We do not have a stressful job. We are not brain surgeons, or rocket scientists, or teachers. We’re not even working in an environment where deadlines exist. Yet, remarkably, we get stressed out while at work.
Perhaps this is because our cubby mate, the Sleeper, astounds us and makes us tense. Yesterday, he honestly asked if we were off for Halloween. The day before, he asked us how, if we have items shipped here, does the mailroom know it’s for us? Yesterday, he also asked us how it was outside when we went to lunch - which was odd because we hadn’t left our desk for more than 10 minutes, save for a meeting.
He then packed up his things, as is customary at 4:30; having worked a very full 6 hour day. Without calling us to let us know he was two hours late. But normally he comes in so late in the day, that 2 hours normal-time is like 15 minutes Sleeper-time.
This stresses us out a lot. We could go on for days about how he makes our eye twitch, but we’ve found that paging through sale sections on websites is actually quite distracting and calming.
Today, as he blindly sent us an email that literally had 6 numbers in it - with no explanation what it was he needed, or what the numbers even were - we opened ShopBop and looked at sale. We couldn’t deal with random numbers for information that isn’t ours, we don’t have access to, and we don’t worry about
Much to our surprise, among the bikinis, white pants, and espadrilles were these really cute Earnest Sewn jeans! Excellent! We love jeans on sale!
They come in nice washes! And most sizes! And bootcut! We love you, and thank you, pretty jeans for chilling us out.
Earnest Sewn Keatons, $59.40
-LB
Source: Things That Calm Us
