2 hours? That sounds marvelous! Right now I get all caffeinated and then tether myself to a headset for 8 hours lol
That’s why I made my work buy me a wireless headset.
That way when I’m locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about I can at least get up and make myself a few cups of coffee
locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about
You are living my nightmare.
Do you ever have to note or recall information afterwards? Because for me it wouldn’t be the sitting in a call for 5 hours part that would be the problem, it would be someone asking me to tell them anything that happened in it that would be the problem. I couldn’t even tell you who was in it
What headset are you using? I’ve got a big ass nose cancelling headset I use on my personal computer, but it’s a bit much for work - especially since I have to be on camera occasionally.
So you’re telling me there’s are jobs where i don’t have to do anything for 5 hours at a time?
No there are jobs that have 5 hour meetings while you watch your backlog pile up an extra 5 hours
They won’t give us wireless ones unless there’s some kind of medical exception… The managers get them but we don’t. I would buy my own but every time I try to use any of my own equipment IT freaks the fuck out about it
We learned the magic words at my company.
Health and safety
Say that and they back down.
My work take h&s super serious. He’ll just today the upper management held a 90 min meeting right across lunch time that included a segment on how important it is that you get away from your PC during lunch.
I see your caffeine and raise with amphetamines.
For the ADHD crowd this is often literally how it works.
No stimulants? My restless leg will shake this whole building down. With stimulants? I can sit there at my desk, happy as a clam.
My understanding is that caffeine doesn’t give you energy but instead blocks the sense of tiredness.
Basically carbs and fat give you energy, if we’re talking the literal term. I think protein does too but it’s less.
But stimulants do unlock mental resources. I believe caffeine induces a fight or flight state (what I’ve heard; haven’t studied this), one aspect of which is the body decides to make more energy available at the cost of faster breakdown.
Dopaminergic stimulants give your body the sense it’s pursuing something important. So the same zap of released resources called “motivation” that you’d get if you suddenly realized your favorite person in the world is outside, you can also get by taking adderall or cocaine.
Only if you take it once though. If you drink coffe regularly, you only get withdrawal symptoms if you have none instead. Coffeine has no stimulating effect if taken regularly.
it’s interesting seeing a bunch of anxious people go exacerbate anxiety with caffeine. so many fuckin annoying encounters
I just got to the dentist after having too much coffee, so this definitely tracks
