Time is always on my side
Jul. 18th, 2023 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thepowerofdeathI have discovered two bizarre but amusing ways of freaking out the people I work with.
I am a touch typist, I don't need to look at the keyboard when typing so in the office when people are talking to me, I can continue to type but look at them and hold a conversation. C told me it 'literally freaks [him the fuck out'. Especially when he notices that I haven't made any mistakes on screen!
I have observed that most people will stop working when they have a conversation with someone - yet then spend ages complaining they're so behind on their work. But of course, you can't say to them 'it's because you keep stopping to talk to people - just work and talk at the same time!'
I also can't quite understand how office-based workers, who do all their work on a computer, who sit in front of a keyboard for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and can't type. There is a whole swath of people in my office - both young and old - who 'hunt and peck' typing with just their index fingers and have to look for the keys. How have they not learned the keyboard layout?
The second way I weird people out is I have an almost perfect internal sense of time. Without looking at a clock, I always know what time it is. I don't use the sun or anything, I don't know how to do that. But I know what time it is, I know how much time has passed, I know how long I've been doing something. Apparently this isn't 'normal' (whatever normal is).
I've even done it when asleep. If I'm having a nap, I can tell myself I'm going to nap for x amount of time, and will wake up at that time. I don't need an alarm clock to wake in the morning either.
I am a touch typist, I don't need to look at the keyboard when typing so in the office when people are talking to me, I can continue to type but look at them and hold a conversation. C told me it 'literally freaks [him the fuck out'. Especially when he notices that I haven't made any mistakes on screen!
I have observed that most people will stop working when they have a conversation with someone - yet then spend ages complaining they're so behind on their work. But of course, you can't say to them 'it's because you keep stopping to talk to people - just work and talk at the same time!'
I also can't quite understand how office-based workers, who do all their work on a computer, who sit in front of a keyboard for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and can't type. There is a whole swath of people in my office - both young and old - who 'hunt and peck' typing with just their index fingers and have to look for the keys. How have they not learned the keyboard layout?
The second way I weird people out is I have an almost perfect internal sense of time. Without looking at a clock, I always know what time it is. I don't use the sun or anything, I don't know how to do that. But I know what time it is, I know how much time has passed, I know how long I've been doing something. Apparently this isn't 'normal' (whatever normal is).
I've even done it when asleep. If I'm having a nap, I can tell myself I'm going to nap for x amount of time, and will wake up at that time. I don't need an alarm clock to wake in the morning either.
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Date: 2023-07-30 11:51 am (UTC)That said, I wonder if sometimes this behaviour is rooted in the fact that most people can only work for about 4 hours per day productively, and since they cannot take a break maybe this is a way to have a "legal way to rest" for a bit mentally.
I'm a two finger tipper as well - wrote my final thesis like that as well. It's just soooo hard to break the habit! :( But I aleady installed an app for practising, and hopefully, that will change in a year or two.
Your sleeping skill sounds like a superpower, btw! :)