Workplace Levity

Employers are stretched thin trying to keep afloat during these current economic times. Money is tight, banks are reluctant to loan, customers/clients don’t want to spend money and of course, employees still want their paychecks.

Employers need a little levity right about now. If you think your workplace has problems or gives you a headache, things could be worse. Your workplace and employees could have been included in the Top 10 List of Weirdest Work Stories for 2009.

It gives you a new perspective to compare the challenges at your workplace, with the employer who let an employee borrow his Ferrari and she flipped it causing $125,000 in damage; or the employer who had almost 150 employees get sick after a co-worker sprayed perfume at the workplace. This is not the way you want to brand your business or get it in the news. Hey, 2010 is looking brighter already!