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5 Emotionally Intelligent Habits For Handling Frustration At Work


That sudden rush of anger when a coworker blames you, a feeling of disappointment when your idea is rejected, resentment towards an egocentric boss, and the stress of meeting other people's expectations can be a constant source of frustration at work.

Just like a rubber band you feel stretched to your limits, ready to break at any moment. One tiny push in the wrong direction can wreak havoc in your mind, break your world apart and distract you from being productive in your work.

Every single day there's so much to dislike about work. A boss who doesn't care, coworkers who are mean, clients who nitpick, a support team that doesn't care to respond, meetings that suck away into your time and energy, and emails and messages that live in a world of their own with no sense of time.

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Self-Service Delivery

I remember the first time I experienced Heroku. The simplicity of deployment via git push heroku master was so elegant. It gave every developer the power to ship from a simple push. It was also a PaaS, so you didn't need to ask anyone for infrastructure to run your app. There was no deployment script to write and no CI configuration to craft and test, thanks to pre-defined buildpacks. The assumption that apps were similar and could be built by standard buildpacks freed us from the need to define the build and deployment ourselves. We were free to focus on writing code, to develop and ship without needing permission and with minimal or no toil to deploy.

The experience as a developer was delightful and it empowered us. But then pesky requirements like support for more sophisticated architectures than a simple app instance, and more rigorous build, test, and deployment support reared their heads. PaaS fell short of the demands of most real-world apps because it wasn't flexible enough.

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The Secret to Workplace Morale May Very Well Be DevOps

Does the above video hit just a little too close to home? (You haven’t watched it yet? Sigh. Ok, I’ll wait.)

As I was saying, if watching the clip of what has to be one of the most dysfunctional workplaces imaginable feels like déjà vu for you, first of all I would like to say, “I’m sorry.” And second of all, I would like to share with you that you are absolutely not alone. According to this piece from TED’s The Way We Work series, 60 percent of people worldwide are unhappy at work. Sixty percent. That’s more people than actually live in the United States of America. That’s higher than the percentage of Americans who voted in the last presidential election. That is an obscene amount of people.