Trying to Take Responsibility for Others

It is impossible to take responsibility for other people, but many people feel this way if they have grown up with low emotional intelligence. They know that they have an impact on the lives of other people, and since they cannot impact their own lives, they seek to gain control or at least a feeling of control over others. When this happens, they feel temporarily satisfied, but the feeling does not stick. Unfortunately, this is the way that low emotional maturity can be passed down from generation to generation, and from boss to employee. Intolerance and the inability to handle life is one of the crowning achievements of insufficient emotional strength or knowledge.

When you feel yourself wishing to take responsibility for another, or when you feel yourself taking on their own stuff, you are crossing a line. It is reasonable. You have never really been taught where the line is. However, you must learn where it is and you cannot learn where it is by constantly overstepping it or by always being afraid of offending someone.

Fortunately, businesses throughout Australia have company policies, where they delineate appropriate and inappropriate behavior among employees, even with regard to one another. This is an encouraging thought, since it means that you will be able to keep your job without being way too careful and without blowing up in anger at someone else. Part of company policy is implementing workplace drug testing laws where applicable, and just plain old drug screening and your average alcohol testing to fill in the gaps. You see, drug and alcohol testing is part of a widespread movement which is designed to keep company assets within companies, and to keep employee safety around employees. It also protects companies from being sued by their employees if someone is fired and they bring a lawsuit against the business for unfair termination of employment. Onsite drug & alcohol testing can assist in ensuring that your business is fully aware of what is going on, and that you employees are, too.

This article has been taken from http://mediscreen.net.au/articles/?p=1859