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Quiz: Take Your Temperature

Is your temperature rising? What kind of situations are you facing that are boiling the cool out of you? On a scale of 1-5 (as indicated below), please respond to the following statements to take your temperature.
Disagree is 1 to Agree is 5
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I dread going to work, but I’m vested so until I win the lottery, I have to work.
Its amazing how one person can make so many people miserable.
They (the leadership) are trying to change too much too fast, its like they’re panicking.
My manager is just impossible to please.
If my personal friends saw me at work, they wouldn’t recognize me - I’m different at work.
My life is passing me by while I’m at work.
I don’t even try to address ways to improve things around here anymore; nothing ever changes.
It bums me out I never have time to (fill in with something that fulfills you).
Genuineness has been consumed by "political correctness."
I keep to myself, you can’t trust anyone around here.
It feels like there is a hidden agenda. What management says and what they do don’t add up.
I never dreamed I’d be doing this for so long.
I’m not fooled by what goes on here, I see what they’re doing, and some of it is just not right.
I often feel tired and annoyed.
I am expected to support points of view or actions that don’t feel right.
It seems someone else is resigning every week.
I hear myself saying things, or doing things I have despised in others, like I’m turning into one of "them."
I live for the weekends and days off.
I don’t have time to take care of myself; I’ve gotten out of shape.
I’m tired of hearing myself complain about my job.
It kills me to think I’m on this planet to (fill in your job description).
I am often anxious about certain individuals at work, they’re driving me crazy.
I constantly trade off time with family and friends for work stuff, and I’ve had it!
I have perfected my fake laugh.
I’m just doing this for the paycheck.
More and more is expected of me with no recognition or payoff.
I have a hard time focusing and doing my tasks.
I find people are often rude and ungrateful.
I’m just chasing my tail, not going anywhere.
Nobody understands how much pressure I’m under.
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Your Score (0 statements out of 30).
If you scored:
0 - 50You're cool man!
51 -70You are running a fever.
71-100You're boiling! And that's not cool.
Over 100BOILING OVER!
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