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This is not about my current stress load, so much as it is about the ways that certain factors can stress us.
I don't like the cold. I have difficulty with air blowing on me, and I especially dislike cold air blowing on me. My office, of course, is always cold. Recently it got really bad. I called Facilities to look into this. I was wondering if something was actually wrong. But I don't mean to complain about that, specifically. I want to say that this unpleasant environment is, itself a form of stress. I mean, I'm wearing layers, and my hands are cold, and I have this chilled air blowing on my head. It's uncomfortable, to say the least. I have to sit in an uncomfortable place for eight hours. That is an additional stress. It makes me not want to be there. It makes me want to leave. It makes me think angry thoughts about how our workplace are set up and biases that might occur. It's just one more item on the list of things I hate about my job. Oh, and then I think more unhappy thoughts about how other workplaces would be no different.
I use CAD programs at work - 3D modeling of industrial products. A little over a year ago, something happened with the network, where things became very slow. My CAD program became extremely slow. Apparently, many of its functions somehow access the network. This was very frustrating. Things that used to take ten seconds suddenly started taking several minutes. I had to start coming up with alternative ways to work. I'd plan other tasks while my computer was thinking about things. I'd make lists of the parts I'd need, and copy them into nearby folders for quicker recovery. I wanted to call our company's helpdesk about this problem, but I didn't think they'd find a problem with the general network slowness (why does it take five seconds to delete a 100 kb file?), so they'd assume the problem was with the CAD, which they can't help with. And we have no maintenance contract with the CAD provider, so I'd just be screwed.
Anyway, my point is that this slowness was stressful. It was like a weight on my chest. And again, it brought about thoughts of frustration and anger.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a big network outage in the building. IT scrambled to fix, and when they did, the network was back to its expected speed. It's so nice! I no longer have to use the workarounds. I like working in CAD again. I feel like I can breathe again, and I can work efficiently. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a solution for the cold air. They might be able to set the vent over my head to not open all the way. We'll see.
I don't like the cold. I have difficulty with air blowing on me, and I especially dislike cold air blowing on me. My office, of course, is always cold. Recently it got really bad. I called Facilities to look into this. I was wondering if something was actually wrong. But I don't mean to complain about that, specifically. I want to say that this unpleasant environment is, itself a form of stress. I mean, I'm wearing layers, and my hands are cold, and I have this chilled air blowing on my head. It's uncomfortable, to say the least. I have to sit in an uncomfortable place for eight hours. That is an additional stress. It makes me not want to be there. It makes me want to leave. It makes me think angry thoughts about how our workplace are set up and biases that might occur. It's just one more item on the list of things I hate about my job. Oh, and then I think more unhappy thoughts about how other workplaces would be no different.
I use CAD programs at work - 3D modeling of industrial products. A little over a year ago, something happened with the network, where things became very slow. My CAD program became extremely slow. Apparently, many of its functions somehow access the network. This was very frustrating. Things that used to take ten seconds suddenly started taking several minutes. I had to start coming up with alternative ways to work. I'd plan other tasks while my computer was thinking about things. I'd make lists of the parts I'd need, and copy them into nearby folders for quicker recovery. I wanted to call our company's helpdesk about this problem, but I didn't think they'd find a problem with the general network slowness (why does it take five seconds to delete a 100 kb file?), so they'd assume the problem was with the CAD, which they can't help with. And we have no maintenance contract with the CAD provider, so I'd just be screwed.
Anyway, my point is that this slowness was stressful. It was like a weight on my chest. And again, it brought about thoughts of frustration and anger.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a big network outage in the building. IT scrambled to fix, and when they did, the network was back to its expected speed. It's so nice! I no longer have to use the workarounds. I like working in CAD again. I feel like I can breathe again, and I can work efficiently. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a solution for the cold air. They might be able to set the vent over my head to not open all the way. We'll see.
