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2 hours? That sounds marvelous! Right now I get all caffeinated and then tether myself to a headset for 8 hours lol

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That’s why I made my work buy me a wireless headset.

That way when I’m locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about I can at least get up and make myself a few cups of coffee

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locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about

You are living my nightmare.

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I’m living myown nightmare

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So you’re telling me there’s are jobs where i don’t have to do anything for 5 hours at a time?

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No there are jobs that have 5 hour meetings while you watch your backlog pile up an extra 5 hours

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They won’t give us wireless ones unless there’s some kind of medical exception… The managers get them but we don’t. I would buy my own but every time I try to use any of my own equipment IT freaks the fuck out about it

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We learned the magic words at my company.

Health and safety

Say that and they back down.

My work take h&s super serious. He’ll just today the upper management held a 90 min meeting right across lunch time that included a segment on how important it is that you get away from your PC during lunch.

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Do you ever have to note or recall information afterwards? Because for me it wouldn’t be the sitting in a call for 5 hours part that would be the problem, it would be someone asking me to tell them anything that happened in it that would be the problem. I couldn’t even tell you who was in it

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I have trigger words that snap my attention into the call. I support the infrastructure for a cloud app. Most calls are on the app layer so I couldn’t care less. It’s only when the infrastructure gets mentioned I need to listen.

Yes I do take notes

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it’s interesting seeing a bunch of anxious people go exacerbate anxiety with caffeine. so many fuckin annoying encounters

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Yeah they really should be on Adderall like a fucking adult.

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Adderall is so much more chill than caffeine

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Or just…don’t,?

Ffs grow up and find some self control people.

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You just put so many psychiatrists out of business

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Self control is a road to many abilities, some of which are considered unnatural, such as not drinking coffee. My personal favorite is to connect to points in space time together, to create a hole to crawl from one side to the other, for example, to connect the university of Tubingen and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

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The amount of people addicted to caffeine who don’t even know it is crazy high.

The costs of withdrawing for some are higher than others, so for these people quitting isn’t just a day or two of headaches, and possibly their life doesn’t afford them the luxury of going through the pain and low productivity

Many factors play into it rather than just low self control, in case you’re wondering why you got down voted.

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I see your caffeine and raise with amphetamines.

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For the ADHD crowd this is often literally how it works.

No stimulants? My restless leg will shake this whole building down. With stimulants? I can sit there at my desk, happy as a clam.

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