Does anyone else get really anxious when you get downtime at work? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Like, I still have termination anxiety. When there's nothing obvious to do at work, I get really anxious, like there's something I'm forgetting to do.

What should be relaxing is a source of dread.

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[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

On quiet shifts when I worked at McDonald's, we'd deliberately dirty up the work surfaces so we could look busy when a floor manager came by — because otherwise they'd find some awful/dangerous job for you to do instead