Are you job-stressed?

toxicboss.com

HAS YOUR boss denied you your rightful promotion because he doesn't like your surname or for any other parochial reason? Has he reneged on a promise of a raise? Has he assigned you your "rightful" place at the bottom, though you possess skills your worst detractors cannot deny? Has he dragged you kicking and screaming and put you on a train to a god-forsaken place (unwanted, unfair transfer)? Does he bully you and treat you like you were something the cat had brought in?

To cut a long story short, if your boss treats you in a way that causes stress, undermines your self-esteem and stretches your health, you would do well to visit toxicboss.com. It offers resources to deal with a difficult boss or as the website would like to call him, a "toxic" boss.

healtheoffice.com

This website is for desk jockeys and mouse potatoes. For the busy (read lazy) among them who have no time (read inclination) to visit a gym, healtheoffice.com brings the gym to the office. It provides "one-minute workouts", desk exercises, desktop diet, "stress stoppers" and a horde of other "fitness capsules" that could be ingested while at office.

shiftworker.com

I think the word brunch must have been coined by a shift worker. The word sums up his misery. But it's not just his eating habit that's out of joint; even his sleeping habit is. Since a shift worker is by and large a nocturnal creature, he yields to slumber when his family and friends would be up and about. And there's more to daytime sleep than meets the eye. His unconventional sleeping habit whittles down that which makes life livable - sharing one's time with family and friends. If he does not get enough sleep, he could be crabby. That's where his family should be understanding and supportive of him.

The website suggests ways to cope with the problems that arise from shift work. Since the shift worker is not alone in his misery, shiftworker.com is also for those who have shift workers in their families.

jobstresshelp.com

Well, that's just what the website does. Helps ease job stress.

workingwounded.com

A workplace is like a rugby ground. If on a rugby field friction of bodies causes bruises, in a workplace friction of egos leaves wounded souls. At workingwounded.com your workplace wounds are nursed. The website addresses career and workplace issues. It says it adds "insight to injury." Find out if it makes good its promise.

i-resign.com

So you've decided to quit. But have you decided how to do it? Are you going to throw vitriol, shoot gripes and storm out or leave with a firm handshake and a dignified bow, or jig out with sunny wit and a Boyscout smile? If you are still undecided, go to i- resign.com. The website provides a "how-to" on resignation. Resignation etiquette online for you.

Would someone go to Agra and not visit the Taj? That's what you would do if you visited i-resign.com, but did not read the sample resignation letters. These are real resignation letters by real employees tendered to real employers.

Here's a sampler: "Dear boss, I can no longer spread my sheets or e my mails. I just don't Excel. My point has lost its power, and my micro is soft. I can't access my binder, basically my photo is shopped. Time to be recycled."

donsbosspage.com

Corporate scriptures thunder: "It's not enough if you do the job; it's also necessary to be seen doing it, to climb the ladder." In a fit of blasphemy, donsbosspage.com has added more than a jot to this inspired revelation. Here's the blasphemy: "Thou shall not do the job, still shall thou be seen doing it."

Donsbosspage.com provides tips on how to fool the boss, how to take, but not give. An idiot's guide to "How To Fool Your Boss." Even if you are above board and a conscientious worker, visit the site for its humour.

workhumor.com

Here you read workplace-related jokes and real-life office Blunders, Incidents and Tales (BITs). You could also contribute jokes and BITs, if you have any.

Resume!

First impressions die hard. We would spend more time and care on our resumes if we realised that we are our resumes. To our prospective employers we are, more often than not, just resumes. We make our first impressions only with resumes. For resume- drafting services and tutorials, visit provenresumes.com, free- resume-tips.com and 7step-resumesampler.com.

(Contributions by Prince Frederick)

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