< PreviousAnd finally The world of Frazer The sound of anger Ever heard something in the workplace that makes you irrationally angry? Now, we’re not talking about your workmates and their stupid opinions, or when someone tries to convince you the new Lion King CGI movie is better than the original. No, we’re talking about a little-known condition called misophonia. Apparently this is a condition 20% of people in the UK have and it causes you to become irrationally angry on hearing certain sounds. A recent study helped bring to light the condition and researchers are delving into why it happens, but it’s thought this might be a reason for some workplace issues as well as interpersonal ones. The only problem in Frazer’s eyes is that the examples given by the researchers included the sound of someone sipping tea, the sound of heavy breathing, and the sound of someone chewing food loudly. Now the first two Frazer will give you, but anyone who doesn’t feel immediate rage at someone chewing away with their mouth open in the workplace has, in Frazer’s humble opinion, much bigger problems than misophonia. Close your damn mouth! 50 Business Link www.blmforum.net We hardly knew her! I think everyone at this point will agree the government has been a bit of a crazy ride of late. There was an old interview in which Boris Johnson once said that when a conversation isn’t going your way you should put a dead dog on the table. The idea is to distract people with something shocking so they forget about whatever you did wrong that they were up in arms about. Well it seems that Liz Truss might have employed the same technique – albeit unintentionally – because a recent survey by Online Casinos of 2,000 adults in the UK asked their samples who the last PM before Rishi Sunak was, and 54% of those responding listed it as Boris Johnson, forgetting about our record-holding Liz Truss entirely! Given her record however, she might not be too unhappy about being forgotten. Sniff sweat to fight anxiety According to some eggheads who know a lot more about psychology than Frazer does, a study of people suffering from anxiety decided (as you do) to test whether their anxiety went up or down when sitting in a clean-smelling room as opposed to one laced with the sweat of other people. Frazer isn’t sure why this came to their minds – a practical joke, perhaps? Either way, the shocking results were that those in the rooms with the body odours reported a 39% reduction in anxiety when offered traditional treatments as opposed to those in the clean rooms who only reported a 17% reduction. Since we already need to fight stress in the workplace, this might be a solution we can put into practice, though I can’t help but think Peter Jones won’t be too amused when you take the pitch to him and squirt eau-de- sweaty-man in his face. © stock.adobe.com/ Andrey Popov © stock.adobe.com/moodboard © Simon Dawson / No10 Downing Street, OGL 50.qxp_Layout 1 03/04/2023 16:24 Page 1Printing|Copying|Graphic Design LOGOS | BRANDING | BUSINESS STATIONERY FLYERS & POSTERS | BROCHURES | NEWSLETTERS A0 COPYING & SCANNING | OS MAPPING CAD & PLAN PRINTING | PRINT FINISHING High Quality Print & Design in Lincolnshire N 01522 546118 E sales@lincolncopycentre.co.uk www.lincolncopycentre.co.uk 51.qxp_Layout 1 05/04/2023 15:08 Page 152.qxp_Layout 1 03/04/2023 16:25 Page 1Next >