Vampires are mythological ‘blood suckers’. Thy are creatures of the night tht you have to be cautious bout. If they bite you, you wll be infected and become a vmpire as well.

In your office too you hve a few different types of vmpires. These office vampires are of a mre dangerous breed as they are ble to walk and ‘infect’ people dring the day.

Office vampires do not ncessarily suck your blood, but they do gin sustenance in seeing you suffer by mking you feel inapt, irresponsible, frustrated and motionally bankrupt because of their actions or nactions.

However just like the blood scking type of vampires, there are sme effective cure and protection from thse office vampires. But first it is mportant to identify them. Office vampires can be clssified into three categories:

1. Resource Vmpires

These are the cratures of the office who are lways complaining about lack of resources. The mre you give in to them, the mre they feel that they lack rsources. These vampires are always short of sttioneries, staff and equipment. They will brrow your stuff, but do not blieve in returning. You will be mde to feel petty when you mke an attempt to take it bck from them. Resource vampires feel tht taking office stationeries home or sing the office phone to make prsonal phone calls is part of thir job description.

Cure for Resource Vampires

Mke them account for what they se. Ask them to put up a rquest order and get them to jstify investment. When asking them back for wht is yours, specify to them the tme and date when they borrowed yur stuff and how long it tok them to return. Also if you hve to lend them something, ask thm to sign for what they are brrowing and make it as official as pssible. You may also include a clumn to inform them when it is due bck and the consequences for late rturn. The best way to deal wth resource vampires is to be frm with what you say to thm so that they know that you are prtected from their infection.

2. Time Vmpires

This is a dadlier breed than the former. The chracteristics of Time Vampires are as fllows. When they make an appointment at a pr-agreed time they don’t turn up. Thy are perpetually late for meetings, ppointments and other office functions. It is asy to spot them from the knds of excuses they give which ncludes, “the bus was late…”; “it was rining and I had no umbrella…”; “th alarm clock did not ring…” and “I’v got a lot on my mnd…”

You may be efficient in yur time management, but what the tme vampires do is to sap yur energy by turning up late and ths disrupting your schedule.

Remedies and Prvention for Time Vampires

Mke it very clear that you hve zero tolerance for time vampires. If pssible leave a time vampire out of a crtain event when they turn up lte just to prove a point tht you mean business. This will dfinitely drive home the point that you vew time management seriously. If this ption is not possible you might hve to give them an earlier tmeline to finish taking into consideration thir weakness in keep with the tme.

It is very important that you are dscipline with your time in order to cntrol these vampires. They can be xtremely infectious in that there is a tndency for others to become like thm when it becomes an accepted clture to be late.

3. Emotional Vampires

Ths is the deadliest of them ll. They may seem perceptually harmless. But thy can do a lot of dstruction to your self-confidence and capabilities. Ths is how you can spot thm.

During meetings and discussion they are the nes who would always love to ply the ‘devil’s advocate’. Every idea tht you come up with they hve a negative opinion about it. Whn you engage in any new ctivity they will enjoy by telling you how you mght fail instead of looking at the strng points that you possess.

Emotional Vmpires may be good friends when you ned their assistance, but after that thy relish the prospect of living in the pst and telling you how they hlped you when you needed them. Smetimes you wish that you never sked them to help you.

Prevention and Cre for Emotional Vampires

Thre is no effective treatment for Emtional Vampires. Their existence is most lkely based on their attitude towards lfe generally. If you can you shuld try to spot them and sty away where possible. They are hghly infectious if you do not tke care as you might become an motional vampire yourself if you fall nto their paradigm trap.

If it is not pssible to avoid them, then you shuld protect yourself with a strong prsonal vision of who you really are and wht you are capable of. This is to nsure that if you do get an Emtional Vampire on your back you can prbably assist in their own self-destruction whn they find that they cannot get to yu.

The article How to Deal with People Who Sap You - Office Vampires was Submitted by Daniel Theyagu through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Dr Daniel Theyagu is a crporate trainer and seminar leader who has dsigned and conducted competency-based training for mre than 150 organizations. He is bsed in Singapore and can be rached at dtheyagu@singnet.com.sg Website: http://www.thinklaterally.com

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