How today is going

[cosmolinguist]

I narrowly averted myself from typing the word "Google" into Bing just now because I wanted to search for something, so that's how capable I am feeling this Friday afternoon of the deep thinking work I need to do right now with "flow state" levels of focus and concentration.

I'm also being micromanaged to bell and back this week -- three times now, my boss has asked me if I've written an email or called someone and then sent me another message about it while I was writing up whatever the result of the call/email was. And I have a meeting with him last thing this afternoon, where I have to tell him what I did today.

Which mostly continues to be "have no idea how to use Excel to do the stuff that needs to be done," because data analysis is not my job!

Comments

[otter]

I want to tell your boss a few things. Like stop wasting time and energy harrassing you.

[jesse_the_k]

So well put!

"Here, just use this excel spreadsheet" is SO NOT HELPFUL if one isn't trained in data analysis.

(Deleted rant about decades of software publishers' over promises that "with our tools, anyone can be a" graphic artist/data analyst/etc.)

[forests_of_fire]

Hey, in completely random, I saw this article about Microsoft shutting Skype down. IIRC, you and your parents use Skype for your weekly talks.

[cosmolinguist]

Yep! Can't wait to see how they deal with this... Thank you for the heads up. :)

[forests_of_fire]

I'm sure it will be... fun. /s

Let's leave it at that, eh?

[silveradept]

This feels like "I'm taking a week off, find someone else to do this thing" is an appropriate response to people who not only keep trying to make you do something you're not trained on, but that seem to be projecting their stresses about the thing into you as well.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah. If I had a week off the work would just be more urgent when I got back, as there's no one else to do it.

[silveradept]

Being indispensable in this manner is a curse.