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July 8, 2004

The thing is ...

I'm not a gregarious, friendly person. I am happiest when I'm by myself or with my family.
I do just fine when I am flying to a client site on this coast or that coast - only have to be there for 4 days, no biggie, then I get to come home.
But I have been stuck here in KC for what - 2 weeks, 3 weeks? And one more week of hell at the office? Today, I found that I was physically nauseous about the idea of having to drive that damned 50 minutes into the city and to the most awful cubicle you can imagine. I was actually ill - dizzy, nauseous and even congested - talk about psychosomatic.

I have tried to explain this to my boss - let me work at home, please. The noise and distractions at the office keep me from being as productive as I can be.

There are mostly men there. They have very loud voices and even louder opinions - I can be working with a client on the phone and they don't fricking care. They are loud and obnoxious to the point where I have trouble concentrating on what I'm working on. And, to make it worse, most of them come in later than I do and leave earlier than I do.

But that doesn't get me anywhere because they can see my face when they are shooting the shit with each other. They know that I think they are unfucking believable slackers - they are running off to pick up their golf clubs at 2:30 pm - I am working.

It makes me so mad that my blood pressure goes up. If I work at home, all those pressures disappear - and I don't need to be in the office, I can do everything here.

Just letting off steam. Just wishing I was a man who does't let stuff like that bother me!

Posted by Beth at July 8, 2004 8:48 PM

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Posted by: BeeBee at July 9, 2004 6:20 AM