Wednesday, April 22, 2009
woo hoo, woo hoo! crazy half turkey noises!
weekend comes a day early for me!
i am almost fully unencumbered until sunday. any other meetings i have will be about beer first, and if they want to talk about work, i will be drinking beer on the clock. their call, really.
that leaves us with unencumbered time to think. i am on the verge of becoming the sole male presence in the kitchen. i have known about it, but i am not sure if the full magnitude of this has been given its proper attention. i am honestly not sure how it is going to work. just like i thrive on the attention of women, women thrive on the attention of men. i am seriously thinking of suggesting that everyone have at least some overlap on a shift with me at some point during the week. i mean, i have jokingly suggested it, but maybe there would be some benefit. i just worry that some day i will come into work and find a huge pool of blood because one of these girls has actually torn someone apart. it is going to be like herding cats back there.
but what is it going to do to me? there is a good chance i will end up overcompensating and get myself into trouble. i will be in an evolutionary advantageous situation, and i imagine that will start triggering all sorts of instinctual social behaviors. it would be awkward if everytime the dairy guy showed up, i unconsciously took of my shirt and strutted around while turning my chest bright red by rushing blood too it to try and establish dominance. luckily i'm not a lizard or a bird or something, so i should be relatively safe, but the point still stands. that is only once a week though, and he brings me valuable foodstuffs to distribute to my flock. crisis averted... the dairy guy can stay at least. probably, it means a little more work, but that's ok. i'll earn more belly rubs than usual if i end up doing more. look look! i took out the trash! scratch me on that spot under my chin as a reward, i've been ever so good!
luckily i get along with everyone. this is all a intellectual discussion anyways because i am pretty much sequestered with my own tasks to attend to. i was thinking about this today, about how little contact i actually have with my coworkers. the people i work the closest with, i literally almost never see. if things are running completely smoothly, i do never see them. the baristas i have fleeting contact, and i spend a good majority of my day with my back turned to everyone else due to the positioning of my tiny little area. and when i'm busy, there is no room for chitchat. i have too much to do. i don't actually have the social pull to do more than nudge the mood here and there. kill a few minutes of work for them so they can get out of there with less mental strain.
it cracks me up, but if i were one of them i would be annoyed at the situation. i am annoyed at myself, because i gave myself unencumbered time to thing, and i ended up talking about work anyways.
weekend comes a day early for me!
i am almost fully unencumbered until sunday. any other meetings i have will be about beer first, and if they want to talk about work, i will be drinking beer on the clock. their call, really.
that leaves us with unencumbered time to think. i am on the verge of becoming the sole male presence in the kitchen. i have known about it, but i am not sure if the full magnitude of this has been given its proper attention. i am honestly not sure how it is going to work. just like i thrive on the attention of women, women thrive on the attention of men. i am seriously thinking of suggesting that everyone have at least some overlap on a shift with me at some point during the week. i mean, i have jokingly suggested it, but maybe there would be some benefit. i just worry that some day i will come into work and find a huge pool of blood because one of these girls has actually torn someone apart. it is going to be like herding cats back there.
but what is it going to do to me? there is a good chance i will end up overcompensating and get myself into trouble. i will be in an evolutionary advantageous situation, and i imagine that will start triggering all sorts of instinctual social behaviors. it would be awkward if everytime the dairy guy showed up, i unconsciously took of my shirt and strutted around while turning my chest bright red by rushing blood too it to try and establish dominance. luckily i'm not a lizard or a bird or something, so i should be relatively safe, but the point still stands. that is only once a week though, and he brings me valuable foodstuffs to distribute to my flock. crisis averted... the dairy guy can stay at least. probably, it means a little more work, but that's ok. i'll earn more belly rubs than usual if i end up doing more. look look! i took out the trash! scratch me on that spot under my chin as a reward, i've been ever so good!
luckily i get along with everyone. this is all a intellectual discussion anyways because i am pretty much sequestered with my own tasks to attend to. i was thinking about this today, about how little contact i actually have with my coworkers. the people i work the closest with, i literally almost never see. if things are running completely smoothly, i do never see them. the baristas i have fleeting contact, and i spend a good majority of my day with my back turned to everyone else due to the positioning of my tiny little area. and when i'm busy, there is no room for chitchat. i have too much to do. i don't actually have the social pull to do more than nudge the mood here and there. kill a few minutes of work for them so they can get out of there with less mental strain.
it cracks me up, but if i were one of them i would be annoyed at the situation. i am annoyed at myself, because i gave myself unencumbered time to thing, and i ended up talking about work anyways.
