Wednesday, August 25, 2021
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Our church supports the Far East Broadcasting Co., and one of its missionaries - Dr. Victor Ahkterov - spoke to a united SS and then in our worship service. His stories were fascinating and thoroughly current. If you'd like to hear his presentation (about 10-12 minutes), you can access it on youtube at:
... and Victor's presentation is about 18 minutes into the video. He tells a powerful story of visiting his father, a physicist, in a Siberian prison camp when Victor was 16. Anyway, the broadcasting ministry is penetrating many places that were previously inaccessible. I wanted to ask him if he had encountered the SA in his travels in Russia, but wasn't able to speak with him.
A bad boss boostS the risk of HEART ATTACK!
Anna Nyberg of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that working for a bad boss boosted the risk of chest pain, heart attack and death among more than 3,000 well-educated, middle-class Swedish men. She reported that men who perceived their bosses as poor leaders had a higher risk of dying than men who perceived their bosses to be competent.
Worse, the longer these men labored for a bad boss, the greater their stress and risk of heart disease or death. Nyberg found the association held regardless of social class, income, lifestyle, workload, or established heart disease risk factors like smoking and lack of exercise.
The Solution:
Do what you can to change the work culture in your office. Building positive relationships with coworkers and working to forge better communication with your supervisors may go a long way in terms of improving the morale within your work environment. If the situation is untenable, consider talking to human resources to see if there is a legal way to remedy the hostile environment in your workplace. And if you truly feel that the situation is taking a toll on your health, consider looking into alternative employment.