Bore-out (look)

Where the author comes to narrate you, with the humor and the cynicism that one knows him, his typical day in his job with the con.

I arrive at the office almost always at the same time, that is to say 8:30. I unpack my business, sit in front of my PC and reactivate it. First desperate reflex, I look at the messages that have arrived in my Outlook BAL since the day before. There are ... two, a union leaflet and an article of com 'of a service I do not know. I read them diagonally. It is 8:39. I log in to the internal instant messenger and ask my remote team if all goes well on our "technical perimeter". I am told "RAS" is the flat calm. The day is long. It is 8:41.

I'm going to say hello to colleagues and to my boss. They do not look much busier than me, it discusses the game of the day before, the kids of it, the car down that one. I then go to the little kitchen of the agency to prepare a tea. Alas, nobody on the spot to discuss, I am obliged to return alone in my office with my burning mug ... it is 8:57.

The discomfort is still hugging me at this precise time, a little before 9am. I open my agenda (Outlook again), just to pretend, I know that I have nothing scheduled for today, except for lunch at 12:30, the "short loop" of 15h, and the end of the day at 17:30. Only eight hours and thirty minutes to kill!

Because, even if we have nothing to do, we must give the illusion of the opposite and take care of his messaging / electronic agenda achieves this goal. But beware, if by the greatest chance, an email had arrived, it should not be answered immediately, your interlocutor would understand then that, like him, you have nothing else to do than scrutinize your letters Box. To hide the emptiness of its function is a task that requires finesse and tactics!

So I start by rereading the five mails received the day before (big day), which I know almost by heart since I have read them thirty times each yesterday. Not serious, glasses adjusted on the nose, I act as if these emails had just arrived, I take a serious and serious, I analyze the situation! I decide to put three in one of the myriad subfolders of my mail that all have super "corporate" names like: Planning, Quality, Projects, Improvement Sheets, Security, Process and my favorite "Urgent" in which I never drop anything. In this type of job, it is essential to stay well organized, mainly because it has the great advantage of taking time (and time, we have to sell): you have to create the subfolders, find them a relevant name, think about what we will put in, archive old emails, etc. It's a real job! Casually, it is already 9:32.

It's time to go pee and prepare a second cup of tea. To be continued…