A Day in the Life of an Office Going Crazy

We are all losing our minds right now in the office. It’s 95 degrees outside, about -100 degrees inside (brrrr) and we’ve all been working 12 hour days in order to get this work done by our deadline of august 1. That’s coming up right? Shit.

Usually it’s around 2 or 3 when people start getting delirious and  humming yellow submarine or passing youtube videos of U2’s “One” with images of buffalo running off of a cliff because that is what we feel like our project is headed. (if you knew the project we were working on you would know how IRONIC it is) It is in these delirious states that we will map out the entrance to a restaurant in our lobby with masking tape and get everyone in the office to walk through it to make sure it is big enough (it was) and someone on the other project will inevitably start whining about the state of their project which is…..nonexistant.

Today it started at around 10. The 80’s playlist is playing on someone’s pandora radio, cranked up because the boss isn’t here and its been one of those weeks.

Someone starts boop-booping and we all laugh. Then someone else starts talking about writing obituaries. About ourselves. How we would die, [insert firm name here] style.

This is when I knew we had lost it.

We are incredibly busy at work, insanely almost. I have made it a rule on my blog not to talk about work, even though I want to share all the funny (as in what my coworkers and I would find funny in the you had to be there kind of way) things that go on in the office. There are so many times where I have laughed so hard I’ve cried, so many times where i thought we should all be institutionalized, me especially. There is a lot of gossip for such a small office, theres scandal and bad things happening behind closed doors.

I’m going on a business trip next week, at the worst possible time to be leaving my team. The worst part about it is that my team doesn’t even know that on monday, I’m flying upstate. For the remainder of the week. At a time when they need me the most; two weeks before everything is due. At first I was excited-my first business trip! But then I started getting more details, I start hearing my team talk about what I need to do next week. When I’m not even goIng to be here and can’t even warn them I will be gone.

It has me a little stressed out to say the least.