May032007

Whistle while you work

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Business Perspective by Brapke

I guess it’s time to write another blog post. Umm, let’s see. It’s about 2pm and I am only just start to eat lunch. I am feeling a little light-headed as a result.

The terrible thing is that since I am hungry, I will eat lunch very quickly and this will mean a pretty significant post-lunch crash. This is the life of a desk worker. You start managing the most inane things that you wouldn’t care about if you were a student, artiste or trophy wife.

Things like:

  • the peaks and troughs of your caffeine levels
  • related: timing your coffee so you can avoid the bathroom crowd at 10am and 2pm
  • post-lunch crash (some say it’s a blood sugar drop, others say its the digestive system at work)
  • buzz from having a glass of wine at a fancy lunch
  • how long you can stall before acknowledging someone’s email
  • whether or not it’s ok to steal food from the conference room (my rule? I only steal if its breakfast)
  • staggering your visits to your favourite web sites so you don’t use them all up in one hour
  • obsessive-compulsive snacking just to stay awake
  • organising things to occur at the end of meetings so you can always leave on time instead of debating things you already decided on 3 months ago

This is office life.

But hey, I’ve settled in very well here at work. As each week flies by, hours become days, days become weeks and weeks become deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. I am feeling less like a confused puppy and more like I’m actually doing my job. All that remains now it’s getting a toehold on a social life so I can start spending all my salary on something else besides Amazon.com.

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6 comments »

Lachlan

Sounds like it’s all going well :)

Also – WOW you notice a lot of crap about officework. Though, I don’t really get the caffeine high/low thing or the lunch-drop stuff, and no-one seems to work regular hours here, so there is no regular toilet rush haha.
karan

There’s also the steady drop in productivity until about 4 o’clock, when the end of the day is in sight, followed by a flurry of activity. Except on Fridays where the anticipation slowly builds for beer (five) o’clock to come around…
Jack

Unless you work in a place with flexible hours… then everyone just fucks off at 4pm.

GOOD LUCK GETTING A REPLY TO YOUR PROBLEM.
Mike

I cannot believe you people get payed more than people in my line of work. Do I have to deal with the ‘stress’ of managing the viewing of my favourite websites or planning when to have my snacks? No, because I’m actually working, organising and planning what work has to be done. All you office shmucks can kiss my ass :-P.
Daniel

I’d pay you better, Mike, but as things stand, your job is going to be exported to China. Soz.
Mike

HAhahaha, all I can do is laugh coz your soo right studds. hahahaha

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