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elainegrey) wrote2009-05-07 10:27 am
elainegrey) wrote2009-05-07 10:27 am
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Bah. (Procrastination stuff)
So, i show up at work bright and fresh and find a long thread of super-misinformation filling my email box.
This is firefighting! The rush of emotional response, the theatrics of indignation (i try not to play them out in interactions, but i can't deny the mental theater). Stomp out thread of panicked mistaken deduction here to find another thread there. Acknowledge one request for action, and then have to repeat the ack several times as others pipe up with related but slightly different calls. Sift through all the smoke and flames to see if a real problem was present to begin with.
Then, i'm done. The urgent, urgent, "Help me, oh, someone in the California office," have all been dispatched. I greet my colleague with a, "Ignore all the emails except for that last one i sent to you." And now what.
There's the potato patch to go look for the spuds somewhere in the mud.
Oh dear.
They're not potatoes.
They're YAMS.
This is firefighting! The rush of emotional response, the theatrics of indignation (i try not to play them out in interactions, but i can't deny the mental theater). Stomp out thread of panicked mistaken deduction here to find another thread there. Acknowledge one request for action, and then have to repeat the ack several times as others pipe up with related but slightly different calls. Sift through all the smoke and flames to see if a real problem was present to begin with.
Then, i'm done. The urgent, urgent, "Help me, oh, someone in the California office," have all been dispatched. I greet my colleague with a, "Ignore all the emails except for that last one i sent to you." And now what.
There's the potato patch to go look for the spuds somewhere in the mud.
Oh dear.
They're not potatoes.
They're YAMS.