#Administration Tasks

[vaynglories]

laerryn coramar-seelie did nothing wrong actually. who among us has not known the pain of opening up task manager and seeing some fuckass Mystery Program eating up all their available processing power like hell yeah girl i'd have blasted that damn tree too

[anonymusbosch]

oh no, i established myself as Capable Of and Willing To Perform some minor annoying administrative tasks at work and now am being tossed additional requests to perform said tasks

i know that in a strict financial view it makes sense to spend 20 minutes of junior engineer time on mundane-annoying-task than 20 minutes of senior staff engineer time but have you considered: I Don't Like It

[princesscallyie]

Ehhhhh, job is turning out to be somewhat lame now. Just had a live webinar with a big sponsor just explode.

[kill-your-darlings-art]

My computer just decided to straight up...delete my drawing program???

Like, all of my documents are still there, and so is Clip Studio, but the actual drawing program, Clip Studio Paint, it just...no longer exists on my computer.

And of course, I didn't figure this out until after two hours of getting pissed off tryinb to figure out why CSP wasn't opening my goddamn drawing.

[bland-observer-disregard]

DATE: 2025-05-04 ADMINISTRATOR: DISREGARD TARGET: OBSERVER SYSTEM: DYSFUNCTIONAL TASK: RESET INSTRUCTIONS:

[queerofthedagger]

the problem with making any decisions regarding work is that at the base of it all I Simply Do Not Want To Work.

[frowardthinker]

Me, chanting:

I am not afraid of emails.

I am not afraid of emails.

I am not afraid of emails.

*a notification pops up*

Me, crying, opening outlook:

IM NOT AFRAID OF EMAILS GODDAMMIT

[dimsilver]

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[danieyells]

Have you ever tried to do something on your computer and it says something like "You need administrator permission to perform this action" except you're the only user on the computer and it still says you can't?

That's how it feels for me to try and do things most of the time with adhd. Because it's something I want to do or even need to do, and am fully capable of doing unrestricted. . .but there's something preventing me from doing so until my brain decides 'okay, now is fine'.

With computers the thing is usually 'you can't move/delete this file because it's open in another program' but for some reason it doesn't want to give you that specific error message and it just says you don't have permission. Usually if you close whatever you have open it'll let you go just fine. But it's not that easy with my brain. Usually my brain has some indiscernible reason that I'm helpless to deal with. It stops me from replying to messages, doing things that are fun, cleaning up, taking care of myself and my surroundings. If i could figure out what's preventing me from 'giving myself permission' to perform a task I'm sure it'd be a lot easier.

But I can't.

So I don't. I just keep waiting until the 'administrator' gives me permission.

[ley-med]

So stressed out, I have so goddamn much to do if I stayed home for a work I still couldn't catch up... And some of these could be solved with just an email or more accurately with a phone call, but why do the anxiety reach motivational levels and make inspiration hit only on Sunday nights

[lupismaris]

Love watching a member of leadership make an ass of himself in the middle of an interview, undermine my role in this office, and then have to ultimately salvage the entire dialogue myself

[freepassbound]

Merry Christmas to you 🎄🎁😊

30+38 :)

30: What I hate the most about work/school

There is far more administrative busywork at this school than there ever was at my school - stuff that does not contribute to the teaching of children (which is kind of the point). It drags on me.

38: My childhood career choice

I don't know that I ever really had anything beyond the cliché dreams of being a professional athlete (baseball first, I would think, segueing into basketball) as an actual child... by teenage years, I was leaning toward architecture or something with computers.

[anonymousdormhacks]

Modern day living is an incredibly slow torture method. Physical fear is downright easy to manage. Public speaking? No problem. Spiders? Sure! Driving? Less enthused about that one, but it's no biggie👌 What in god's name am I supposed to do with Email Dread? My heart doesn't pound, it just manifests are a slimy horror. It's like the occult ghost bad vibes that are caused by sound frequencies we can't hear. A speech will end, a drive stops at a destination, and spiders can be let outside. I will continue getting emails until the end of time

[butchshepherd]

I've been thinking to myself hey I maybe I should email this breeder, just bring up our potential interest in a future puppy and also I guess ask if they think their dogs could have the potential for assistance work, but first of all I might as well have never written an email in my life bc I have no idea how to go about this!!! And second of all, especially for the latter but I could always leave that out for the first time lol, if they answer negatively in some way I would likely not recover (I am not a well adjusted individual and rsd is a lovely little thing). I know myself well enough to know I would find it very discouraging and the embarrassment would probably also make it harder to contact them in the future 🥲

[gayfranzkafka]

i rolled up sprinkler lines for like four hours today which we all agreed was the harder of the two tasks we split between us today (the other task was literally moving rocks) anyway that feeling when you are so tired but also so dirty so you have to lie on the floor and summon the energy to shower before you can get in bed & take a nap

[anonymusbosch]

occasionally find myself thinking "how could someone possibly want enjoy FEA. or accounting. or wrangling enterprise software. it would kill my brain to death and i would die. i melt into a puddle if i have to deal with enterprise software for more than 20 minutes at a time." and then I am reminded by my friends that I "enjoy writing technical reports" and that "this is because there is something wrong with me" and I have to cede the point