Do you ever find that certain annoyances come in waves?
By which I mean that sometimes things that you normally find annoying but not ALL that bothersome go through periods when they're just intolerable? Cuz my work environment is around that intolerable range right now.
Don't get me wrong. I like my job, and I like most my co-workers (even the troll is beginning to grow on me). But I hate the location of my desk. Because the office is too small for the current size of the staff, pretty much the only place they could put me when they assigned me a permanent spot was in the sales office. As I am not a salesperson, this basically isolates me from the people who are actually part of the same team as I am, which kind of sucks. For all of us. And lately, that fact has just annoyed the crap out of me. Especially as being in here usually goes one of two ways. Either it's deserted because the sales guys are in meeting or whatever, so I'm completely alone, or they're all here and being VERY loud. When I'm alone, it is easier to concentrate, but it's awfully lonely. And when they're all here, I'm not lonely, but I have a hard time concentrating on much of anything, as they're all yammering away into the phones. One in particular has absolutely no concept of an inside voice. Except that he kind of does, because although I can hear him perfectly well at his normal level from several rooms away, he still feels the need to raise his voice if he's trying to talk to me over one cubicle wall. Gah! The day I get to not be in the sales office anymore CANNOT come fast enough.
OK, I'm done bitching now.
Don't get me wrong. I like my job, and I like most my co-workers (even the troll is beginning to grow on me). But I hate the location of my desk. Because the office is too small for the current size of the staff, pretty much the only place they could put me when they assigned me a permanent spot was in the sales office. As I am not a salesperson, this basically isolates me from the people who are actually part of the same team as I am, which kind of sucks. For all of us. And lately, that fact has just annoyed the crap out of me. Especially as being in here usually goes one of two ways. Either it's deserted because the sales guys are in meeting or whatever, so I'm completely alone, or they're all here and being VERY loud. When I'm alone, it is easier to concentrate, but it's awfully lonely. And when they're all here, I'm not lonely, but I have a hard time concentrating on much of anything, as they're all yammering away into the phones. One in particular has absolutely no concept of an inside voice. Except that he kind of does, because although I can hear him perfectly well at his normal level from several rooms away, he still feels the need to raise his voice if he's trying to talk to me over one cubicle wall. Gah! The day I get to not be in the sales office anymore CANNOT come fast enough.
OK, I'm done bitching now.