Your work, you’ve always loved it. The mission you are responsible for, creativity it requires, goals it offers you, everything is fine. Only here, for a few months or even a few years, it is as if your activity is losing its charm. The context is for many: Your colleagues will have lunch without you at corporate restaurant … While blaming you for not integrating. Your skills are considered “high” by your hierarchy, but never you are told that you have worked well; On or hand, you are asked to respect more and more rigid procedures, and if you ask questions, you are retorted by raising shoulders “What are you negative (VE)!”. So, little by little, your dose of stress increases and you go to work with anxiety.
This form of professional dislove, journalist Danièle-Ufer has lived it. She tells of conditions and most deleterious effects in a subtle, sharp, never condemning tale: Tako Tsubo, a Grief of Work (ed. LLL). Nine years of insidious relational difficulties in a press group have ended in cardiology emergencies. There it is spoken first of infarction. But it is discovered that it suffers from a “Tako Tsubo”, a very strange cardiac pathology- left ventricle expands and resumes its form after a few hours-which has been translated as “broken Heart syndrome”.
“I was not an overburdened frame of responsibility, I wanted to hold because I loved my work, I felt privileged, even though I was not very well paid”
The burn-out is evoked. But journalist prefers to speak of “grief”: “I was not an overburdened frame of responsibility, I wanted to hold because I loved my work deeply, I felt privileged, even though I was not very well paid.” I wasn’t living eir as a victim or a scapegoat. All my loved ones, my friends, said to me “stop”, but I felt like a warrior who was facing … and lost. “
Philippe Zawieja, psychologist and associate researcher at Ecole des Mines in Paris and at Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, which coordinated Dictionary of Fatigue (ed. Droz), notes that term “burn-out” has become a suitcase word that only corresponds to 10% of new forms of suffering at work, and that, on or hand, “affects on professional places have become a major issue”.
“At first, my colleagues were very hostile,” says Danièle-Ufer. I thought, “Well, I’m not here to make friends.” But I’m sensitive. One does not have to have affinities with colleagues, but courteous relationships, yes. We need a minimum of humanity. “A lot of people get out of cynicism, I think it’s terrible.”
“Today’s company seeks to manage emotions, especially by creating” spaces of friendliness “or” Team building “evenings”
Philippe Zawieja confirms: The company of today seeks to manage emotions, in particular by creating “spaces of conviviality” or “Team building” evenings, but this protocol of emotional life is used to demonstrate only one thing: Large organizations are afraid of human matter, and this is quite logical; They are in constant demand for rationalization. ‘
Anticipating, quantifying, measuring objectives and reaching m, by passing first order of managerial priorities, rejects in shadows anything that can slow down processes: time of reflection, criticism if necessary to move things forward.
But re are worse: all kinds of paradoxical injunctions undermine career of professional attached to meaning of his work. “You are asked to be creative and at same time reject all ideas out of norm,” observes Philippe Zawieja. Or we repeat: be yourself … While bridle each of your personal initiatives. There is something to sabotage, after a while … “or sabotage ors.”
For Danièle de Ufer, it is reflection of too much of a neighbor’s office, one morning in February, which has made everything wobble:
“It was cold.” I asked her if I could turn on heating, she writes. She yelled, “Don’t talk to me.” Stunned, I asked him what took him. She jappé: “Don’t talk to me, I don’t want to hear you, I have work.” The journalist, as she recounts this event years later, considers that this colleague, herself in loss of a professional mission, was brutally abolished an essential task of her position-she had simply turned into ” “Walking bomb.”
When emotional and simply relational needs of some are denied, it is whole structure that suffers.
