The workplace is another typical area where we can feel enslaved, manipulated or controlled. Bosses and employers usually believe that people under their control lose all their rights automatically to transform into objects. If this is your case, it is possible that you feel manipulated at work or even intimidated by supervisors or due to ordinances and internal regulations.

It is even possible that you hate your professional occupation and that you considered yourself a victim just because you have to spend eight hours daily carrying it out. Perhaps you are been forced to remain far from your family by means of your labor commitments. Perhaps you should behave in a way that you don’t like and think about the possibility to choose a different work with different conditions.

The excessive loyalty to work based on giving up such things as the personal freedom and the personal responsibilities, creates an enormous breach of oppression in job situations. If your expectations at work are frustrated or reduced, if you consider yourself frustrated by your job’s position and your responsibilities, take a time to wonder what are you doing in a work that abuses you as a person. Think for a moment if you are driving things in the best possible way and if you feel comfortable playing the role that you are representing.

There is a series of ethical deeply ingrained myths that conspire to tyrannize you at work. One of them is the believing that whatever happens, we have to cling to the work that we are carrying out. Another is the myth of the vocational immaturity in those that change employment regularly. It is certain that circumstances exist when we have to remain doing a specific work due to the prevailing conditions. Be attentive to the appearance of illogical beliefs that once accepted they can drive you right to the victim's condition in the area of work.

We should give ourselves our place with bosses, supervisors and partners that perhaps are inconsiderate. Putting up with a boss you don’t like in order to maintain the work, can be a great challenge. To have a boss or supervisor who doesn't have abrupt changes of temperament is a great blessing. But not all of us have that luck. Most of the time we need certain adaptation to them in order to be able to save the work. To know how to act when the boss displays an insulting behavior may be crucial if you hate to be moving from one job to another to finally realize that the current supervisor is not much better than the previous one.

When we have to deal with some boss that can transform his employees’ life into hell while being in a bad mood, try learning how to block your mind and not to pay attention to his insulting comments. The most important thing is not to take things personally. Just don't think: 'What have I done to deserve this?', 'Why does he disrespect me so much?’ Almost sure that there is nothing wrong with you. There is much wrong with him that thinks, as is demonstrating that he is entitled to be temperamental and careless about how his actions and words make other people feel. Something that we could do in a situation where your boss mistreats you is to play the fool a little and to say something like: 'Excuse me; I missed the second part of what you just said.' Never show that your feelings have been hurt. Instead, look at him and pretend to be puzzled and confused to make him feel uncomfortable. Nevertheless, if things get really unbearable and you feel that there is more than you can take, tell him all you think about him, find another job and get out of there.