logicallefty
Moderator
Fellas,
Been struggling really hard lately with the issue of interuption. It's really messing with my head to an unhealthy level. Examples:
At work, between the phone and people barging in my office, I bet I get interupted 40x a day between just the phone and people barging in. Mind you I do work that requires focus, skill, and concentration. Even a small task takes focus and I struggle to complete tasks of all sizes. It has got to the point where if I really want to complete a big project at work I have to take a day off and go hide in the corner of the library with my laptop. But even then I'm required to keep my cell on 24x7x365 so they at work just call that. And I get in trouble when I don't answer it. The fact that I took it as a vacation day means nothing.
My phone goes off all day and night. I get these automated alerts from work of things that are down so my sleep is constantly interupted. I am not required to act on each alert, but I am required to at least look at them in the middle of the night to see if I should act on them. ANd if I fail to act on one that I should, I get in trouble at work the next day.
At home I might be working on my budget or fixing the lawn mower or working on a computer for a friend, and it's pretty much the same thing. If I get 20 full minutes without something pulling me away, it's a good day.
As I get older, it gets harder to recover from the interuptions. I will forget what step I was on and what I was doing, and then have to backtrack, thus spending more time on the task than I normally would have if people would have just left me alone.
At work people are even getting to where they will cut in while I am on the phone, they just don't care. Everything new this second is always top priority over anything I was working on this second -1.
My boss has even said "you need to learn to prioritize better". It's hard to prioritize when everything you do is priority #1 and you are guaranteed, if you have 10 tasks, to be pizzing off 9 people because you were not working on theirs at any given second.
Its got to the point where I think I am getting ADD because now I expect interuptions all the time, and have trouble focusing even when people aren't interupting me because I know its only a matter of minutes before they will.
I am about at my wits end. Today I called in sick for work because I have a really nasty soar throat and headache, and work just bothered me for over 1/2 a day, interrupted my rest, they don't care.. Their stupid cr@p is priority over my health.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but I'm really at my wits end, and am curious if other people go through these same struggles....
Been struggling really hard lately with the issue of interuption. It's really messing with my head to an unhealthy level. Examples:
At work, between the phone and people barging in my office, I bet I get interupted 40x a day between just the phone and people barging in. Mind you I do work that requires focus, skill, and concentration. Even a small task takes focus and I struggle to complete tasks of all sizes. It has got to the point where if I really want to complete a big project at work I have to take a day off and go hide in the corner of the library with my laptop. But even then I'm required to keep my cell on 24x7x365 so they at work just call that. And I get in trouble when I don't answer it. The fact that I took it as a vacation day means nothing.
My phone goes off all day and night. I get these automated alerts from work of things that are down so my sleep is constantly interupted. I am not required to act on each alert, but I am required to at least look at them in the middle of the night to see if I should act on them. ANd if I fail to act on one that I should, I get in trouble at work the next day.
At home I might be working on my budget or fixing the lawn mower or working on a computer for a friend, and it's pretty much the same thing. If I get 20 full minutes without something pulling me away, it's a good day.
As I get older, it gets harder to recover from the interuptions. I will forget what step I was on and what I was doing, and then have to backtrack, thus spending more time on the task than I normally would have if people would have just left me alone.
At work people are even getting to where they will cut in while I am on the phone, they just don't care. Everything new this second is always top priority over anything I was working on this second -1.
My boss has even said "you need to learn to prioritize better". It's hard to prioritize when everything you do is priority #1 and you are guaranteed, if you have 10 tasks, to be pizzing off 9 people because you were not working on theirs at any given second.
Its got to the point where I think I am getting ADD because now I expect interuptions all the time, and have trouble focusing even when people aren't interupting me because I know its only a matter of minutes before they will.
I am about at my wits end. Today I called in sick for work because I have a really nasty soar throat and headache, and work just bothered me for over 1/2 a day, interrupted my rest, they don't care.. Their stupid cr@p is priority over my health.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but I'm really at my wits end, and am curious if other people go through these same struggles....