wake of the economic meltdown. Stress at work.
You can check out some of the hilarious highlights by clicking on NBC's "The Office" site. I promise you. If you are reading this right now and you are having a lousy day at work, watch a few minutes of this and you will laugh yourself into a better mood.
The sitcom took what would appear to be a ridiculous stance on workplace safety, wellness, and stress. But on further dissection, the show was right on target. Our work life harmony is in serious disrepair and needs an infusion of some sort of balance or stress-busting edict across the board. But it's not something that happens overnight. Accumulating resistance to the chaos around us takes a bit of practice and know-how as I mentioned in yesterday's post, Jennifer Hudson's work life resilience at Super Bowl XLIII.
We're not all going to perform at the Super Bowl, nor are we going to be called upon to land a US Airways jet safely into a splash-landing into the Hudson River like Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (talk about grace under stress at work) But we have to head to work every day and just survive, let alone be productive, manage to get along with our colleagues, and perhaps keep our job.
Our working and living experiences have merged in our global marketplace. The line is so blurred. How do we navigate all the sensory overload while cultivating resilience so we can be productive in our seemingly merged WorkLife Nation? Humor is a good place to start.
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