Microsoft Teams is terrible already, but changing your status from green to yellow because you haven’t moved your mouse in 5 minutes is diabolical. And you can’t override it. Whoever designed this, I hope both sides of your pillow are permanently warm.
Corporate life will teach you that knowing the work is only half the battle. The real skill is staying calm in meetings, reading the situation, handling egos, receiving vague feedback, and not responding to emails with your true thoughts.
Bro we really have to do something about our in land flights. There is no reason why if you decide to travel from Accra to Kumasi and back, you have to pay from about 4k to 5k. 90 minutes trip oooo. Herh!
This year has been very eye opening for me. I’ve been working back to back, travelling constantly, barely sleeping, and I even had to miss one of my close friend’s weddings because of work. I almost missed another friend’s baby’s christening too, and I was like, you know what? I just have to let this deal pass.
And it really made me think… is this what 9–5 people go through every day?
Because if I’m the boss and I’m struggling this much to create balance for myself, imagine working for somebody else and having even less control over your time.
At least I could decide to let a gig go so I could show up for my friend. A lot of people don’t even have that luxury. You can’t always just wake up and say, “I need today for myself. I need to rest. I have something important to attend.”
And then you’re expected to keep doing this for years.
It’s actually crazy when you really think about it.