Archetypes in Business

Whether we like or not, we all personify different archetypes of the human nature while at work and at home. This means that we all go through various positive and negative traits of archetypes like The Old Crone and the Wise Old Man, the Whore, the Harvester, the Man Child, the Generous Friend, the Weak One, and the Ambitious One. These are just a few of the many archetypes which are available, and each of these archetypes personifies both positive and negative traits, either of which a person can show in their behavior.

Archetypes in business are just as prevalent as archetypes in the home or among friends. In many cases, there are certain people who personify certain roles in the company, but people change and develop different archetypes over time or under different circumstances. Under pressure or during stress, someone can switch from one archetype to another. Many people find that they personify separate archetypes in the office and among their children. Also, archetypes become more valid the more in tune with your typology you are.

Unfortunately, when people show negative sides of individual archetypes, they are often doing so because they are in some sort of pain, either physically or psychologically. This means that, whether they like it or not, people can end up abusing substances because they are not addressing this pain appropriately. Drug abuse and alcohol abuse are both, indeed, signs of people who are not properly addressing pain which they have. While there are many solutions to these problems, I think we can all agree that substance abuse is never one of them.

Workplace drug testing exists to help you identify which of these employees may be abusing substance on your own jobsite. Onsite drug & alcohol testing is meant to help you do this in a cost effective way, onsite testing being one of the premier money saving strategies for many businesses throughout Australia. The result is that workplace drug testing laws are not needed for every industry of business, since companies everywhere are taking advantage of employee drug screening. Mediscreen provides this onsite drug screening, and we do so in a clean, professional manner.

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Mediscreen and Work Ethics

Work ethics are not a problem for those of us who are well grounded with personal ethics, and who try not to step outside of society’s boundaries for appropriate personal behavior. After all, no one really wants to be so unacceptable to the masses that they cannot form close, loving bonds with friends and family. Work ethics comprise a huge part of what makes us work together efficiently. What are we supposed to do if everyone, instead of working together for the good of the whole company, just went our own way and formed our own agenda having to do with the work pieces, the projects, how to handle the clients, and how to deal with inner office squabbles? I mean, that’s a pretty disorganised system to find yourself in, and it means that you will not have nearly as much success overall. Now, take that same data and apply it to workplace drug testing laws. Alcohol testing and drug testing in Australia may not be required in your industry, but it is still a part of making your company a working whole.

Drug & alcohol testing is available through Mediscreen. We believe in helping you keep your work ethics strong, and we know that not every employee has the interest of the whole in mind when they decide to abuse substances on the worksite. The entire thing must be handled properly by your company, and this is where Mediscreen comes in. We provide onsite drug & alcohol testing to businesses all over Australia, and this means every single part of your company, no matter where it is located in this great country of ours. Work ethics much be upheld, not just by the whole, but by individual employees. With this in mind, Mediscreen provides these onsite services so that your workers can be tested right there in their place of employment. This is all not to mention the fact that it will cost you a lot less to have your employees take time off and actually be tested in a laboratory where you would be paying the overhead costs, anyway. It’s time for work ethics to be more active. 

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Healing from Old Addiction

After interviewing several recovering drug and alcohol addicts, I found them to have one thing in common: after choosing to clean out their lives, they had to start over from scratch. This did not mean necessarily that they had to find a new job and new relatives. Rather, it meant that their experience and knowledge of life had to be reformed, rather like they were children or babies inside of an adult’s body. There were of course many memories, but the reasoning part of the brain, the part that especially identifies who is what and what makes an identity whole again was gone.

Many friends and family members of addicts see their loves ones becoming less and less like themselves as they fall into their substance abuse. This is because as the substance abuse grows stronger, their identities are essentially being washed away. While, yes, many addicts retain old characteristics, the fullness of the character and depth of the person in their right mind has been diluted. This dilution continues until the individual is no longer the same person as they were before.

This means that, even after addiction has occurred and been recovered from, the individual will never have the same personality, same characteristic, or the same nature that they had in the past. Even if they come out of their addiction and build a whole new life for themselves, they must still rebuild their own personalities. That is quite difficult enough, to begin with. However, the real point is that they are never the same person as they were before the abuse. They are almost a completely different individual, with the same body, perhaps, but not the same mind.

As you see, drug abuse and alcoholism are dangerous problems to have and to behold. Workplace drug testing and alcohol testing were originated to help companies identify who is falling under this cloud, and who is able to maintain their own lives, addiction free. The end result is that onsite drug screening is needed by businesses all over Australia. 

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Don’t be Overwhelming

Do you have a forceful personality which does its own share of the work when it comes to convincing, persuading and sometimes bullying others? Force of will is a powerful tool to have, but it should be noted that you should not use this tool for anything but its intended purpose.

The truth is, no matter how resilient or tough someone is, they can still only handle so much information, before they become overwhelmed and literally have to stop listening in order to handle the overload. Unfortunately, this often occurs between a talkative woman and a listening man, and so therefore there are some unfortunate stereotypes about a man’s ability to listen, which are, I might add, not very true.

We come back to the subject at hand. You can easily avoid overwhelming people. The trick is to understand at what point your audience shuts down, and this is will different for every person. Every good English teacher will discuss the merits of keeping your thoughts and writing short, simple and clean. If you are familiar with the writings of Ernest Hemingway, then think of his example. If it cannot be said in a short, easy to understand statement, then cut out all of the fluff until it can be said that way. This may mean speaking less, thinking more, being very concise, and very blunt, at times.

Now that we’ve discussed how you can avoid overwhelming others, think of ways in which you can prevent your employees from being easily overwhelmed. On average, workers who are abusing drugs or alcohol are very easily overwhelmed because they cannot handle life. They cannot handle the simplest of lives that you or I would find quite easy because they have programmed their minds into needing comfort, rather than rising strong to overcome obstacles. This means that any substance abuse they engage in will only make this problem worse.

Help keep your workplace safe and emotion free by regularly implementing workplace drug testing to identify any employees who are bringing this unacceptable behavior to a professional worksite. To get more information. 

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Chivalry’s Last Stand

Workplace drug testing entered into our business marketplace about three decades ago, but it made itself known plainly and easily. Workplace drug testing begins with the employee, giving a fair and accurate assessment of their positive or negative test results. Then, it delivers this data, in scientific form, to the employer, showing that anyone can deliver quality, professional results if they follow this system.

So, why is drug screening necessary today, when it wasn’t so forty years ago?

The reason has to do with reputation. Now that we have laws governing even such things as reputation, men and women are not able to organically make judgments about and against each other as they once did. Now, reputations, while they may be clear, cannot be used to deny someone employment. More scientific reasons must be procured and presented.

This is why employee alcohol testing and drug screening are in place.

The test results deliver unbiased answers. They tell us what we want to know, and they do so without judging or condemning or anything else which can be pointed at and be accused of being slander.

Employees must actually show up and be professional. They do not have the option of getting away with drinking, binging, and drug addiction, as long their behavior is good enough when the foreman or boss is looking. No, they have to actually BE clean, not just act like they are. Furthermore, employees who wish to protest their termination of employment will not be able to argue with the drug screening results.

Has chivalry taken its last stand? Are there any people who use judgment and reputation anymore? Yes, there are quite a few. In this day and age, however, legal protection must be provided by scientific results. And for that reason, onsite drug and alcohol testing is the answer.

Chivalry is not dead. Professional behavior and social elegance still are inextricably interlinked. Men and women still are able to show each other respect and decorum. However, when it comes to the truth, legal certainty must be obtained. 

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Believing in Good Things

Good things come your way when you are always expecting them. Of course, it can be difficult to expect them when things like bills are being left unpaid, you have problems with your relationships at home, you are physically or mentally exhausted, or you simply don’t trust the people with whom you work. Expecting good things becomes even more difficult when the distrust of your coworkers becomes really founded on actually irresponsible behavior. Naturally, you want to do something about it, but you can over time become more and more angry and bitter. This means that you must strive to protect yourself, not only from the incompetency of your coworkers, but also from the angry bitterness which may rear its ugly head at the least expected and least appropriate times. To this end, we recommend that you use our onsite drug and alcohol screening services in order to help your company control the unproductive aspects of the business, as well as to help you control your own temper when things seem to really be getting out of hand. After all, people should take responsibility for their actions.

Fortunately, Mediscreen provides a service that few other companies can boast as proudly of. You see, we really bring an attitude of careful attention to detail and of quality professionalism to your workplace. By allowing a drug screening company within the walls of your workplace, you are defining the space not as a home away from home, but as a professional environment which enables people to do their best work, receive their best pay, and to go home with some measure of pride and self accomplishment under their belts. This means that everyone should be tested for both drugs and alcohol and that this procedure should be done on a regular basis in order to keep everyone on their toes if some people are more likely to stray over this boundary line than others. Quality standards must be kept, and people must retain some semblance of pride and dignity in their job. After all, what would it say if everyone, absolutely everyone, despised going in to work every day? Pride must be retained. 

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Good things come your way when you are always expecting them. Of course, it can be difficult to expect them when things like bills are being left unpaid, you have problems with your relationships at home, you are physically or mentally exhausted, or you simply don’t trust the people with whom you work. Expecting good things becomes even more difficult when the distrust of your coworkers becomes really founded on actually irresponsible behavior. Naturally, you want to do something about it, but you can over time become more and more angry and bitter. This means that you must strive to protect yourself, not only from the incompetency of your coworkers, but also from the angry bitterness which may rear its ugly head at the least expected and least appropriate times. To this end, we recommend that you use our onsite drug and alcohol screening services in order to help your company control the unproductive aspects of the business, as well as to help you control your own temper when things seem to really be getting out of hand. After all, people should take responsibility for their actions.

Fortunately, Mediscreen provides a service that few other companies can boast as proudly of. You see, we really bring an attitude of careful attention to detail and of quality professionalism to your workplace. By allowing a drug screening company within the walls of your workplace, you are defining the space not as a home away from home, but as a professional environment which enables people to do their best work, receive their best pay, and to go home with some measure of pride and self accomplishment under their belts. This means that everyone should be tested for both drugs and alcohol and that this procedure should be done on a regular basis in order to keep everyone on their toes if some people are more likely to stray over this boundary line than others. Quality standards must be kept, and people must retain some semblance of pride and dignity in their job. After all, what would it say if everyone, absolutely everyone, despised going in to work every day? Pride must be retained. 

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