Is it just me, or does doing one productive thing at your government job make you feel like you’ve earned the rest of the day off?
Answered that one complex email? Hero status unlocked. 😅

Anyone else feel this way sometimes?

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Honestly, just getting up out of bed and making it to my workplace feels like an accomplishment some days 🤣 The morale has been super low lately, so it's unfortunate, but everyone is pretty much feeling the same way.

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Honestly so true 🤣 if I get out the door on time it's a win. It feels like we're all just dreading work these days.

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😂 this is way too relatable. I psych myself up for the littlest things, be it replying to an email or sitting through a tedious meeting. Afterwards I have no motivation or energy left for work. It's like I use it all up on what should be a trivial task and then give myself permission to coast the rest of the day.

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May our supervisors and managers never know 🙏🙏

It's funny, there are those days where if I can accomplish that one problematic task I feel like I just climbed El Capitan. But mostly there are days when the tasks just get ticked off one after another and they all just run together. Some days are just a blur that way.

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Also very valid, the blur together days are my favorites. They go so fast!

i recommend it and should have done it years before i retired. we had 22 months at home with covid and i worried about being productive so we got to keep working at home. then we got called back 3 days a week to the office. but i found it was only because a certain someone needed us to rent the space from a favored landlord. total BS.. once back to the office i slowed down so much i was bored. i put a timer on to do what i needed to do every X minutes and no more. at the end of the year they told me i did 11000 of the task. i was 2nd. i was shocked i was so productive. BAD me. wasting my effort. i asked my cubicle mate how many he did. was just 5000. i dont think i could go that slow in the office if i took 3 hour lunches. at home sure. but what a waste of effort.

thankfully my manager realized i was a good worker and for the last 6 months of my career he let me secretly work at home one more day a week then i took sick days off since i had soooo many and we only got paid out a third. he was a good manager

Wow! Sometimes it actually shocks me how little work some do while others carry the team. I definitely have my days that I slack though 🫣

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