Placement of an agony box

Whether in the office, at home, on various workplaces, sometimes helping to set up a health care box. You order a specific person for that, e.g. once a week emptying the box and sifting the sorrow note.

The insertion of a slip can be done anonymously, e.g. in a company or consciously by name.

It should be used in between for the little grief, not for big problems. So a Kummerkasten home could be set up for all family members and the head of the family, mother or father, once a week sifting the notes and provides relief or calls the family council and discusses the grief in the family network. Small things can e.g. his "why is there no more Nutella for 3 days?" or "why does Fritz always need to be in the bathroom for so long" or "my bicycle tube is broken and my pocket money is not enough for a new one" etc. etc.


In a company you choose a Kummerkastenverwalter who then takes over the office. Since then can sometimes slip such as "Mr. Mustermann keeps women never the doors on" or "why is never replenished copy paper" be thrown.

Such grief boxes can curb the everyday frustration that can quickly accumulate. Of course, sometimes positive things can be thrown in, like "Miss Musterfrei has her birthday next week and does not want to give anything, one has to secretly buy and hide the flowers."

I once found a note in a grief box with "Mrs. M. is sitting in the workplace and constantly fighting with tears." The one who wrote the note was very very shy and did not like to address the colleague. Then I took over and it came out that the cat had died for the woman she was very attached to and did not dare to tell her colleagues, because she was afraid to be laughed at. I then had a long conversation about pets and parting with her, where more and more colleagues came and shared their own experiences. Thereafter, the colleague was accessible, open and got along well over the loss.

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