Totally.
OMFG, you guys, I am, like, sooooo bored.
AcronymCo is probably not unique in its holiday work-or-lack-thereof cycle. Pretty much from November 12th until January 7th, there is not a lot of useful work done. I mean, sure, business continues. The fires are fought and the year-end whatnot is wrapped up. The day to day busywork is accomplished so that one can say, "See! I did (xyz) today! I earned my paycheck! Mostly!" But there is a severe and obvious lack of motivation. People are doing their Christmas shopping on-line. People are planning their holiday meals. People are counting down the days to their vacations on one hand. The lack of interest in, I don't know, starting anything new or dealving into a project, well, it is staggering.
Take today, for example. I did the necessary this morning. Urgent things were followed up on and people were updated. I was a Good Corporate Citizen. But the day is creeping by so slowly that I do believe it's now going backwards. It's 12:34 right now, and when I look again it will be 10:05.
I am down to my Least Favorite Things left to be done on my list. The things that are left until there is absolutely nothing else left to do. That moment has arrived. I can feel my brain cells leaking out of my head as I type this, and not in a good way.
I am thankful to be gainfully employed. I just wish that employment was somewhat less Corporate, and somewhat more, oh, Tropical. With drinks. And little umbrellas.
AcronymCo is probably not unique in its holiday work-or-lack-thereof cycle. Pretty much from November 12th until January 7th, there is not a lot of useful work done. I mean, sure, business continues. The fires are fought and the year-end whatnot is wrapped up. The day to day busywork is accomplished so that one can say, "See! I did (xyz) today! I earned my paycheck! Mostly!" But there is a severe and obvious lack of motivation. People are doing their Christmas shopping on-line. People are planning their holiday meals. People are counting down the days to their vacations on one hand. The lack of interest in, I don't know, starting anything new or dealving into a project, well, it is staggering.
Take today, for example. I did the necessary this morning. Urgent things were followed up on and people were updated. I was a Good Corporate Citizen. But the day is creeping by so slowly that I do believe it's now going backwards. It's 12:34 right now, and when I look again it will be 10:05.
I am down to my Least Favorite Things left to be done on my list. The things that are left until there is absolutely nothing else left to do. That moment has arrived. I can feel my brain cells leaking out of my head as I type this, and not in a good way.
I am thankful to be gainfully employed. I just wish that employment was somewhat less Corporate, and somewhat more, oh, Tropical. With drinks. And little umbrellas.
My husband works in IT for a company that does processing for credit cards. Because of the Christmas season and the mega use of charge cards, they do nothing - and I mean nothing - to the system from November 1-January 15.
That makes for some extremely boring days. I get email after email from him. He comes home every day loaded with new "information" he has researched online, or new purchases from ebay. I don't even work in the slowness and it drives me crazy!
Posted by
Perplexity |
1:43 PM
I feel your pain! I work in the medical field. At this time of year, people are putting off medical procedures until after the holidays so things are getting slow and boring here, and will last until after the new year.
Posted by
Jeanette |
6:59 AM