We are studying professionalism in our jobs. So I am wondering how does one throw a professional temper tantrum. I always seem to get it wrong. Should one cuss more or yell louder until one gets their way? Or does yelling and cussing make the temper tantrum less effective?

We should ask Mel Gibson.

From observing temper tantrums I have learned it is good to lay on one's back and just kick your legs and arms. Then just scream until you feel better.

Mel Gibson. Cool guy.

My job requires me to have them,cause when your supervising grown men on a jobsite egos can get out of control.Especially around crunch time.

I have been studying the cock roach. Evidently you need to lay on your back and just kick your arms and legs and scream until you feel better.

Throwing a temper tantrum at work will not get one anywhere. It will only show that they can not handle stress or the job they have been entitled to have. It is the ones that are calm and can get throught the situation that is admired. Not the little kid that can't handle what life throws at them...

To show one is a true professional, incorporate the head bang as well. With out helmet shows you are a journeyman and should be treated with the respect Offered up to one of such prestige.

I've witnessed everything from the head toss + stomping away - to actual loud lecturing - followed by muttering under the breath

never had one myself, at work anyway - I 've whispered the f word in a good friend's ear once or twice tho

Oh No, Say it ain't so . NOT the "F" word !

So true. I really admired peace.

If you see a Roach doing that,it's usually on account of too big a dose of BAYGON!

Yeah, that's it. He's a cool guy. Test out his way of having temper tantrums and see if people think you're cool.

What I really admired about the nurse was not only can she dish it out but she can take it as well. We have mutual respect for each other. That kind of quality has always impressed me and I admire it in a supervisor. We all know at work not to irritate the queen bee or otherwise the whole hive will sting you.

Blowing your top at work WILL yield positive results when applied properly.....Dogs understand...sometimes you gotta raise your voice to get your point across.


The amatures who scream and throw schitt around only embarrass themselves and lose ground with me.

I am more the kind of guy to quietly say "Do your f**kin job or I will put you through the wall with a forklift". I get excellent results.

I always make nice with them afterwards. My guys know that I only threaten them when they are not earning thier pay and other people are having to pull thier dead weight.

Try being a woman, supervising grown men on a job...talk about egos!!s

OOOOOOH now this is one that I know quite a bit about. So where to start. OKAY! My first Chef/mentor..he was teaching me some of his sauces. I make great sauces and I owe it to him. If they weren't perfect he would dump the sauce on me and throw the pan across the kitchen. Or just launch the pan across the kitchen. Chefs and kitchens can get rather intense. More so with the old school chefs not so much the new chefs. But he did it because he expected perfection for me and would not settle for anything less because the patrons who are paying to eat our food only deserves perfection.

Then we have my third chef/mentor. He was mentored by Chef Rubuchon. He would get in my face yell until he was red and spitting while I was cooking. It helped me believe it or not. It helped me stay focused when chaos around me is erupting, and again taught me that patrons deserve perfection.

I have worked with countless great chefs that did temper tantrums and it was because I was not living up to my potential. In the kitchen it is used as a motivator.

We as a people are never perfect but because of these chefs and their professional temper tantrums, my food is perfect, my plating is perfect. Now if you ask me if I would ever do this to those I train, teach and motivate. No. That kind of motivation is old school and not needed. I have trained line cooks that have gone onto becoming great chefs and I have done it without throwing temper tantrums but still maintaining the intensity, and the passion needed to run a kitchen.

Thou shalt observe children, the type of ages most adroit at turning tantrums into realized positive gain.

One tantrum is usually good enough to earn a chocolate bar, an ice cream, or a hockey team (in richer families).

I threw a tantrum, and I get thrown into jail. In my city causing a public neussaince is a crime.

But I still do tantric tantrums. It feels so good, that it's still worth it vis-a-vis the twenty one day jail sentence.

I would kind of think the ultimate work tantrum is to fire someone since it seems like if you hare well you are the one who failed as well as the bad employee.