{"id":1336,"date":"2007-12-13T06:32:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T12:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/cube-rage\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T12:05:21","slug":"cube-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/cube-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cube Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ManageSmarter.com offers up this article &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.managesmarter.com\/msg\/content_display\/training\/e3i3fb15146c85de4abcf2ab3244591f037\">Cubicle Conniptions<\/a> &#8211; that discusses office behavior that mirrors road rage (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Workplace violence is increasingly common in offices, and it isn&#8217;t limited to physical injury or assault, but includes any act in which a person is abused, threatened, intimidated or assaulted at his or her place of employment. <strong>Thirty-three thousand workers are assaulted on the job each week in the U.S., and 17 employees are murdered, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m speechless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ManageSmarter.com offers up this article &#8211; Cubicle Conniptions &#8211; that discusses office behavior that mirrors road rage (emphasis mine): Workplace violence is increasingly common in offices, and it isn&#8217;t limited to physical injury or assault, but includes any act in which a person is abused, threatened, intimidated or assaulted at his or her place of employment. Thirty-three thousand workers are assaulted on the job each week in the U.S., and 17 employees are murdered, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. 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