Do you find your office environment disease causing?
And I don’t mean in the environmental/health sense only although that is quite important as well. The smell of printer toner and the particles in the air are sickening enough. Ventilation is so poor that you feel stuffed with a dull headache by midday.
And then the people. So brainwashed into thinking that work is the only life one has that it is impossible to engage in a discussion outside of projects. I value my life outside of work so much that I don’t like to spend a single minute standing around if not work-related. Save for an exception or two, I’ve found office relationships to be superficial and insincere. So many fake smiles and groupthink that you feel like you’re suffocating.
I’m just not sure why we need to spend 9 or 10 hours in the office in addition to a commute time when communication through e-mail and phone is immediate. What’s the point of walking around with a Blackberry if you’re not more efficient? Just to sit at your desk, stress about the reports coming back, and the multiple layers of supervision.
Sometimes I add the number of actual, productive hours at work and wonder why I’m away from my home for 12 hours. Interruptions every 6 or 7 minutes, conversations, phone calls, and useless meetings.
It’s all very frustrating.
