..Beware the office worker known for resolving crises and put-
ting out fires at the last moment. He might have what Nathan
Bennett, a professor at Georgia Tech's College of Management,
in Atlanta, calls.."Munchausen-at-work-syndrone."
 
..This is the office's equivalent to the psychological disorder known
as, "Munchausen-by-proxy," in which someone induces or fabricates
an illness in someone close to them in order to attract attention.
 
..In the office version, it invaribly revolves around fictitious orga-
nizational problems that are invented and exaggerated by some
workers. Prof. Bennett says he regularly came across people who
did this while conducting a three-year study into team performance
at 30 companies.
 
..In one case, managementment discovered that a male worker was de-
liberately sowing conflict among employees {untruthfully telling one
colleague for instance, that a third person didn't want to work for him}
..then the hired problem-resolver, 'miraculously' brought about peace.
 
..Another subtle form of Munchausen-at-work involves volunteering to
perform an extra duty, such as mentoring new-hires, and then repeat-
edly threatening to give up the additional assignment.. in order to win
praise for staying on.
 
..Prof. Bennett says managers should look out for employees who resist
offers of help in fixing the problems they have identified, along with con-
flicting accounts of a problem's severity and a drop-off in office tensions,
when a particular employee is absent.

Please don't tell us we have a second Gamma to deal with. Was anyone talking about workplace issues on this game site? I guess it's alright as long as you want to actually talk about this topic. Is that what your hoping to do?
 
Cheers
IBIJ

..New member, 'H.o.M.' might want to speak for himself, but since
your question also concerns the type of 'unsolicited' post that
I do; don't many posts,{regardless of who they're from} start out
as unsolicited/off-topic, at one point or another?! {rhetorical,
question}.
 
..For instance, how does using a 'scattergun' subject approach,
on any number of subjects, somehow violate the spirit/and-or
"rules" of the definition of "miscellaneous"{?} while your own
periodic {and once frequent} Seventh-Day Adventist 'spiels' {some
of which led Nowhere, in terms of honest-inquiries, by others}
are/were acceptable?!
 
..Unless I misread the Caissa's Web 'BB'-rules, erroneously; off-
hand, I'm Not aware of it stating that miscellaneous subjects can
only be brought up, provided the 'author' of said post, is willing
to dialogue on a given {miscellaneous} subject!
 
..Does "pazzuzu"{sp?} dialogue much if at all, Re. his weekly
'conservative-idiot' posts, or does anyone Really care, if no
one responds, in a given week?! {another, rhetorical question!}
 
..If the subject matter listed doesn't interest a reader, {re-
gardless, of who posts something}.. I trust that most people,
{perhaps, excepting yourself} will Not link-up to it!..'doh'

Ive suspected that IBIJ has Munchausen-at-bulletin board syndrone for quite some time now.
 
D
 
P.S. also some other cronic syndrones/disorders

To, "IBelieveInJesus," Why No! {in answer to your initial
question}..does the subject-matter need to be already 'on-
the-menu,' for posting purposes?
 
..For the record, I used to work at MicroSoft's Redmond Wash.
headquarter's, and while there were a number of pressures and
inter-personal tensions at that workplace.. which caused
me to join a smaller 'easier-going' software co., fortunately,
the business-psychological condition mentioned in the article,
did not crop up at my former workplace!
 
..P.s. Apparently, you're a committed '7th-Day Adventist'{!}
What doctrine{s} do they stand for? ..just wondering.

Actually, posts of any sort can and do take place, once more prevelant on this MISC BB than today... but most people unlike Gamma actually want to converse about their posts.
 
I'll answer your question in a new post, as it makes a good title for it's own dialog.
 
Cheers
IBIJ