MrDudeMan
Lifer
i have to get this off of my chest before i explode. background: i work part time at a company to help them get their products moving in the right direction in the down time from my own company. it's only two days a week, but the old people still make me want to /wrists.
every. single. morning. all of the old people in this office walk around and chat with everyone about pointless things for several minutes. it drives me crazy. they have nothing to do so they don't understand that i don't wan't to stop what i'm doing to listen to absolutely nothing. i'm going to have to start shutting my door so people will leave me alone. they all want to be friends and have a good time, but i'm here to work. of course, i can't say that because i'll become a social pariah (maybe i don't care anymore...).
even a simple question like "how are you doing?" gets on my nerves at this point. it didn't at first, but the conversation never ends there. i also really, really don't care if there's pizza and it's getting cold especially if you're going to tell me more than three times. just like yesterday and all the days before that, i brought my lunch and i've told you this repeatedly.
then there's the idiot old guy who comes in and sits in my other chair because he wants to have a conversation about the work i'm doing. i don't even turn around to look at him and i usually reply with one word answers until there's a long enough silence that he eventually leaves. it sounds rude, and it probably is, but it's nicer than what i want to do. i talked to him the first few times until i realized i was feeding a stray cat. it always ends with "i just don't understand what you do with all the little circuits and blah blah blah" so if you don't understand even after i explain it then STOP TRYING.
just leave me the hell alone and let me work. UGH. well, i guess it isn't that simple because i have to tell basically all of them what to do at certain times during the day, but i want the interaction to be strictly about work. i've tried being nice about it and i've even tried telling myself (repeatedly) that they're just trying to be friendly so i should get over it. however, that stops working five minutes later when the old lady patrols by my office to ask about my kids and my weekend and blah blah. it sounds so petty to get annoyed at a friendly conversation, but it's just too frequent.
i want to be here to get work done and then leave to see my family. if i spend 30 minutes throughout the day talking to people, that's 30 less minutes i can spend with my family. there's just no nice way to say any of this and, unfortunately, the paycheck is disproportionately large compared to the effort so i really don't want to leave.
maybe i'll tell the president to come up with things for these people to do to keep them busy. that's probably the smartest way to handle it and maybe, just maybe, it will reduce the interrupt frequency down to a level that doesn't make me want to strangle old ladies.
every. single. morning. all of the old people in this office walk around and chat with everyone about pointless things for several minutes. it drives me crazy. they have nothing to do so they don't understand that i don't wan't to stop what i'm doing to listen to absolutely nothing. i'm going to have to start shutting my door so people will leave me alone. they all want to be friends and have a good time, but i'm here to work. of course, i can't say that because i'll become a social pariah (maybe i don't care anymore...).
even a simple question like "how are you doing?" gets on my nerves at this point. it didn't at first, but the conversation never ends there. i also really, really don't care if there's pizza and it's getting cold especially if you're going to tell me more than three times. just like yesterday and all the days before that, i brought my lunch and i've told you this repeatedly.
then there's the idiot old guy who comes in and sits in my other chair because he wants to have a conversation about the work i'm doing. i don't even turn around to look at him and i usually reply with one word answers until there's a long enough silence that he eventually leaves. it sounds rude, and it probably is, but it's nicer than what i want to do. i talked to him the first few times until i realized i was feeding a stray cat. it always ends with "i just don't understand what you do with all the little circuits and blah blah blah" so if you don't understand even after i explain it then STOP TRYING.
just leave me the hell alone and let me work. UGH. well, i guess it isn't that simple because i have to tell basically all of them what to do at certain times during the day, but i want the interaction to be strictly about work. i've tried being nice about it and i've even tried telling myself (repeatedly) that they're just trying to be friendly so i should get over it. however, that stops working five minutes later when the old lady patrols by my office to ask about my kids and my weekend and blah blah. it sounds so petty to get annoyed at a friendly conversation, but it's just too frequent.
i want to be here to get work done and then leave to see my family. if i spend 30 minutes throughout the day talking to people, that's 30 less minutes i can spend with my family. there's just no nice way to say any of this and, unfortunately, the paycheck is disproportionately large compared to the effort so i really don't want to leave.
maybe i'll tell the president to come up with things for these people to do to keep them busy. that's probably the smartest way to handle it and maybe, just maybe, it will reduce the interrupt frequency down to a level that doesn't make me want to strangle old ladies.
