I've had, it has to be said, a horrid day. I'm on a train at 7am, heading Northwards. I'm lugging a laptop, which is a clear sign I'm not just out stretching my legs.
The call centre is a hovel, I'm scrabbling under the desks for a LAN cable, 'cause there's no spare seats. To dial in to a 'team meeting' - team meetings are the height of indignity. I can accept updating the Board, but my peers!?!?! Gah!
After 2 hours of that torment, it's back-to-back meetings for the rest of the day - punctuated by a limp sandwich in the cafeteria. Depressingly the meetings are on issues I actually have to care about. I get out at 5, missing my connection and facing a 2 hour wait on a bleak station platform.
SO, a day out of the office with no restaurants, galleries, or cocktails in sight....It's a sobering moment. I think I may have had a, mercifully brief, experience of 'work'
How do people cope?
