Today's Keyboard Smash
Jun. 17th, 2020 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksIn the scheme of a ten-hour shift, the one hour I spent beating my head against a metaphorical wall should not define the day.
The day was otherwise very productive and reasonably pleasant. (Though I will point out, dear coworker, that you could maybe shut the fuck up about your new job offer while I am trying to count parts by hand. Just. You've been talking all day. Shut up. For. A minute.) I learned some new things in the course of being loaned to another department. I got to quietly and competently grind through tasks.
But oh, that one hour. The problem job has, despite two weeks of modifications and improvements, begun to exhibit the exact same flaw that got it sent away for fixing in the first place. So it has that special Groundhog Day flavor of doing something different and still experiencing the same bullshit.
It shouldn't outweigh the rest. It shouldn't matter. And yet. It leaves a bitter taste that drives everything else from the mind.
Tomorrow, I get to try again. We'll see if that's a blessing or a curse.
The day was otherwise very productive and reasonably pleasant. (Though I will point out, dear coworker, that you could maybe shut the fuck up about your new job offer while I am trying to count parts by hand. Just. You've been talking all day. Shut up. For. A minute.) I learned some new things in the course of being loaned to another department. I got to quietly and competently grind through tasks.
But oh, that one hour. The problem job has, despite two weeks of modifications and improvements, begun to exhibit the exact same flaw that got it sent away for fixing in the first place. So it has that special Groundhog Day flavor of doing something different and still experiencing the same bullshit.
It shouldn't outweigh the rest. It shouldn't matter. And yet. It leaves a bitter taste that drives everything else from the mind.
Tomorrow, I get to try again. We'll see if that's a blessing or a curse.
