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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I realized I could say nothing in my home without being interrupted, talked over, or the subject derailed into a 30 minutes monologue by my housemates. And they wonder why I'm so quiet all the time… 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, my colleague came back from vacation so I no longer have to do her job on top of mine. My bosses saw this as the perfect occasion to barge into my office every five minutes to hand me tasks. When I asked for a ten-minute break to do a task that needed concentration, they barged in again after five minutes. FML
Today, I have a huge work project which absolutely requires a healthy amount of working at home to get done in time. This wouldn't be a problem normally. Except, thanks to my roommate's noisy dogs, I no longer have a "quiet zone" where I can buckle down on things and not be disturbed. FML
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
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, my boss rang me for the 5th time on my day off. Frustrated I pushed 'ignore' and yelled a string of obscenities at my phone. Turns out I pushed 'talk'. 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, like every day, my coworker showed up thirty minutes late, sat down for thirty more checking email while I got the morning work done alone, listening to her bitch about how much she hates her job and wants to go home. My coworkers criticized me for being moody, and praised her for being the best. FML
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
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Marcella1016 32
Have you told your housemate you need peace and quiet to work and can’t be interrupted? And when the direct approach doesn’t work, try headphones - I used to find music distracting also but discovered ambient, wordless music that actually helps me focus rather than distracts me. This could have the dual purpose of tuning out your housemate and signaling to them that you’re busy and shouldn’t be interrupted. Also, assuming you don’t share a room, try working from your room rather than in a common area, with a note on your door not to be disturbed. But ultimately, I think you should really verbally clarify to your roommate that you need peace and quiet. Hopefully it works. People can be so inconsiderate and it drives me up the wall! Good luck!
mike3775 39
And if none of those work, a simple “shut the @$%& up” yelled at the top of the lungs would also work.
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Marcella1016 32
Have you told your housemate you need peace and quiet to work and can’t be interrupted? And when the direct approach doesn’t work, try headphones - I used to find music distracting also but discovered ambient, wordless music that actually helps me focus rather than distracts me. This could have the dual purpose of tuning out your housemate and signaling to them that you’re busy and shouldn’t be interrupted. Also, assuming you don’t share a room, try working from your room rather than in a common area, with a note on your door not to be disturbed. But ultimately, I think you should really verbally clarify to your roommate that you need peace and quiet. Hopefully it works. People can be so inconsiderate and it drives me up the wall! Good luck!
mike3775 39
And if none of those work, a simple “shut the @$%& up” yelled at the top of the lungs would also work.