I am currently struggling to fill in my Zeiterfassung before the 3rd of Jan. The message went out on 29th Dec that it must be entered by 3rd Jan.
Ah, I’ve just realised I thought I couldn’t enter my timesheet details because I don’t speak German. Maybe it’s because they’ve shut off the ability to enter timesheet details.
When I checked my personal mail at work, it was a case of click, shift click, hit del, and close a window to clear out all the messages I had finished with. The keyboard alternative was shift and the arrow keys, one hit per email.
Now, through webmail, accessed with tweezers through a gnat’s chuff, it’s three clicks or four key presses PER EMAIL, two round-trips to the server through a gnat’s chuff, (=many seconds), possible messing around with pages of results instead of seeing them all on one window, and a technical contravention of my new Terms of Employment.
Grow up and accept the slow creeping death that is maturity?
or
Stand up and piss off somewhere else without the myriad frustrations that make adults the grumpy bastards they are?
First day back, so last night I obviously tried to get all those little jobs out of the way that I wouldn’t be able to do once at work since we were forced to access the internet with tweezers through a gnat’s chuff.
Consequently, I was to bed rather late and am not feeling in a very worky mood today.
I’ve discovered one of my biggest enemies is a sense of urgency that, no matter what I’m doing, tells me I am not doing the most important thing and therefore I’m wasting my time. I think another word for it is impatience. So here are some resolutions for the new year:
1) take 10 mins at 10pm every day to breathe
2) remember what I’m doing and keep doing it till I’m finished
3) get satisfaction from dealing with the obstructions to my goals
4) know what I want from others and tell them about it
5) never start Unreal Tournament after midnight, no matter what the pretext
6) dance like nobody’s watching