Deadbeat Blogger
I've been a deadbeat and I don't see much hope of improvement in the situation.
So here's my job: I get there around 8:30. It's already insane because Europe has been at work for hours and the next thing I know, the East Coast has been at work for hours. Then Chicago and I'm like "What the hell
happened?" And all my coworkers are saying the same thing. Things are insane, so insane that I don't even think about going out for lunch. I've never even been
downstairs for lunch. Except for two times when my boss was like, "You should go out to lunch."
Around 5:30 everyone starts yelling at each other, "You should leave. You're always here late. You should just shut everything right now and go home." I start telling people I'm going to go to the gym tonight, goddammit, and that my gym bag has been here for 2 weeks and I'm not paying $62 a month for that. Around 6:30 Colliculus calls and wants to know when I'm coming home, because I haven't answered his email asking the same question. By 7 I give up, pack up some homework for myself and leave. Somewhere between 20 and 50 percent of my coworkers are still there.
I come home, we cook dinner, I watch the Simpsons and then I do my homework. I say, "It's only going to take an hour" and usually that's true. But by then my eyes hurt so I do the homework with one eye closed, alternating eyes every minute or so, and the last thing I want to do is blog. And when I'm done with the homework it's 12:30 and I'm like, goddamn! I'm going to bed.
But before that, I email whatever the homework was to whomever it was due to. And sometimes that person writes back with comments, which is even scarier. And they tell me it's way too late to be working.
One day I came in at noon and I had 129 new email messages!
Nobody told me the hours would be this bad at my job. All of them say, "It's not always like this. You just got here at a really busy time." I can see how they might be right, because all of the projects I'm working on have a deadline sometime in October. That's a long time, though.
On the plus side, it's never boring. That's what I wanted, right?
Today's my birthday. That's why although I did stay until 7, I did not take any work home with me. So I'm finally blogging.
