Overproductivity

When I first began working at the warehouse I was easily overwhelmed by most of the tasks that come along with warehouse duty. Sorting through miscellaneous files took several hours and was taxing on my back. Putting those same files back in the right place took even longer. With most any task that takes a while to complete, I grew frustrated with whatever task it was, but eventually finished it out.

These days I am stuck with the same tasks. Every once in a while I find that a large stack of miscellaneous files has been brought over and is ready to be sorted out and put away. Except that nowadays I don't look at these stacks with frustration, but with boredom. What once took us [the warehouse team] three hours to accomplish now takes us an hour or so [if we're lucky]. Then what? Exactly.

I realize that I am incredibly overqualified for my job, but I didn't realize that I would ever be an overproductive employee. I mean, it's much easier to slack off before a task and then accomplish it. It takes skill to do a task and then have to either find something to do or, if nothing else is available, do a little slacking. So today, try as I might, I was putting some files away, trying to take my time as to not a) get sweaty, and b) to stretch the task out a little. I stopped for a moment, to stand in front of the fan [objective a: failed] and took a glance at the time. I figured that with all I'd done I had to have worked for about two hours. One hour, one stinking hour had passed [objective b: failed]. Now I was both bored and frustrated. I don't really suppose that there is any satisfying conclusion to this story. After finishing said task I played some sudoku and then found something else to do. Moral of the story: get a really good job after college so you don't have to put up with crap like this. The end. you have my love.