What do you do when you have a bad day at work?

Question

I'm not having one yet, but I thought I'd see what you do, and share something I recently heard.
Try this: Stop at the pharmacy, & purchase a rectal thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson. Be very sure you get this brand. When you get home, lock your doors, draw the curtains and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed. Change into very comfortable clothing & sit in your favorite chair. Open the package & remove the thermometer. Now, carefully place it on a table or a surface so that it will not get chipped or broken. Now the fun part begins. Take out the literature from the box & read it carefully. Notice in the small print the statement: "Every Rectal Thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson is personally tested and then sanitized". Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud five times, "I am so glad I do not work in the thermometer quality control at Johnson & Johnson." Have a nice day & remember there's always someone with a job that is more of a pain in the butt than yours :)

Answer 1

I try to spend extra one-on-one time with my son -- that always puts me in a better mood!

Answer 2

Nice one Tonya -- here's another one--
"My office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So here's what we do to keep warm. We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20K piece of equipment sucks teh water out of the sea. IT heats it to a delightful temp. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a good plan, doesn't it? I've used it several times with no complaints...
When I get to the bottom and start working, I take the hose and stuff it down the back of my neck and flood my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
Everything was going well until my a** started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my itch started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done.
In agony, I realized what had happened. The hot-water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. I had put that hose down my back, but I don't have any hair on my back, so the jelly fish couldn't get stuck to my back...
When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into [let's just say a delicate area]. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communications system. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he and 5 other divers were laughing hysterically.
Needless to say, I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make 3 hellish in-water decompression stops totalling 35 minutes before I could reach the surface for my chamber dry decompression. I got the the surface wearing nothing but my brass helmet. My suit and gear were tied to the bell. When I got on board, the medic, with tears of laughter straming down his face, handed my a tube of cream and told me to coat [everything] when I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't [#2] for two days because [anatomical feature] was swollen shut.
We've since modified the equipment to filter out most sea creatures...
Here's hoping none of us have a bad day at the office, but if we do -- at least we didn't have a jellyfish squished to our most sensitive and delicate body parts...

Answer 3

Good one, Tanya!
I sleep on the bus going home, kiss my wife, hug my daughter, sit in the recliner to go through the mail and read the paper, then help get dinner ready. I forget all about work and don't give it a second thought.
Actually, all my days are pretty drab so it is hard to tell when one day is bad or worse than any of the others.

Answer 4

Hmm. First, when I had a bad day I would take a breathing break, go outside, do 3 deep cleansing breaths, try to find something in nature around me to appreciate, even if only a pigeon overhead. That would ground me. Now I pray for peace of mind, and strength to do what I had to do, to get me through the day.
As for the "personally tested and then sanitized"EWWWWW!!

Answer 5

Tonya,
That is a wonderful suggestion. I never had a Bad Day at Work. I taught school for 28 years and I pray that some day I will be able to return to finish my retirement. I am disabled as a result of my childhood diabetes. GOD has blessed me in so many ways that I never had a Bad Work Day. HE was always there beside me and with me. Have a great week.
Thank,
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Answer 6

That's amusing.

I usually get home, have a glass of home-brewed mead, and take a nap. If possible, I drag my mate in with me for wild monkey sex before the nap. Upon awakening, I make a cup of Constant Comment and enjoy it slowly before throwing myself into dinner preparations.

Answer 7

I try to something that doesn't have to do with work in any way,shape or form. Me personally I like to watch a movie, the TV taught me about life.

Answer 8

auto-pilot until the day is done. Brigham Young insisted on an honest days work for an honest days pay was the core of his religion before and after his conversion

Answer 9

Pray for relief

Answer 10

Go Postal!