Happy Employees and Supportive Relationships in the Work Place(Page 90-91)

Supportive relationships and happy employees go hand in hand. If there is not supportive management then it is very hard to enjoy the job. When working you had to feel like you are needed and you also want an open communication line with your boss. If you feel that you do not have that open relationship with your boss then you can become very stressed which can make the quality of your work fall.

When I once worked for target I was feeling over worked and tired. They were using me in every department because I was good at my job. When I spoke to my manager about how the workload was too much she basically told me to deal with it. This caused me to have an unhappy relationship with my boss. Once I was upset with the management I slowly started to hate the job that I was doing. When I went back to her again she would not hear me and told me that if I didn’t do the job that she knew I could do then she would write me up. It was then when I put in my two weeks notice. I was so fed up with the bad relationship that I had with my manager that I did not want to work for her anymore.

This shows that if there is not a stable and healthy relationship between manager and employee then the employee may not want to do all the work that he or she is able to do. Without stable and happy relationships in a person’s life then people become distressed and end up leaving a job that they previously loved.

Workaholic (page 22-23)

When people work to much it can cut into personal relationships and create many problems. “Family relationships and friendships are often abandoned in favor of relationships with co-workers of other workaholics.” (Page 23) I feel that this statement relates to me because my father was a workaholic.

When I was a child my family did not have much money so my dad became a workaholic to try to give the family a better life. In the process of moving up in the company I lost touch with my father. I rarely saw him because he traveled extensively and was never home early. He always talked about how he hated the hours that he was working and that it would soon change. But soon turned into 5 years now, he is ahead in the company and staying home more. However, he has had to work hard and learn about his family all over again. He believes that even though being a workaholic did help make a better future he feels that he was left out of many experiences. He may have gained a better position but he gained it at the cost of his personal relationships.

I feel that sometimes people need to take a look back and attempt to think about how their work is affecting loved ones. They need to open their eyes and see some of the pain that being a workaholic can cause. If they are able to do this then they should be able to level out the work load and try to separate work from family and friends.