Are people sitting at home day drinking? One has to wonder.
I am a day late with my blog post this week. I had a huge work deliverable due on Monday, and I was still working on it on all day on Tuesday. I actually just now finished the deliverable. I present my work to my client in about an hour. I do not normally miss deadlines. I especially do not miss deadlines for work that I enjoy doing, which is the case with this deliverable.
I fell into the trap of getting pulled into other people’s responsibilities, and this left me without enough time to get my own deliverable done. This led me to long work days and miss deadlines. On my drive home on Friday, I found myself wondering what the people responsible for the work that I did all day on Friday were actually doing. I wondered if they were drinking on the job like the director that someone with the handle of Consultant ranted about on MyBlankJob some weeks back:
The people responsible for the work were at home, while us doing the work were at the office. I agree with the post above that the novelty of working from home has worn off. I too spend a great deal of time tracking people down, and I catch people not paying attention on calls on an ongoing basis. Are people sitting at home day drinking? One has to wonder.
I then had to laugh, when I finally logged into MyBlankJob this morning to find material for this week’s blog post. The latest site name is:
One might think that I would be frustrated or angry over all of this. Honestly, I am sympathetic. Alcoholism is perhaps the most common form of addiction. As I wrote in a previous job post – My Drunk Job | Run With Me (runwithme35.com) inspired by Consultant’s experience with a drunk director at her job, I think that people are in fact drinking on the job while working remotely. I do not believe they are bad human beings, I believe that the lack of human connection from remote working is driving addictive behaviors.
I also believe that many remain in situations where they are overworked to the point that they have stopped working all together. It is like ones is using a bucket to try to stop a tidal wave, and they are giving up and figuratively drowning. They are just waiting to be shown the door, so they can collect a severance and unemployment. This sounds bad, but I don’t fall people for being human.
If you find yourself in a boat similar to what I describe, know that you are not alone. Overworked employees and alcoholism are as much a pandemic as Covid19. The difference is that there is no vaccine for either. It is easy to get frustrated. Rather than show your frustrations to your coworkers, join me in a safer wait to vent at MyBlankJob. You will find you are not alone, and you will find advice and resources to help you make positive changes to your current situation.