Snapped

What is your breaking point? How much can one person take?

"People snap when their ability to cope is overwhelmed." But how much stress or frustration people can cope with?"For some, minor stressors add up," producing a "hassle factor". But for others, one overwhelming event can send a person over the edge.

Here are some workplace warnings but kkep in mind theses can be used in day to day lives as well:

1. Direct or veiled threats of harm;

2. Intimidating, belligerent, harassing, bullying, or other inappropriate and aggressive behavior;

3. Numerous conflicts with supervisors and other employees;

4. Bringing a weapon to the workplace, brandishing a weapon in the workplace, making inappropriate references to guns, or fascination with weapons;

5. Statements showing fascination with incidents of workplace violence, statements indicating approval of the use of violence to resolve a problem, or statements indicating identification with perpetrators of workplace homicides;

6. Statements indicating desperation (over family, financial, and other personal problems) to the point of contemplating suicide;

7. Drug/alcohol abuse; and

8. Extreme changes in behaviors.

Workplace bullying, harassment and discrimination are the biggest contributors to employee stress and the potential for an employee to snap.