Employee under pressure

Level of employee's madness

(short report about reaction of a human exposed to common work life)

Lucky dog

• Looks: attractive, stylish, fresh, charming - but all chill and easy-going
• Signs: happy, happy, happy, optimistic, enthusiastic, nicely decorated office, wall newspaper and office desk, joking (with boss), flirting (with colleagues of oposite sex), smiling like a stupid, telling everybody how much he LOVES his job
• Ariving: on time
• Leaving: on time
• Special note: Okey, I'm a liar, this level doesn't really exist. I just wanted to start with something nice and pleasant. But if you know somebody feeling like the Lucky Dog, go ahead - let me know and break my utopian dreams!

Diligent/Hard-working

• Looks: still good-looking, paying rather big attention to his appearance, trying to follow latest fashion trends, but due to being absorbed in work, he's often misplaced
• Signs: 12 and more hours working time, strong naivety, belief in meaning of his work, willing to start any (even useless) work (= volunteering), although not sleeping very operative and active, addicted to coffee, black tea, multivitamines and stimulating drugs, scatter-brained when overworking too much, muscle twitches
• Ariving: earlier then others
• Leaving: later then others, or staying day or two...
• Special note: These are typical idealistic workoholics. Staying in this level may ruin the social and family life, cause a multifarious variety of diseases and health troubles (starting with flu, end with malaria).

Awaken

• Looks: bug-eyed, unkempt, shabby clothes
• Signs: suspicious, nervous, panicked, desperate, disenchanted, frustrated, later apathetic or falling asleep, due to sleeping problems in the night, first trying to get rid of all addictions, then stops trying and gets some new addictions
• Ariving: little late
• Leaving: at first opportunity
• Special note: This level is a breaking point - if the employee does not suffer a nervous breakdown now, he continues either to the upper levels, or he proceeds to some specialised medical center or changes job definitively.

Revolutionary/Counteracter:

• Looks: extravagant dress adverting hidden messages, provocative
• Signs: wrangling, rejecting the orders and work, intentionally counteracting them, spreading seditious thoughts, inclination to extremistic opinions, coarse manners, laughing at almost everything the boss says (strictly speaking sneering at him, first unobtrusively, then openly, into his face)
• Ariving: pointedly late
• Leaving: pointedly early
• Special note: Might be very influential to other employees in lower levels, he seems convincing to them.

Fighter/Counterstriker:

• Looks: cunning scary = he simulates normal look, but there is something worrying, nightmarish, creepy and disturbing in his appearance (like in Hitchcok movies, it is all part of a well-considered strategy...)
• Signs: working more than Diligent employee (NOT on assigned duties, but on marauder action), stubborned, very active, energetic, giggling and sniggering, laughing without any clear reason (private jokes), chafing hands, insensitive to external stimulation, ignoring the surrounding world, startled when addressed, strongly concentrated on his own inner world full of deranged plans
• Ariving (= appearing): unexpected
• Leaving (= disappearing): unexpected
• Special note: In this level employee may meet his colleagues that left from the Awaken level straight to specialized medical cenrtre. He joins them.