Today, I noticed that the longer I work from home, the more inclined my mother is to interrupting it every five or ten minutes. She says I can stay online late to make it a full 8 hours, but then gets mad when I actually do so. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, as every morning since I started working from home, my mother interrupts me with her complaints about family members and old history. I'm not qualified to be a family therapist, and I need this job to pay my bills. She doesn't take the hint with my headphones on, but heaven help me if I interrupt her TV show later. FML
Today, after two years of working from home, and being bugged by a relative every five minutes as I tried to work, I turned the tables by asking her something. I promptly got chewed out for interrupting something she was doing. FML
Today, like every day for the past two years, my aged mother has sat complaining all day loudly about relatives who call too little or too much, about another package being a few days late, or her laptop and TV not working properly. All while I'm trying to quietly work from home. I'm about ready to jump off a bridge. FML
Today, my boss called me while I was working from home to bitch me out over being away from my computer for 49 minutes, when my lunch break is only 45 minutes, thus wasting another 13 minutes. My boss is known for spending hours online gaming from home during work hours. FML
Today, my mother complained all day while I'm trying to work from home. I started getting chest pains from the stress of everything having to be perfect or she has one of her meltdowns. FML
Today, after days of my wife nagging me, I started working on the flat pack furniture she ordered. Every twenty minutes, she interrupted me to demand I stop and help her with something trivial and irrelevant. Now I remember why I postpone projects as long as possible. FML
Today, it was one of those days when my housemates thinks they can bug me every five minutes when I'm trying to work from home. Doing this or talking about that, wrecking my train of thought on complicated work until it's a railyard of disaster. Is it five o'clock yet? FML
Today, it seems that I can't enjoy one fucking weekend without my mom finding work for me to do to take up my time, and I'm sick of it! FML
Today, my boss told me that my attitude to work is awesome and that he'd follow my example of coming in half-an-hour early every day from now on. I relish those 30 minutes as the only time I can get work done without him constantly interrupting me. So much for that. FML
Today, my mother once again interrupted me and talked over me, as though I wasn't saying anything at all. Then she wondered why I remained quiet after she was done talking about her mother doing that. Must run in the family. FML
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Bogrbon 27
I have this exact same problem with my wife and kid. It’s like: those are nice drapes you’re seeing online, or I’m glad you scored a goal in FIFA on the PlayStation, but I’m trying to work here...
Chazzster 32
OP, These are tough times. I suggest reminding Mom you are working and have things to get done. Hopefully you have your own room and computer - Close the door while working but come out for breaks. Hopefully that might help.
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Bogrbon 27
I have this exact same problem with my wife and kid. It’s like: those are nice drapes you’re seeing online, or I’m glad you scored a goal in FIFA on the PlayStation, but I’m trying to work here...
Chazzster 32
OP, These are tough times. I suggest reminding Mom you are working and have things to get done. Hopefully you have your own room and computer - Close the door while working but come out for breaks. Hopefully that might help.
Charlie Given 28
if you can't lock the door or go someplace else to work like a library then tell your mom with a Stern face to leave you the **** alone you're working and you don't want to get fired
RichardPencil 32
So that is between 48 and 96 interruptions. I love math!
lev 11
buy noise cancelling headphones and ignore her