How can sitting in a cubicle for 8 hours be so tiring?

[bicentennial_baby]

Seriously, I was never this tired when I worked in a factory, hauling heavy items and running around on 2nd shift till the wee hours of the morning.

:crazy:

Will one of you come clean this place up before Sniffa gets home? kthxbai.

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[RadiationTherapy]

1. It's a tube painlessly slid through the back of your neck and into your pineal gland while you work.

They suck the third-eye juice right out of you and rub it into their skin (or else they get the hose again). This gives them diamond encrusted skin so they can function in the daylight.

Also, I may be high.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. It's all those other cube people, breathing in the oxygen and expelling

all that carbon monoxide...I swear it is, because I used to get that way too.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Seriously...

By the time I get home, I don't even want to look at my computer. Ugh.

Life of an unpaid research assistant. Yay.

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

3. a body in motion stays in motion.

the cube farm can be tedious.

[DeepBlueC]

5. I find it really wearying to be confined...

I used to take every opportunity to deliver messages in person rather than by memo, just to get on my feet, but email pretty much exposes that sham. In fact I think I took to "having" to seek consultations with editors that I really did not need, or did not need right then. I usually saw them at lunch. But editors are fun to talk to. Beyond that there is always peeing every 20 minutes. Even xeroxing has been pretty much wiped out as a pretext. That's the problem ... the shrinkage of pretext. My brain works better when I have frequent opportunity to move around. If I am stuck writing, I pace to compose. But I'm an old hand; I rarely get that stuck.

[DS1]

6. take walks every hour or so to somewhere that has a view of anything

even if it means going upstairs in a stairwell. does wonders for me, resets everything in my head

[bicentennial_baby]

9. I'm on the top floor

9th. Not too hard to do, in the middle of downtown Boston. :D

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[leftofthedial]

7. computers whirring everywhere around you?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Eight hours in a cubicle today

converting documents to structured FrameMaker, an application from the depths of Hell, made me feel like I'd run a marathon.

I feel your pain...

[bicentennial_baby]

11. I was researching arcane statistics

on the Internet. Sure, it's easy to find your favorite obscure film on IMDB...but not so much when you're trying to find the average daily ridership of the Boston commuter ferries.

It's done though. Whew! :D

[HopeHoops]

10. It drains your soul. The very fabric of the cubicle sucks out your life force. FLEE - RUN AWAY!

"Well it's the meanest rabbit YOU'VE ever seen!"

[margotb822]

12. boredom is tiring

I don't know why, but I feel the same way.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. I should be kinda interested, but...

I'm just not into the dressing up, sitting still for 8 hours thing. Economic research is fun, usually for me, but not lately. Hopefully my new project will be more engaging. :)

[City of Mills]

14. Your blood settles in your feet

And so your brain...well...there's only so much to go around. You'll feel more alert if you stand on your head at least five minutes a day but that presents a whole slew of other issues you may have to deal with!

[MissMillie]

15. oh... the monotony

:sigh: