First there was road rage, then there was air rage; <A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/careers/?p=154&tag=nl.e539">now there is desk rage.</A> Is desk rage truly the newest "workplace killer" or is this just a contrived story to fill out news hours in the dog days of summer? Not to make light of the real-life scary workplace headlines, but it seems that much of the advice on handling desk rage might at best be hard to apply, and at its worst entirely missing the mark.

Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz of the Boswell Group told NBC news that "rage can be avoided when workers can talk about what's wrong in the office." Career Builder, via CNN.com, suggests that employees dealing with an enraged coworker apologize for anything they might have done to set him or her off. The next time you're at work and something has gone down that you have decided is the last straw consider instead The IT Grind's Three No-Nonsense Steps to Stepping Away From Your Desk Rage.