Surveys… You can do them, but they are often annoying. Especially if they don’t bring anything.
Today I came across another survey asking how I feel about certain things when it comes to stressful situations in the workplace / traffic jams. Among other things, they asked about aromatherapy, telling jokes via the car’s computer, or even turning on the air conditioning. I really don’t understand what the point of that nonsense is. ## Traffic Jam = Stress? We all have delivery deadlines. Nothing changes about that. It can quickly turn into stress if you don’t make it on time. I can only speak for myself, but for me, it’s just short-term stress that disappears by the time I’ve informed certain people that I can’t meet the deadline for certain reasons.
As we used to say in the Bundeswehr: Reporting makes you free and burdens the superior.
After that, the topic is off my mind, because I can’t do anything more than drive, and I have no influence on the traffic. Sure, loitering is also not advisable, but that’s not stress in the sense that I can’t concentrate on my work anymore.
Yet in today’s survey, which also comes from the Fraunhofer Institute, such things as aromatherapy were asked. Or that the air conditioning should be turned on, maybe a joke told, or a concentration exercise done.
The main topic of the survey is traffic jams. They assume that because of a traffic jam, which the driver can’t influence, you get into trouble with your boss. Yes, there are companies where this is still the case in today’s time. There are types of employers who like to see themselves as the lion in the jungle.
But honestly, traffic jams are annoying, but not stressful. I experience other things as stress. And even without stress, I definitely don’t want to be quizzed by my truck. Voice control is completely fine, but then I speak, get at most an acoustic confirmation, and then it’s done. But that a AI tells me a joke, intoxicates me with various scents? Even though smoking is now legal, … NO, THANK YOU!
We have other problems in our job that urgently need to be changed, but certainly not the things presented in this survey .
P.S.: April Fools’ Day was already…
