Cubicle Conundrum - Day 52

N: What are you doing?

Q: Finalizing my leave application. I’m taking a vacation after all.

N: Vacation? Nice.

Q: Yeah. One week.



N: A whole week? That’s nice.

Q: Yeah.

N: No emails, no phone calls..

Q: Yeah.

N: No programming, no testing..

Q: Yeah.

N: No deadlines..

Q: Yeah.



N: The piling up of pending tasks..

Q: ….

N: The inevitable squeezing in of a number of overlapping deadlines once you’re back..

Q: ….

N: Not to mention the amount of catching up to do on the project’s progress..

Q: ….

N: A hundred mails to sift through..

Q: Okay stop.

N: None of which will get the appropriate amount of attention from you..

Q: Enough.

N: You might delete the wrong one in a hurry which informs you of a deadline you missed..

Q: Ugh.

N: Or a review that went badly..

Q: Gah!!! Enough!! Shut up!



(a few minutes pass)



N: What are you doing?

Q: Cancelling. Vacations are too much stress.