If you often find yourself getting mad at work you need to first look at the possible causes for your anger and who is responsible for the feelings. Maybe you stayed up too late and are tired or you have a project deadline and feel anxiety and everything that happens in your office feels like a distraction to you. Maybe you believe other people at work are interfering with your job on purpose to make you look bad in front of the boss.

Taking your frustration out on other co-workers will not only drive a wedge into your working relationships, it may also lead to unemployment. Lacking control over your emotions is bad enough when it happens at home, but having someone with whom you work get under your skin to the point that you blow up, may be interpreted by others that they are a better person than you are. Being able to hold your anger in check will take some self-examination.

Not everyone in the workplace may take their job as seriously as you do and they may enjoy a little mischief. While not necessarily a good thing, it is not something that is worth losing your cool over. If you are the one in charge, sitting them down to explain how their behavior is a distraction to those attempting to work diligently will usually change their behavior. Flying off the handle when they pull a prank on you or someone else, only makes you look out of place.

Remember the old admonishment about having your mind in gear before engaging your mouth and think before you speak. Ask yourself, if you get really angry and vent, how others will perceive your actions. If you cannot honestly think that everyone will see your anger as justified, then perhaps the situation can be ignored. Maybe you can quietly and calmly address the individual's actions, explaining how it made you feel and why you believe that type of goings on have no place on the job site.

Probably the number one thing that causes angry outbursts at work is when a person takes everything personally. No matter what happens they think it happened only to them and everyone is out to make them miserable. Ask yourself if you are that important to organization that to make you look bad to others will have a positive effect on their job or their life. Ask yourself if it was just a practical joke and, although work may not be the proper venue for the activity, if it did not hurt anyone or anything, ask if it is really worth getting extremely angry over.

You should also exert your own self-respect into any situation that makes your angry. Keep telling yourself that, despite not being perfect you are a good person and a hard worker and no one can take that away from you. Know that you deserve to be treated with respect and in some cases with admiration. Once you have determined that, make the decision to treat others the same way, making them feel worthwhile and respected.