Signs You've "Leaned In" Too Far:

[garote]

1. Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
2. You keep trying to open your front door with the key to the office.
3. You think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock.
4. Anything under an hour each way is not a "real" commute.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not use your preferred messaging app.
6. You normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.
7. Your grocery list has been on your refrigerator so long some of the products don't exist any more.
8. You're using packed moving boxes as furniture.
9. You cannot remember the last time someone told you a joke in-person, rather than forwarding you a link.
10. When you're at the office, you dream about catching up on sleep. When you sleep, you dream you're at the office.
11. Every now and then you remember a friend, and think about reaching out to them when work is not so busy ... only to remember a moment later that you recently went on social media and read that friend's obituary.

Adapted from a similar list I gathered 13 years ago.

Comments

[tcpip]

Sounds like a table that should be added to "Paper & Paychecks"

[garote]

Like, in the form of a to-do list? :D

[tcpip]

Haha, perfect leaning in! :D

[sassa_nf]

Yes, sir! 5pm is indeed half-day, that's exactly when the West Coast wakes up, so you've got to stay around juuuust a little longer, for a couple of meetings and to address PR comments.

[garote]

Ah yes! I forgot about all the time-zone shenanigans in today's work world...

[tcpip]

Being in Australia and attending meetings in Europe or the Americas is quite entertaining at times.

I remember doing my Software Carpentry course at 3am in the morning...