so a good friend of mine, g, is getting married in april. he's a great friend, smart guy and i'm glad for him that he's found someone that he wants to spend the rest of his life with.
now, g's fiancee (n) is nice, funny and even a bit snarky at times, so we like her. unfortunately, neither the mrs nor i have spent much time with her as yet, so when the mrs got an invitation to her bridal shower for sunday, we were both a bit surprised.
the shower's not a surprise to (n) apparently, so last time i saw g, he mentioned that the guys are gonna hang out during the shower.
normally, i'd be there with bells* on. but i'm gonna have to pass.
see, i got an e-mail from the guys for whom i'm doing that database project, so it looks like my sunday is gonna consist of work.
frankly, that sucks--although it's trivial compared to the one day i had last year.
of course, b/c it's me after all, i figured that this would be an entertaining question for us to throw around. what are some of your "you know work is too much when" (YKWISTMW) war stories?
ed
*pickers: or if you prefer, "on wheels". :>
silverwhisper posted on Feb 22, 2008
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crybabylu said on Feb 22, 2008....
"You know work is too much".....when you pass yourself coming and going.
When you don't even have time for a shower, or to wash your hair, or to do your laundry, or you get use to sleeping in a chair and it is hard to get reaccustomed to your bed, and then as Patrick Swayze so excellently demonstrated In "Black Dog". I use that example because Papa Jack and I really related to that movie, being retired truck drivers. He usually drove during the day, and I drove at night, couldn't do it again if my life depended on it.
dee
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the_infernal_optimist said on Feb 22, 2008....
Ew, I remember that day last year!
I don't know that I can really weigh in -- my last "real" job was working at a campus writing center while carrying a full, sometimes over-hours load of classes. And my boss had me do the weirdest stuff instead of real work sometimes, like complete this paint-by-numbers calendar she wanted to hang one day and drilling brackets to hold a purple strand of lights she just had to have up right then the next. :-p It was enough to drive a sane person crazy (luckily, I don't think I qualify :-D).
I guess YKWITMW you wear all the hats and none of 'em fit.
~Infernal
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polarheart said on Feb 22, 2008....
You know work is too much when. . .you have to drag your small child out of his cozy bed at 6am in mid-winter in order to get him to nursery school by 7:45am; so that you can get your 8am train to be on time for work at 9am; and to your child has to spend over 10 hours at nursery before you can get back to him at 6pm. -
polarheart said on Feb 22, 2008....
Sorry, I got cut off. . .I wanted to say, sorry to hear that you are going to miss out on some fun with you friend. Hope you get some good chill time soon! :-) -
wombat said on Feb 22, 2008....
When you start having panic attacks--and have a secret hope that when you get there, the building has burned down overnight..... -
crybabylu said on Feb 22, 2008....
Wombat, that was rich! I'm laughing my head off at that one. Good going! -
wombat said on Feb 22, 2008....
crybabylu: Just being honest! And one place where I worked, a tornado finally came and took the half of the building where I had recently worked. Thank goodness no one was hurt. They evacuated everyone in time to the other safer side. I always wondered if had I been there, for some reason they wouldn't have decided to do that--as in "Oh it's just wombat back there".....ha.... -
pickersplock said on Feb 22, 2008....
I've got my wheels on!!!!Guess what I did the other day, ed?I went to the laundry room in our house, grabbed a basket, brought it upstairs and started to fold.I finally got to the last shirt, looked at Mr. P, and said, "I think I've been working too much, I just folded the dirty laundry."How's that? -
Peanuthead said on Feb 22, 2008....
Hahaha Wombat! Good one! I'm beat hands down, can't think up a better one to top that!Oh mayyyybeee, give me time to cook up something witty!(walks out scratching head) -
uniquely-ironic said on Feb 22, 2008....
"you know work is too much when"........ you answer the phone with your company name. Also, if you check your work schedule before confirming personal social events.With work and work at home it's highly unusual for me to really sit down and rest any time before 9:30 or 10:00 pm. There's meals to cook, house to clean, laundry to wash, etc. -
fearing said on Feb 22, 2008....
......when you are so sick of hearing "Ms. Fearing! Ms. Fearing!" so you tellthe children they have to call you "Your highness" or "Oh beautiful one".(the kids think that is hilarious and I suddenly don't mind hearing my name ALL the time) -
Zayda said on Feb 22, 2008....
[rolls eyes]
Seriously, your complaining about your work being to much because you are losing one Sunday afternoon?
You know your work is too much when you work 8 hours at work 3 days a week only to come home, pick up your child from daycare, make dinner, spend an hour with your child, and sit down to work for another three to four hours before going to bed. And when you spend the two days a week that you do not go in to work working from the time you get up at 6 a.m., with the exception of you the 15 minutes it takes you to get your child to school, until you pick your child up from school at 4:00 p.m. And when you spend at least half or more of every weekend day working.
You really have nothing to complain about, Silver. -
skald said on Feb 22, 2008....
One of my ignorant stupid questions again . what is a bridal shower? Is it like a hen party? -
polarheart said on Feb 22, 2008....
Skaldikins, I think your comment was perhaps meant for Uniquely-Ironic's blog, but I will PM you an answer :-) -
quietone said on Feb 22, 2008....
Pickers ~ now that is what I call really baaad!! LOL folding dirty laundry! haha...I am lucky if I fold the clean stuff before it winkles.
work is too much when you start having dreams about the place (should say nightmares)
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pickersplock said on Feb 22, 2008....
What can I say? -
Zayda said on Feb 22, 2008....
You know work is too much when you apparently can no longer distinguish between the proper use of "you're" and "your" or "to" and "too". -
polarheart said on Feb 22, 2008....
Sorry, I just need to apologise to Skald and Ed, that I was not thinking straight. . .Ed, Skald's question was directly relating to your blog post and I stupidly got it mixed up in my head with U-I's post. So sorry guys. . .I'll just crawl back into my hole now (Polar leaves feeling embarassed) :-/ -
fearing said on Feb 22, 2008....
Polar, Don't be embarrassed - I thought that too when I first saw the comment. I'm always clicking on the wrong blog to comment on. I try to remember to check before I hit the "submit comment" button.
Now I'm wondering what a hen party is. Maybe Skald will tell us.
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polarheart said on Feb 22, 2008....
Fearing, they have hen parties here in UK, which is really the female version of a stag party or bachelors party. Thanks Sweety! -
fearing said on Feb 22, 2008....
That's what a hen party is? Thanks for telling me. Now I know.
Sorry for hijacking Ed.......
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CreativeWoman said on Feb 22, 2008....
When it all is just one seamless day hopelessly repeated over and over.
CW
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Twylarants said on Feb 22, 2008....
Polar, Unique, and Wombie got it right as far as I'm concerned.
When you get out of work at 9:30pm and have to be back in work at 6am...
When customers ask 'Don't you ever go home?"...
When you work 6 days before getting 1 day off...
When you can't remember the last time you were off on a Saturday or Sunday...
When you never have off Saturday AND Sunday...
When you work every single holiday, every year...
When you have to be in work midnight Dec. 25th every year for inventory...
When you have to work both the weekend before and the weekend after your 5 day vacation...
When you and your co-workers refer to yourselves as "the walking dead"...
When you and your co-workers don't say "good morning" to each other, because it's not...
When someone who's leaving the company is congratulated for "going over the wall"...
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Kilgore_V_Trout said on Feb 22, 2008....
And yet Zayda still has time to turn out one of the most prolific blogs in all of blogdom.
I thought she was a university professor? Oh, I see she corrected her grammar errors later in the scroll.
I think she's trying to play too much when she should be working. Ah, work. I remember that. -
Lucytorial said on Feb 22, 2008....
my husband works from home ~ too much work is when its 9:30pm at night and he's still showing me what he's doing.
For me too much work is when I've forgotten what my friends look like. I remember a time i was working 60 plus a week now thankfully I don't.
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dailyachesandpains said on Feb 22, 2008....
Well, since I'm a SAHM for "work" I have to sayYKYWTMW you can't wait for Noggin to come out with their next new show.You have no idea what "real food" is anymore.10 minute meals start to taste better than gourmet.Daily -
seawitch said on Feb 22, 2008....
When everyone knows your name and you've got no idea who they are.
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lfbno7 said on Feb 23, 2008....
You know work is too much when you realize that if you had a couch delivered to your room and slept there, working through all your waking hours, the work still wouldn't be finished. -
silverwhisper said on Feb 23, 2008....
dee: never did see that movie so i'll take that on faith. i know the thing about meeting yourself coming and going, though--been there.
infernal: heh... that's really bizarre about that campus writing center boss--WTF?! i like that line about the hats, too. :>
polar: i hate it when SC cuts me off, too! you can get to tigger by 6 pm though? that's actually pretty impressive, if you ask me! and yeah, i hope i can sneak that in soon, too. :> o, and don't worry, no apologies are either needed or desired. :>
wombat: heh...i don't get panic attacks, but yeah, i've had that feeling once or twice... :>
pickers: i thought you'd get a kick out of that... :D omg, that's hysterical about folding the dirty laundry! bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
peanuthead: well, if you come up with something, this'll still be here. :>
u-i: a friend of mine once answered the phone at home that way--when our mutual friend (we all knew one another from work) called him. :D and i too have had to consult my work schedule when trying to schedule personal stuff. :D
fearing: heh...i really like that! :D
z: i already said it's trivial in comparison to other things. :p funny thing, i find that no matter how fatigued, i tend not to lose my sense of grammar.
skald: a bridal shower is an american (?) tradition, in which usually someone who knows the bride (usually a friend, sometimes family member) throws her a surprise party to which the female wedding guests are invited. there are a number of traditions re: gifts, but i suspect that the other ladies here are a better source for that information than i am. :> it's distinct from the hen party (aka, bachelorette party) in that it's generally less informal, i understand.
quietone: o, i've had that more times than i care to admit about my last job...[shudders]
CW: most of the last 2 years of my last job were like that!
twyla: really nothing to say in response but damn! and that "going over the wall" line--i know that one! :>
kilgore: i haven't seen you around in a long, long time. hope you've been well.
tobi-lee: i'm trying to remember the last time a 60 hour week wasn't normal for one of my jobs. i'm having trouble, i'll confess--the new one isn't but it's too new to draw any meaningful comparisons...
daily: heh...i can't imagine forgetting what real food tastes like, i gotta confess, but then again, i'm not a parent so i suppose that's different.
seawitch: that happens to me pretty regularly on most days--o wait, but i'm really forgetful... :>
lbf: you know, it took me a while to understand that work is never finished, merely passed to someone else.
OK, so my horror story--and no, it isn't the day that didn't end. i used to work for a division of a major financial services company. we were part of a start-up that was more or less acquired by that firm. we lived a ways away from their offices, so we had to commute. that commute consisted of: waking up at 5 to drive half an hour to reach a van that departed at 6:30 sharp. we were expected at our desks by 8 and worked until 6 or so. we piled into the van 6:30 and finally dropped off around 8:30 and were home around 9:30. that went on for a month until local offices were found. o, and the van was driven by the chauffeur from hell.
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HairSprayGirl said on Feb 23, 2008....
Hi ed :) In my case, I know work is too much when I actually go a whole day (sometimes more than one) without eating. Or when I start to find little tiny hairs in my apartment,or stuck in my skin,sometimes even under my nails! I know, that sounds disgusting but the hair business can be a gross one. I thought of writing in to Dirty Jobs to see if they wanted to come to the shop for a day and see the ugly side of a beauty salon. haha. -
silverwhisper said on Feb 23, 2008....
HSG, nice to see you again--it's been a while! wow, hair under your nails, huh? i wouldn't have thought you'd see that!
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HairSprayGirl said on Feb 23, 2008....
yeah, no one probably would. It's not the most apetizing thing. Nice to see you too Ed! -
silverwhisper said on Feb 23, 2008....
heh..."appetizing" is definitely not the word that comes to mind! :D
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HairSprayGirl said on Feb 23, 2008....
you have no idea how many times i deleted that word and retyped it. is there spell check anywhere????!! haha. -
silverwhisper said on Feb 24, 2008....
[chuckle]
you know, if you use firefox, there is a spell check feature available for that. :>
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vacantmind said on Feb 24, 2008....
You know work is too much when you set your alarm to catch a 15 minute nap and you are thinking its going to help you out alot.
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silverwhisper said on Feb 25, 2008....
oo, that's a bad one!
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Kilgore_V_Trout said on Feb 25, 2008....
Well? I'm dead, dammit. -
silverwhisper said on Feb 26, 2008....
[monty pyton]bring out your dead![/monty python] -
Fallyn said on Feb 27, 2008....
you know you're working to much when you spend more days sick at home than at work.
(not my current situation but i've been there)
and currently ....you know you're working to much when a ten minute nap in the car while waiting for school to let out feels like a trip to a spa compared to the rest of your day.
i could go into more detail......but then i might start getting grouchy.
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