Somehow this month has been so exhausting that the effect of vacation at the end of June is completely gone, and it feels more like I've been working without vacation for 6 months straight.
#WorkToot
Client suggests meeting at 14:30 to discuss issues.
I agree.
Client sends meeting request for 16:30.
I politely tell client to fck off.
My morning starts reviewing issues made by client on our documents. Client keeps demanding out of fucking scope items. Dude is damn lucky he's out of reach, because dude really really wakes my Spanish temper.
#WorkToot repairdesk is hot garbage
When the rest of the team treats a 90000m², 350m€ building project like they would a 90m³ 350k€ one, and you don't have the power to overrule the PM's decisions, and your subordinates do not give a fuck about delivering on time... what the fuck does one do?
Whoo! A useful meeting! #worktoot
Why the f*ck do you make a planning Gantt chart on inDesign? For a project that will last 2 years just for the design phase. Why? Why!
Another rough night of coughing, but at least I get to work from home today. As in, I have a single call in my diary this morning, and everything else is up to me.
Let's see what I manage to get done. I'm at a 3-day conference from Weds, so preserving my energy as much as possible. #WorkToot
What the f*ck is it with architecture offices that
- don't have decent meeting rooms
- do not care about acoustics (aka you don't understand shit)
- the rooms have wood school chairs (super comfy)
- don't have proper hybrid setting (audio / video)
- walking around the room means noise, and not talking towards mic
I have worked 9 hours putting off fires left and right, being pulled sideways, and managing input /output for 3 different projects.
I am mentally exhausted, physically rolled up.
And I'm going to teach yoga in an hour.
Seriously nobody cares anymore. #WorkToot
Spent five hours switching between four languages. My head feels like it's about to explode.
I am lucky that my work allows me to work from home as much as I want. On the other hand they also require a certain flexibility to go to different offices if needed. Which means this week I'll be working from home approx 3 days, and visiting 3 different offices in 3 cities.
How I greeted my coworkers on the planning meeting today
No, I won't take an old calculation based on an old version of a building design, apply to the new (completely different) design of the building and then apply a random reduction coefficient to take something else into account (that wasn't known at the time the first calculation was made) just because you want to save 15h.
And I will most certainly not stand behind such design approach when presented to the client.
Go fuck yourself.
Going to the office is:
1. Exhausting
2. Frustrating (traffic, chargers not working)
3. Annoying (coworkers being noisy)
4. Unproductive
Tell me again why there are such things as offices?
Sooo...
Boss asked me to consider taking big coordinating rol in big big project for the coming (at least) 2 years. Me being his preferred option above someone with more seniority than me, a higher level than me (2 levels higher), and that also speaks French.
He also said he was annoyed I was the best option because it means I would possibly have less time to do my other task (team lead).
It has taken me years to get to the point where I am confident establishing my boundaries at work, making them clear, and enforcing them.
I am at the point now where I get to coach colleagues in this same boundary setting & enforcing practice.
Adulting is scary, and sometimes I just keep faking it, it looks like I am making it.
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