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Cabin Fever in the Cubicle

I’ve become a bit panicky at work, having nightmares that I'll be saddled with double the workload.
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Jane D.

The nemesis at work quit and is going to greener pastures. I'm happy that he won't be in my face anymore, but sad that in life, reality so often means that the politically savvy get ahead.

Moreover, I am starting to have nightmares that the nemesis won't be replaced, and I will be saddled with double the workload—then my ADD self will be totally exposed. Since the announcement, I’ve become a bit panicky, like maybe I should job-jump again. The itch has been amplifying, so tempting to find something else. I feel myself getting a bit bored and antsy, cabin fever in the cubicle. The resume already looks like a checkerboard, a tapestry without any pattern. It’s the ADD me again.

On the same end of things, the love life drags, with the mystery man as on and off as an annoying nasal drip. The doctor/swimmer man has disappeared, choosing, perhaps, to focus more on his training for the English channel than any sort of female friendship.

However, the ADD self has been helpful in this scenario, in that I’ve become somewhat bored of them, anyway. Boredom can soften the blow to what could lead to a smashed heart.

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2 Comments:

  • Posted by Catbro - Jan 23 2008 @ 6:32 PM
    Cabin Fever in MY Cubicle
    Boy, do I EVER know that feeling!! At every single job I've had for 20+ years, I have ALWAYS ended up with more or double work. The sad excuse of my employers is that, well, "You're so good at what you do that you have time on your hands. So why not help out the other people who don't have enough time?" Those "people" who "don't have enough time to do their work" are usually the slackers and social loafers who whine if they don't have 2 hours of chat time at work every day. Most of these people have college degrees and absolutely NO common sense. I don't have a college degree yet (no scholarship money for middle-aged women who work, just the teens and single moms)and I run really fast intellectual circles around the "slow" people at work. I think of that circular dancing as a form of fun, now. In my current job, I now have to work in 4, yes 4, separate departments so that I can be "kept busy" in the sweatshop publishing company I work for at the moment. May the pagan ADD gods help me if they find out I have ADHD, they'll just try to have me in 2 more departments while treating me like crap. I am SO glad my cubicle is in the far corner of the building, because that way my supervisor has to haul herself diagonally across the building to haunt my cubby-cule as well as the other people trying to pawn their work off on me so that they can have their own "chit chat time". A message to "Cabin Fever in the Cubicle": Take five minutes a day to hypothetically hack the crap out of the hypothetical effigies of those people who trap you in your cubicle and make you feel caged. Trust me, it's almost a mental health necessity for me and I am very, very creative. :)
  • Posted by L. Scott - Jan 20 2008 @ 7:40 PM
    I know that feeling
    I too have had those issues. I need to feel at home somewhere out there. I had been in the military for 10 years to help me with my career goals, but now that I have a degree, I am still unhappy, and so is my boss. I have only worked for this company for a little over a month, and my boss is already annoyed with me. My ADD has been exposed and it has significantly effected my self-esteem. I am in a despirated bind here to win back my life.
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