Do you have healthy boundaries at work?

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Quiz Questions

1.
Your manager books an after work-hours team building event on a date where you have a personal (family/friends) commitment. Would you:
- A.
  Tell your boss that you would love to come but are unable to attend.
- B.
  Change your plans to avoid upsetting your boss.
- C.
  Feel obligated to try and do both the personal commitment and the team building event too.
2.
Your loved one has made comments recently about the number of hours you’ve been working and how it impacts your life together. Would you:
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- A.
  Say you’ll work less after this project is done (not really knowing when that is).
- B.
  Respond “We can’t pay the bills if I don’t have a job!” (or something along those lines).
- C.
  Evaluate your working hours and explore this with your loved one.
3.
Your teammate wants you to apologize for something you did… but you don’t think you’ve done anything wrong. Would you:
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- A.
  Avoid the discussion and complain about this to a co-worker.
- B.
  Apologize to maintain peace in the relationship.
- C.
  Ask for clarification to better understand your teammate’s concerns.
4.
Your teammate is about to miss a deliverable at work and begs for your help. You are also under a deadline to finish your own work. Would you:
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- A.
  Reply that you’d help out if you could, but you are in a similar situation.
- B.
  Reply that you’re busy but feel guilty for leaving your mate in a bind.
- C.
  Work overtime to try to meeting both deadlines.
5.
While you are on a group conference call, another participant keeps jumping in and cutting you off. Would you:
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- A.
  Gently bring it to their attention, and ask to finish your sentence.
- B.
  Continue to participate on the call, getting cut off again and again.
- C.
  Leave the call, saying it got “dropped” or you had a “bad connection”.
6.
When you and your manager talk with upper-level management or key clients, your manager has a habit of taking credit for the hard work you do. Would you:
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- A.
  Bite your tongue and smile to avoid rocking the boat.
- B.
  Take steps to start looking for a new job.
- C.
  Speak privately to you manager to make them aware of this habit.
7.
In the “Cash Only” line to pay for lunch, a friend realizes they don’t have cash; you have lent them money a couple of times already this month and they ask you to buy their lunch and pay you back later. Would you:
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- A.
  Smile and say you’d love to help but can’t today.
- B.
  Lend the money because you have it and would feel bad saying “no.”
- C.
  Lend them the money, but say it is the last time.
8.
You’re heading out of the office for a long-awaited vacation when your manager drops an urgent task that only you can complete on your desk. Would you:
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- A.
  Postpone your trip one day to finish the task.
- B.
  Agree to work on the task while you’re away on your trip.
- C.
  Let your manager know you’d be happy to work on it when you return from your vacation.
9.
You’ve been taking international mobile calls for work you didn’t realize would be needed on your personal cell phone. You’ve exceeded your phone plan’s limit, creating a considerable expense. Would you:
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- A.
  Let others know you won’t accept calls until work provides a mobile phone.
- B.
  Explain the circumstance that brought on the overage charges to your manager and ask to expense them.
- C.
  Just pay the overage and hope it doesn’t happen next month.
10.
Your colleague tells several inappropriate jokes at a work event that you feel are offensive. Would you:
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- A.
  Pull them aside and talk about your discomfort with what they’ve said.
- B.
  Cringe and look away, hoping they’ll pick up on your disapproval.
- C.
  Say nothing because no one at the party seemed to mind.
11.
Your manager booked time for a meeting, and then took twice the time originally planned. The overage leaves your schedule in a mess. Would you:
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- A.
  Ask your manager to provide cover for your absence in the other pre-booked meetings.
- B.
  Tell the people it’s inconvenienced that it was your manager’s fault.
- C.
  Bring it up, asking your manager to be better at predicting how long meetings will be.
12.
You dread team lunches because certain people tend to criticize your profession or make it the butt of jokes. Would you:
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- A.
  Go confidently and, if it happens, let others know when their comments cross the line.
- B.
  Create a reason to stay at work because you dislike dealing with this situation.
- C.
  Go along with the activity but when the jokes start, wish you had not gone.
13.
One of your co-workers says something negative about you in public. Would you:
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- A.
  Feel hurt but think it was just your co-worker having a bad day.
- B.
  Pull your co-worker aside and ask about what they said so you can objectively discuss it.
- C.
  Ignore the situation and try to let the comment roll off your back.
14.
Your manager assigns more work to you because a teammate is off work, but you are already feeling pressured by your existing deadlines. Would you:
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- A.
  Speak to your manager about how you feel, and offer to take some, but not all, the work.
- B.
  Call in sick and take a “wellness” day.
- C.
  Further compromise your working hours by taking it on, putting in more overtime.
15.
You get into a work project and realize that the time it will take to do this well exceeds what’s been planned for it. Would you:
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- A.
  Let your manager know and re-visit the commitments that have been made to find a win/win solution.
- B.
  Decide that “the powers that be” must know more than you do and just keep quiet.
- C.
  Try to put distance between you and this project.

Quiz Outcomes

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0-30
2.
31-60
3.
61-90

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