{"id":40100,"date":"2015-01-09T21:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T01:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40100"},"modified":"2020-07-14T21:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T01:43:13","slug":"work-griping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40100","title":{"rendered":"Work griping"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn\u2019t happen that often, but work has been stressing me out lately.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be the first to admit that my work isn\u2019t at all that strenuous on a regular basis, but lately it\u2019s been far more trying on a daily basis than it regularly is, and I\u2019m finding myself actually dreading going to work in the mornings as of late.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazingly, my work anxieties lately don\u2019t have (as much) anything to do with the insistence of people in stuffy office America using PowerPoint, but simply the fact that people lack consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be too easy (not to mention narcissistic) to simply declare myself smarter or more considerate than other people, but frankly I don\u2019t always think that is the case in either application.\u00a0 Sure, I call people dumb all the time, but really I have to guess that people just aren\u2019t paying attention.\u00a0 Or maybe I\u2019m just trying to be generally nice about the whole thing, but the bottom line is that I frankly do believe that people lack a lot of the little social considerations of others that I seem to think that I don\u2019t, and it usually leads to lot of judgmental observations of what I think are the shortcomings of society in general.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Currently at work, I\u2019m dealing with numerous projects from various internal clients that all seem to have conflicting deadlines.\u00a0 I don\u2019t miss deadlines, plain and simple, but the fact of the matter is that only so many projects can be superficially requested due on a single date before it gets to a point where there simply isn\u2019t enough time in a day to accomplish them all, regardless of capability.\u00a0 Long story short, my workload is huge, and the deadlines aren\u2019t loose.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, a lot of this sudden work flow stems from a whole lot of people rushing to get their projects in and out the door prior to the holiday period, so the project managers could go on their cushy vacations with clear consciences.\u00a0 And while they\u2019re on their cushy vacations, their work queues build and backlog, so when they return, it\u2019s yet another clusterfuck as they try to play catchup to the rat race.\u00a0 Except it\u2019s numerous people doing this exact same exercise in futility, and ultimately the only ones that truly suffer are us slave designers.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a stickler for procedure and protocol, and I don\u2019t hesitate to remind those that try and (unreasonably) operate outside of it of what needs to be the case so that everyone goes home happy.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m balancing on a tightrope of how much I can tell people to get their shit together and play by the rules (AKA ask for more reasonable deadlines, AKA more than just 24 hours), before they personally decide that I\u2019m apparently \u201cdifficult\u201d for sticking to protocol and not caving into their bullshit, and eventually circumvent me to try and get what they really want.<\/span><\/p>\n

When\u00a0everything<\/em>\u00a0is deemed a rush job, then\u00a0nothing<\/em>\u00a0is a rush job.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can defend my actions and the fact that I have the balls to tell people to stick to protocol, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that I think I\u2019m developing, if I don\u2019t already have it, the reputation of being \u201cdifficult\u201d sometimes.\u00a0 Fuck me, for wishing that everyone follows the rules like they should be, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Such behavior doesn\u2019t exist if people were actually considerate, or intelligent enough to have fail-safes in place.\u00a0 Like checking their email periodically to see if anything is on the horizon, or to have someone cover for their projects while they\u2019re on vacation.\u00a0 Or light bulb, actually\u00a0communicating<\/em>\u00a0with one another so that dates don\u2019t have so much conflicts on them.\u00a0 Whether or not consideration or intellectual decision are even capable, the end result is the same; people trying to cut in front of the other, all having the same wah-story about how their client is more important than someone else\u2019s, and how they need their shit before everyone else.\u00a0 RIGHT NOW!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFeast or famine\u201d is the mantra that is often said about how things operate, and it unfortunately\u00a0is<\/em>, too much to ask that people try and get their shit in order more efficiently, and communicate with others, to prevent such instances where everyone is making requests at the same time, or all sitting on their asses simultaneously.<\/span><\/p>\n

This feast will ultimately pass, as they all do, leading to another eventual period of famine.\u00a0 Perhaps the fact that it had occurred all throughout the holidays, which has up until this year, been known for a more relaxing time of work doesn\u2019t help the anxiety, because it was not as expected.\u00a0 Or, the fact that my team is short-staffed currently on account of some reassignments of members has the rest of us stretched a little thin.\u00a0 Perhaps a little of both.\u00a0 Either way, it\u2019s making me not enjoy coming to work as much, and become short with the world when I\u2019m on my way here.\u00a0 Like really, I\u2019m getting back to my pessimistic mentality that when you have to ask yourself if someone is\u00a0that dumb<\/em>, the answer is the obvious yes, again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuck it, too many people are stupid, don\u2019t pay any attention, and have zero consideration for others.\u00a0 Everyone who falls into these categories sucks.\u00a0 The end.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn\u2019t happen that often, but work has been stressing me out lately.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be the first to admit that my work isn\u2019t at all that strenuous on a regular basis, but lately it\u2019s been far more trying on a daily basis than it regularly is, and I\u2019m finding myself actually dreading going to work … Continue reading Work griping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,72,37,15,49],"class_list":["post-40100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-job","tag-og","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40101,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40100\/revisions\/40101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}