*Turns everything to maximum and sits listening to the result for a few moments*
So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like.
I feel I should be responding to this like a horror movie with clowns in it.
So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like.
I feel I should be responding to this like a horror movie with clowns in it.
I had to unPavlov myself when my phone rang during home office. As soon as it rang, I assumed it was trouble and wished it would go away. Now I just answer, and if it's trouble, at least it doesn't bother me more than it should.
Same goes with positive desires. I had to learn to enjoy working from home as long as possible, and not stressing because we would return to the office eventually. Home office has ended for me, but the last couple of months were less stressful because I stopped wishing for it to last more.
"When I see something like 'Can I call you?', it implies to me that there's something really important you need to tell me, that's too important to send over text. I know you don't mean it that way, but it's very scary to me in the absence of more information. Can you please include a reason why you'd like to talk next time you text?"
Once my folks understood that they were putting across the subtext of a death in the family, they started adding why they wanted to call!
The next time it happened, I clued my folks in to the subtext of that message for people of my generation. They were horrified and apologized profusely. They've also never done it since.