The CBC – 3 times more stressful than serving in Afghanistan;
According to a 2005 “wellness” survey of 4,630 CBC staff — which has only now been made public, thanks to an Access to Information request — 44% of CBC staff display symptoms of high-level psychological distress. And in 9 cases out of 10, that distress was reported as work-related.
I probably shouldn’t have posted about this. Keith Boag will be putting in for danger pay.
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I guess that’s what happens when your job is lying to people everyday.
I hope their brains rot.
This has to be a result of guilt, fear and frustration, not to mention that if you get to do it on the right office sofa, you don’t get a promotion.
I hope their brains rot.
Consider what a blow we could strike against mental illness if we shut down the CBC.
I still hope their brains rot.
Yep Canada has to manufacture “White Pride” to appease the perpetually offended. What a country when JEWISH Religious Organizations are allowed to act as a Lobby Group but gets tax free status, or so I assume. Strip both BB and CJC of their religious status and slap them with Lobbyest Status, because that’s what they’ve become.
The shine from Mansbridge’s buffed chrome dome makes me wonder whether I’m over hill or Over-Dale.
Is it because working for the CBC is likely to induce “high-level psychological distress”, or is it because the sorts of people are likely to work for the CBC are more strongly correlated with the sorts of people who are likely to “display symptoms of high-level psychological distress”, legitimately or otherwise?
Leftist Atheists (many journalists are of this type) must suffer from more stress since they lack a coherent worldview to ground them when the tragic in life comes calling. Communities where self-fulfillment and self-ambition are the primary goals, it is likely that many of these folks are lonely. Perhaps loneliness is not the right phrase, these journalists are bereft of any real human community. Combined with a lack of a coherent cosmic story (religion), it is likely that these people would experience greater stress than soldiers in Afghanistan, even though the situation is less dangerous at the CBC. Soldiers often live in communities of mutual sacrifice and are steeped in a purposeful coherent narrative (serving one’s country). I would also guess that soldiers are more likely to be religious and therefore have a broader story to draw upon when facing the horrors of life. ie Jesus is Lord
I think this story of widespread anxiety is yet another example of how secular humanism is not so human after all. It just does not work since it does not answer the deepest human needs nor provide a foundation for engagement within a troubled world. Christianity does, which is why it continues to thrive even in the face of its cultural despisers.
These journalists should consider dumping the Employee Assistance Program and start attending Mass. In time, they will discover that many of their anxieties were baseless and that there is a storehouse of spiritual resources from which they can better effect their vocation as journalists.
Peace.
so it costs us $Billion to fund CBC and now we will pay for all the extended health care and paid time off work.
The CBC . . . just keeps on taking and taking.
Kill it off. Utterly useless. Total waste of taxpayers money.
You think it is easy pumping out left-lib socialist propoganda year after year?
They don’t even believe that shit they are writing, but they have to pretend. Live a life of a phoney tool for the socialist, and you are going to end up in a straight jacket when the reality sinks in.
Dictionary: cognitive dissonance:
Quote “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously
In general: psychological theory of human behavior. The theory suggests that conflicts between behavior and beliefs create a sense of discomfort, or cognitive dissonance, that the individual subconsciously attempts to eliminate by modifying his or her beliefs. For example, a man who believes in nonviolence may strike someone in anger. The theory states that the man will either modify his beliefs about nonviolence to justify the violent behavior or will believe his action to be something other than violence. He may convince himself that he was acting out of instinct or self-protection rather than a desire to inflict harm, or that the provocation was so extreme that even a nonviolent person like himself would have no choice but to respond. Individuals often seek reassurance from external sources that their behavior is not in conflict with their beliefs. Nazi war criminals defended their actions to themselves and others by claiming they were “only following orders” and were not responsible for behavior that was in conflict with social mores.”Unquote
Would journalists at the CBC who claim to believe in truth be feeling guilty about lying? Might they feel some conflict as they claim to be unbiased yet shamelessly shill for the liberals and the left?
Could limousine liberals who claim to believe in socialism and equality feel guilty about having their nose in the trough at the elitist CBC?
This would assume that they have some sort of conscience of course.
The whole left should be suffering from this, look no further than their stances on multiculturalism and Islam or their professed belief in womans rights and their opposition to the Afghan mission.
Their might be a minimum level of intelligence required to suffer from cognitive dissonance.
Or not.
This (if true) may fall under what used to be known as the “wages of sin”. What goes around, comes around.
You do stuff you know isn’t right and take money for it, keep doing that long enough and the net result is “high-level psychological distress”. That’s the coming around part.
Burn them liver cells, baby.
Don Uthole
read Vitruvius’ post, me thinks the problem lies in the type of peronality that would lower themselves to work and stay in such an environment. Though it has been shown that there appears to be a benefit to a belief system (such as religion), it does not necessarily equate to an absolute, it to may just appear to be so, but is grounded in personality type as well. So, please. try keeping your sermon for a trip to church, as us atheists will come to your church if we want to hear it!!!!!
vitruvius – couldn’t the question more accurately be stated as, ‘the type of person willing to work for the CBC induces a work-environment conducive to both the experience and expression of high-level psychological distress’.
don uthole – I’m an atheist – and the definition of an atheist is not someone focused on self-ambition (and what’s wrong with that anyway?); it does not mean any lack of a coherent world-view; it does not include any rejection of community. All it means is that the individual rejects that god(s) exist. Kindly get your theories straight.
Agree – End the CBC. It induces, in many viewers, high level psychological distress.
Maybe it’s the stress of having to spin Afghan developments that’s doing them in.
Mark
Ottawa
“Working at the CBC messes with your brain.”
Watching the CBC messes with the brain. I figured out how to block channels on my
TV awhile back when on the rare occasion, I do watch television or network news.
Perhaps a study of loyal CBC viewers and the overall “wellness” factor after prolonged exposure might prove interesting.
Like most mainstream news and entertainment organizations, the CBC is a political rat’s nest. Add to that the scheming and goldbricking that goes with a thoroughly unionized environment and you’ve got a prescription for pure, unalloyed tension in the workplace. I have many friends who’ve worked there, and the story is always the same.
We must save these poor souls!
Shut down the CBC.
Oh the Humanity!
That’s what happens when you’re part of an news organization that is one huge ass lie — proffering op-ed as objective fact-based reporting.
Privatize the thing. Top to bottom. The whole friggin’ mess.
Could we have a reverse telethon to save Peter Mansbridge from this living hell?
I pledge to not give any more of my tax dollars to the CBC.
How much do you pledge not to give?
Ring those phones!
Quit giving till it doesn’t hurt.
The problem is elementary to repair, simply trade all “staff” currently serving in Afghanistan with the “staff” in Ottawa at the CBC.
too easy.
whining crap sacks.
for more help on how to stop whining before the onset of adolescence, see this:
http://childparenting.about.com/cs/behaviorproblems/a/whining.htm
there is reason to believe this behavior modification will succeed at the CBC as well.
Sress? Dodging the truth can be extremely stressful, however not anywhere as stressful as re-arranging the government of Canada on a daily basis. Tough luck guys!!
Is it because working for the CBC is likely to induce “high-level psychological distress”, or is it because the sorts of people are likely to work for the CBC are more strongly correlated with the sorts of people who are likely to “display symptoms of high-level psychological distress”, legitimately or otherwise?
Posted by: Vitruvius at August 4, 2008 8:51 PM
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Bullseye.
These are the kind of people who think of themselves as progressive at the same time as they viciously use every tax paid means at their disposal to oppose the liberation of the oppressed in Iraq.
Being ignorant left-nuts is almost a condition of employment.
Have you no compassion? The stress of slaving away, day in day out, to produce a product no one wants, with no threat of job loss ever, would break even the strongest of us.
How frustrating it must be to know how the world should work but people just won’t do as you want?
mental disorders , no doubt , CBCPravda , All Khadr All the Time.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/04/khadr-motions.html
this is the CBC’s 2200 story on the first family of terrorism in Canada. one really wonders about hidden agendas in Canadas publicly funded left minded POShit news agency.
Yeah, I once worked for the federal government. I figured out very early on that you feel nothing but contempt for people who overpay you and expect very little from you. ‘Doesn’t matter how good you are, nothing changes. ‘Doesn’t matter how inept you are, nothing changes.
Kathryn puts it very well: The stress of slaving away, day in day out, to produce a product no one wants, with no threat of job loss ever, would break even the strongest of us.
I decided to leave…’best thing I ever did. Now I’m poor but happy!!
Let’s not forget the stress of not knowing if you will be the next bimbo to be picked as Governor General or if indeed the liberals might not get elected and the GG could be picked on merit instead of sheer boot licking ability.
“The report concluded by saying staff, regardless of their department, are at risk of poor recognition for their work, poor relations with supervisors, work overload, conflicts over who does what job, career instability and substandard communication within the company.”
Now, why am I not surprised?
If you work with a bunch of mental defectives, you become a mental defective.
The Lefties at the CBC are like all lefties. Afraid, frustrated, low self-esteem, angry, hateful and insecure. They have bought into the global warming horror show. They fight with the denial that we have real enemies, yet, they work hard to appease those enemies.
They are all nuts and those stats prove it.
I am with GYM in that atheism is not a problem. In most cases it’s a cure. It is possible and even very likely that not being subjected to the fear an guilt and fear of religion is a better way to live.
I have noted that most of the criminals in jails are big believers. Not many atheist in jail. Why is that? Atheist are more grounded? More self-reliant, more confident, less fearful, less guilty, smarter, more courageous?
Religion for some is good, but most it’s a burden. Who needs that?
Lefties give atheist a bad name. I hate that.
Ayn Rand was atheist because she simply know better than to believe in magic and the supernatural. That’s where I drop my hat.
Geez, John V, you’re really striving to make a connection here. How does the fact that the CBC is staffed mostly by secularists – rugged, self-reliant atheists, in your self-regarding estimation – swaure with your worldview?
Howzabout just saying some assholes believe in God, some don’t? You’re going to drive yourself nuts trying to justify the whole world in your own image – an act of autodeism that atheists seem all to prone to, from what I’ve seen.
Ok, I have another question. Could it be that the “44% of CBC staff [who] display symptoms of high-level psychological distress” aren’t the problem, it’s the 56% who don’t that are actually the problem? Hey, don’t ask me, all I’m doin’ here is askin’ questions.
“square with your worldview.”
I’ve got to reread what I write.
Without the CBC , Who would speak for the abundant foam at the mouth tree huggers,Gore, suzuky,the anti-smoking/drinking/obese/anti-seal/anti-everything citizens.The two health nuts on “Body break” would actually have to find a job.The demise of the CBC could actually turn this country back to normal status and then what would happen to all the awards we win every year showing how we are leaders in progessive societies ?Could we really handle a country where people mind their own business and not everyone knows what is best for everyone else ? Is this the Canada we want ? We should all send letters stating how appreciated these poor overstressed employees are.
I tend to think it is a pre-existing condition that leads to this kind of work related stress. It’s not the work, it is the strain of trying to fit every event through the same filter even when the evidence is overwhelming that the filter is wrong.
During a life time all I have ever heard was how bad off the CBC was. How they where suffering from a lack of monies. People would lose jobs . Yak, yak, yak. Now its the employee’s. Enough already. With them its always about money with never enough to foul the air waves with there distorted crap.
No one watches it ! Especially Canadians. How do I know? Most people give money willingly to PBS, in Alberta at least. You should see the donations on the money drives from here. We pay for most of the programming they buy in Spokane. If the CBC where Air America , they would have died ages ago without political largesse which is its main problem! As is its journalists & others own political agendas with a Senate seat prize as the carrot.
I bet you dollars to donuts there are true believers there, but hey, some folks think eating a dead relatives brain is a good idea.
maybe this has something to do with fallout from AGW being exposed. Time for a new scam to get that old work-religious fervor back!
It could be said that the quality of the 44% of the employees is actually what the CBC is looking for.
As Key said, “CBC’s left-wing anti-American political orientation is the product of mental instability among the Ceeb’s senior managers.”
Then we can say that it is likely that the 56% of the more resilient employees of the CBC is actually an error in the hiring practices of the government run outfit.
Stress!?! These overpaid, underworked cretins wouldn’t know stress if it bit them in the gonads.
They should get a real job if they want to cry stress. How about trying to corral a 250 lb. lunatic when using a gun or taser for assistance is out of the question for fear of offending someone? How about assembling full-size 1/2 ton trucks when nobody wants to buy them anymore? How about dodging traffic with a large bus and a load of screaming kids? There are literally thousands of jobs that are capable of causing stress. I’m afraid that working for the CBC does not qualify.
Now if the majority of Canadian taxpayers had their say and decided to put an end to the giant leech known as the CBC, these whining employees would soon know the true meaning of stress as they applied online for EI benefits.
It’s called “contract negotiations”.
Us air traffic controllers regularly scream and yell at each other while thousands of people in metal cigars hurtle towards the same destination at 600 mph.
Do we think it’s stressful? Yeah, sometimes. But, those who do claim it’s really bad are either playing for sympathy or on a very short career arc.
The stress and illness level is a reflection of the union contract and the sick leave benefits including “stress” leave. It explains why in my entire medical career I’ve yet to meet a farmer or other self-employed worker suffering from fibromyalgia or needing to take “stress leave”. Or have I just led a sheltered existence?
No need to beat a dead horse (CBS) here, eh!
“maybe this has something to do with fallout from AGW being exposed” BINGO !!
Have a little sympathy folks:
Imagine having to spin daily that”Little Mosque on the Prairie” is an international hit?
Sell advertising opposite Oprah for those 2 gay boy’s afternoon talk show.
Listen to that screechy annoying morning host on CBC Calgary,the one with the megaphone cackle who only laughs at her own lame jokes-Suhana something.
Let’s not even mention babysitting George”the Hour” and his bong buddies.
And then there’s the stress of accepting that promotion with the al-Jezeera network where all your collegues are racing to.
It’s tough out there at Mother Corp.
Sorry,
Forgot about the mandatory moonlighting gig writing questions for dim-witted Liberal politicians.
That just might work…. eating themselves up from the inside.
DrDave and Yukon Gold are absolutely correct.
Set up a program to find and reward work related stress and you will find and reward work related stress! What do we expect?
Of course this is a very important principle in government. Set up a program that rewards the creation of hundreds of self governing nations within a single nation and that is what you will get. Set up a program that rewards people for getting hurt feelings by what someone says in meaningful dialogue and discourse, and that is what you will get. As a matter of fact, set up a prgram to do anything and you will get more of it. We have too many programs.
Must be 44% of the apparatchiks coming down with such malady’s as spinal deformation, from all the bending over backwards on behalf the Libs…
Somehow I don’t think that Don Cherry is in that group of 44% displaying symptoms of high-level psychological distress. Pissed at losing the hockey night in Canada theme maybe but stressed, never.
Say, maybe they could give their workers a $1000 bonus, it worked for the CWB.
biff jr.: These overpaid, underworked cretins wouldn’t know stress if it bit them in the gonads.
And that’s because they’re a bunch of entitled me-first, it’s-not-my-fault wankers. I’ll bet the world revolves around every one of the 44% of “stressed out” CBC employees–and the other 56%!! When someone looks at them sideways or asks them to do one little thing extra, I’ll bet they bristle and whine, “Why me?”
The other problem is that they don’t have a unifying principal to keep them motivated and on-task–only the lib-left manifesto which, when you get down to it, is to separate the world into tribes, you know? feminists vs. men and kids, gays vs. straights, lefties vs. the right, essentially US vs. THEM, and then divide and conquer. When that’s your modus operandi, you wouldn’t notice a unifying principal if it bit you in the face.
With no common purpose except to tear down what doesn’t fit the lib-left worldview, no wonder they’re floundering, sputtering, and falling down.
Prayer, I’ll tell ya’, is what they need. That, and a good, solid Christian community… 😉
Could it be the CBC spinners are stressed out because they fear a Conservative Majority?
It’s got to be a combination of that and trying to sell a spent force called the Liberal Party of Canada. Their security blanket is not so secure and cozy these days so desperation leads to stress which leads to going out of their freaking minds. We better keep an eye out for stress leave becoming rampant and costing us big bucks. They don’t realize they work for all of us, not just Liberals.
they can always join Avi Lewis over at Al Jezera.they have put out the welcome mat for anti US lefties. with CBCpravda training and mental problems they ought have a lock down on the jobs.