I'm going to keep this brief... but I really want to have a rant. But I also need some away time from the screen after work.
How on earth do NT's make it through the week? I've moved into a new role which requires a bit more of working with other people than I was previously but after today I actually feel exhausted. Already. Like not having a weekend. Within minutes of my logging off I was fast asleep. For 3 hours!
I've pinned it down to the endless circular discussions about stuff. Today was probably 80% waffling and 20% actually getting things done. Seriously - I just need a list of things to do and I'll get it done. But some folk just seem so.... ....disorganised. Why am I having a conversation about the same issue I had on Friday? Why are people only resolving an issue with 3 people when there are 5 involved (they're all doing different things) ?. Why when writing "how to" guides is it just a steam of consciousness with no layout, bullet-points and logical steps - has anyone ever used instructions before (or read a dummies book for that matter?). Why put something on the "to-do" list, and then go off and then do it anyway - so it didn't need listing in the first place - now I've already planned it into my schedule of things to-do. Why introduce another piece of work - which isn't urgent - on top of the current piece of work - which is? Why ask why I've listed how I crunched some pretty messy data in an addendum along with the crunched data when its sole purpose is to avoid confusion on how the data was crunched and by its very existence it appears to have created the very confusion it was seeking to avoid (really!!)? And why (oh why) are people telling me why they're doing things (I don't need to know why they're doing those things - I don't even need to know they ARE doing those things). What am I supposed to do with that information -why do they think it's important that I know about it? Surely I'd be more productive if time wasn't spent giving me information that I don't actually need. And why when arranging to discuss a piece of work - end up discussing another piece of work !!!!!?!?!
I know it's the chaotic world we live in and people do things with the best of intentions. But every once in a while it becomes existential and while another conversation is on the merry-go-round I have that out-of-body experience where I'm wondering....
"There's got to be a better way to do this".
I'm taking steps - building in buffer time, get tasks agreed up-front where possible. Building time in to do them and being incommunicado. And making sure a stress ball and fiddle/distraction items are close to hand.
I could go on, but I've felt overloaded today and needed to offload. Done.
