If most companies didn't approach employee relations like Nazis, business would be even more successful. Stress at the workplace is the number one preventable cost to employers in the United States. - It also leads to causing the second most preventable cost - stealing (by the way, statistics show that management level types are 30% more likely to steal than regular workers).

Hence the reason I now work at home. I don't make as much money as I used to, but I find that I do better work, get more work done during the hours I do work and I can go back and forth between work and personal time when ever I want. I regularly work until 2 or 3 in the morning and wake up at 10 or 11 am - and that appears to be my regular sleeping schedule.

When I am working and I feel like tha I've accomplish a lot, I reward myself by doing things like visiting Mudcat. (It is better than eating ice-cream).

The odd thing is that while I make much of my living by research on the internet and compute writing, I still spend a lot of time on my computer - I guess that's how you can tell if you like your job, if you do similar things to kill time.

OK, that's a longer message than I planned to share.

I would just like to encourage everyone to study up on National Stress Awareness Month (April) and see if you can do something to de-stress your workplace - your bosses will appreciate it once they finally see the increased level of productivity and the better attitudes of their slaves - I mean, loyal employees.

Pax yall