I no longer sit in a private office or cube where I can turn my monitor away from passing eyes. There are six desks in the room I'm in, and people come and go all the time.
This limits what I can do outside of job-related web access. Formerly, when on break or during lunch, I'd check out the Washington Post headlines, or the comics, or femulate, or I could pre-post tomorrow's callMeMeg entry, or check out other trans-related sites, or approve comments.
I can't do most of those things now.
I can still check my mail (infrequently) ~ even my Meg accounts.
Yesterday, early, I received an e-mail from Glamour Boutique, the only trans-related site I shop at. I spent the entire day hoping for an empty room for at least a few minutes so I could open it and see where I might spend my money. It never happened. Normally, I don't mind being kept in suspense. "Do not open 'til Christmas" does not bother me. Unless, that is, it's a package from someone who knows about Meg. Then I want to tear it open immediately.
I really wanted to read that e-mail, but I know it's going to be mostly pictures. Later in the day, when there was only one other person in the room, I was calculating how well he could see my screen from where he was and whether I could safely open the message.
The answer was "fairly well" and I had to wait.
Patience is supposed to be a good thing, isn't it?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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In terms of virtues, "Patience" may be over-rated.
ReplyDeletePrivacy, on the other hand, is a life essential that is never more important than when it is taken away.
Pat
Meg, my sympathies. Last year, I worked as a consultant at a small software development firm. I had a cube but it was out of the way and I could occasionally browse cd / tg related sites and check my e-mail. Nothing like Websense either. I spent limited time on these activities, did my job well and everyone was happy.
ReplyDeleteThis year, I'm working at a much more conservative and locked down place and although I'm not sharing an office, my cube is much more out in the open. It's a little frustrating.