Are Your Employees Juicing?
By: Mick, March 20th, 2007
The biggest ongoing story in professional sports in the last five years has been the “revelation” that performance-enhancing drug use is widespread among all major sports and that detecting and/or preventing that use is going to be very difficult, if not impossible. An article in the most recent ESPN the Magazine introduces the concept that perhaps we shouldn’t care whether or not athletes are using performance enhancing drugs. Even before reading this article, I was in the camp of those that really don’t care. Performance enhancing drugs have been a part of sports for decades in some form or another. But I digress…
The most interesting part of the article to me was the following:
A Wall Street stockbroker can get jacked up on cocaine before he hits the trading room floor, yet nobody questions his bottom line. It’s entirely possible that you take 10mg of Ambien the night before a big day at the office, and then drink 32 ounces of coffee when you wake up (possibly along with a mind-sharpening cigarette).
The purpose of the above illustrations is to point out that people in all walks of life are consuming “performance-enhancing” drugs on a daily basis. And without getting into the health and lifestyle ramifications of these examples, it was a bit of an eye-opener (pardon the pun) for me to look at the stereotypical office coffeeheads as junkies of sorts.
We all know people that are basically useless without a cup or three of coffee in the morning and at various points throughout the day. Many of us are those people. I definitely have my days where a nice cup of coffee can help me produce on a level that I don’t believe I could have otherwise. I think most of us do, but that shouldn’t be a crime, should it?
Tags: career advancement, coffee in the office, office motivation, work habits
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