Stress has become an meaningful part of business life. It comes nowadays with the normal package of any employee arriving in a company.

You could get stressed for many reasons : The clients shortened the planning of your project in the last moment possible. You have been announced that there will be lays offs in your departement. A powerful virus is sending hardcore sexually explicit emails to all your contact list. The copy machine is out of order because someone stuck half a ton of toilet paper into it. Or just because your boss is having a headache and he knows you ate his last aspirin.

Contrary to what is usually said in books, you can't avoid stress, you can't neither "handle" it or turn it into something positive.

The only thing you can do is to push it up to someone else. Yep.

Stress is physiological process inherited of the time we lived in caverns wearing beast's furs instead of grey suits and ties. The aim of stress is to help us fight against any incoming danger. So, needless to say, you won't get rid of it unless you swap from the prey's role to the hunter's one.

If you have a mananing position or an acknowledge leader status, it would be an easy job. Just jump on one of your collegue's desk and scream orders like hell. You will immediatly feel better. Another solution is to bite his leg first, then bark like a rabid wolf.

If you can't claim a hierarchically superior position, It will be harder.

But, use your imagination, there is plenty of ways to stress someone. Here is a few things you can do :

- Make a silly phonecall to HR manager pretending to be Samuel (the best engineer in the place, the one your company can't afford to lose) and threatening him to quit if you don't get a raspberry pie brought to you at once.

- Go ask your boss if he knows about the missing files in the accounting departement.

- Cut the power in the main meeting room during the shareholder's annual congress, and then lock everyone in.

- Ask your office's neighbour to come and keep and eye on the installation of a new software. You have been called in the big boss' office urgently to answer a few technical questions asked by a V.I.P. You can't let your PC without supervision but you promise you won't be long. As soon as he agrees, take advantage of him watching your screen to launch a full reinstallation of the operating system of HIS computer, including the whole formating of the datas.