Tomorrow is Friday, the end of my second week back at work and guess what? Still stress-free! I expect it to last until about mid-August when everyone is back and things ramp up and the crazy hits the fan again. Best things about working in July in Sweden (when you’ve already had your vacation):
NO traffic on the highway
NO cars in the parking lot
NO people in the office (mostly)
NO STRESS about the amount of work coming in
Today, there were 4 of us on the entire floor. Technically, we’re not supposed to even be there, because they are allegedly doing ventilation work in the whole building wing for 3 weeks and everyone who is not on vacation was told to go find somewhere else in the Axis campus to work during this time period. I said that I would probably work from home in that case, as I have a big monitor at home, and trying to sit somewhere random with my tiny laptop screen for 3 weeks was not appealing. I managed fine on it for 2 weeks when I was at my mom’s but it’s not something I want to do if it’s not really necessary. I have 2 big monitors at work, and when I found out that my team was just going ahead and staying put without any problems, I did the same.
Since it hasn’t been hot at all during July so far, it doesn’t heat up in our open landscape and therefore it’s no worse than usual. We have two big fans that we can turn on if we feel like it’s getting stifling, but we haven’t even had to use them most days because we’ve been so few people. We’re only 3-4 in the space right now, and not even every day.
It’s been nice to have such a low amount of work requests coming in, though I’ve had a steady pile of things to do and am busy all day long working. I’m just not as disturbed as usual, because everyone else is on vacation, so I’m not getting a ton of extra emails or interruptions or being pinged constantly with questions in Teams, or having hardly any meetings at all, and no one is complaining about anything, and no one is being stupid about stuff, and no one else is stressing either, and the 3 of us on my team are able to be super focused and enjoy our work. I love it. I wish the whole year was like this.
I sound so antisocial, haha! Is that such a bad thing, if it means so much less stress? 🙂
Mood: relaxed
Music: Tahiti 80—1000 Times