The Tuesday I fixed the printer and hated every minute of it

Last Tuesday I spent 4 hours wrestling with a jammed office printer. By lunch I was covered in toner and wanted to throw it out the window. Then on Wednesday I took a half day to work on my old motorcycle in the garage and it felt like I was actually alive. My boss even called me that night to ask about some emails and I just let it ring. That gap between the boring crap I do for a paycheck and the stuff that actually makes me feel like a person keeps getting wider. Who else has had a day where the job stuff went fine but the real life stuff went amazing, or vice versa?

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jennifer8332d ago

Man, that printer story hits too close to home. My boss once called me while I was mid-meltdown over a car repair and I just stared at the phone like it was a bomb.

jenny472d ago

Oh man, I've been there. Best thing I ever did was set my phone to automatically send calls from my boss straight to voicemail when I'm in calendar-blocked "do not disturb" mode. That way I could take five minutes to breathe, check my budget for the car repair, and call back when I had a plan. It's not rude if you're buying yourself time to think instead of dumping your stress on them.