PSY 2404 2/12/2016 Article Review: Work – Family Conflict and Emotions: Effects At Work and At Home I did not like reading this article because it reminded me of times where conflicts at home have affected my performance at work. Although it is common practice to leave your problems at home while at work, it is most definitely inevitable that those thoughts of the problem at home will arise while at your place of work. While working at a sales and marketing firm called Coast 2 Coast Marketing, it was imperative for me to keep a high PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) to perform well in the sales aspect of the position. The times where I had conflicts at home or worries about things at home would definitely affect my performance at work. I was not the only one also. I would see these same patterns in my recruits (The Spartans). While they were going through conflicts at home, they were more likely to get irritated by certain tasks I would assign to them, or be somewhere else completely mentally instead of focusing on the task at hand. There was one instance where a recruit of mine felt guilty about a home situation at work (he had stolen money out of his mother’s purse due to not having enough to get to work let alone buy food etc.) and I offered to talk to him about what was bothering him. After spilling his guts to me, I offered him some money and advised him to call me or ask me before the end of the day if he needed any money so that way he does not have to steal from his mother again. He must have taken offence to the offer I had given him because he had automatically snapped at me saying, “What do you think you’r my father or something trying to give me money. I don’t need the hand out, don’t disrespect me like that again.” I was shocked to hear that response from my recruit. I was expecting a thank you or something positive, yet I was responded to with hostility.