Re: The thread for flipping shits (and tables)
07-13-2011, 03:20 AM
I'm going to flip a shit or two about my work schedule here for a minute. Mostly, it's the fact that I have to get up before 6AM and then not get to do anything at all until after 5. I've then got dinner, a few hours for internetting, and then I'm in that sonofabitch period where I can either stay on the computer and get nothing done because it's late and I'm tired or go to sleep like a sensible person. Of course, I invariably choose the former, leaving me running on about four hours of sleep all week for no good reason other than "I'm an idiot when I'm tired and it's like midnight."
Oh, and work. I'm doing that, but aside from a few token bits of scripting here and there, it's been testing software and checking data. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a steady stream of it, mind; I could just queue up an audiobook or some music and pound through that stuff for hours. No, it's the way I have to stop every half-hour or so and go tell someone "I'm done, give me more" that gets to me. I've quite clearly demonstrated that I can work through n entries in m minutes, stop giving me 30n/m entries to work through and hand me something in the triple digits!
It probably says something that the thing I most enjoyed doing (a script to move some documents based on the contents of an HTML file) ended up being not even needed in the first place. It was useless, yeah, but at least it was something related to any skills I have besides eyesight and an ability to click checkboxes.
Also, the whole lack-of-sleep-plus-not-much-time-to-myself thing has made me a mite tetchy, and being tetchy has been annoying, since I see it and keep slipping into it whenever I'm not actively being polite, and I absolutely hate being an asshole, because then someone's being an asshole, which gets on my nerves. So that just keeps feeding on itself until the weekend, when I've been unwinding, staying up until 4 or 5, and waking up at noon or so. You know, getting things done on a normal schedule. Weekends are nice.
So yeah, consider those shits flipped. I'm going to see if I can't get another thing I've been meaning to get done done and also maybe get to sleep six hours before I need to wake up.
Oh, and work. I'm doing that, but aside from a few token bits of scripting here and there, it's been testing software and checking data. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a steady stream of it, mind; I could just queue up an audiobook or some music and pound through that stuff for hours. No, it's the way I have to stop every half-hour or so and go tell someone "I'm done, give me more" that gets to me. I've quite clearly demonstrated that I can work through n entries in m minutes, stop giving me 30n/m entries to work through and hand me something in the triple digits!
It probably says something that the thing I most enjoyed doing (a script to move some documents based on the contents of an HTML file) ended up being not even needed in the first place. It was useless, yeah, but at least it was something related to any skills I have besides eyesight and an ability to click checkboxes.
Also, the whole lack-of-sleep-plus-not-much-time-to-myself thing has made me a mite tetchy, and being tetchy has been annoying, since I see it and keep slipping into it whenever I'm not actively being polite, and I absolutely hate being an asshole, because then someone's being an asshole, which gets on my nerves. So that just keeps feeding on itself until the weekend, when I've been unwinding, staying up until 4 or 5, and waking up at noon or so. You know, getting things done on a normal schedule. Weekends are nice.
So yeah, consider those shits flipped. I'm going to see if I can't get another thing I've been meaning to get done done and also maybe get to sleep six hours before I need to wake up.