Comments on: Corporate flashbacks: More on the check-y-loos.

By: You mean there’s no magical swell of unlimited time?

You mean there’s no magical swell of unlimited time? — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:59:13 +0000

[...] Somehow I’ve managed to extricate myself (at least for now, knock-knock-knock) from the incessant maddening loop of check-check-checking. [...]

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The golden hour. My antidote to the check-y-loos. — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:21:27 +0000

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By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:47:20 +0000

Totally, totally have this pattern too — and many other left over bad habits from corporate life! Good times.

By: Patty K

Patty K — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:25:30 +0000

Oh yeah, the “good old days” of checking for fires before heading to the office. I left my job just about 2 years ago…and I still check my email first thing every morning. Part pattern, part “if I don’t do it I’ll feel anxious until I do.”

I have noticed lately that the tiny fragment of dread is starting to be replaced with a tiny fragment of hope that there might be comments on my blog.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:30:54 +0000

I’ll report back in a few months .. most of the time, I do not have a sense of dread from my Inbox, but there have been a few months recently where I did. Ugh. It was horrific. I kept trying to figure out how to hide the offending folder (where those emails were being directed to) so I could continue working. Except I still felt the dread, so I may as well have checked it. My personal mail, however, I enjoy .. so maybe that enjoyment will remain.

Speaking of check-y-loos though .. I sat down last night to do my Thursday photo post. Two hours later, I was about to go to bed and thought, “What did I sit down to do anyway? Oh right .. my blog post.” Sheesh.

By: Victoria Brouhard

Victoria Brouhard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:18:08 +0000

I really wonder how many of us who’ve escaped corporate hell have this same response to checking email – that sense of dread – that sticks with us.

I know I’ve got it. There’s always that little part of me that is expecting some kind of bad news. What a sad way to start the day.

No wisdom to add, really, but I definitely share the impulse.

By: AlisonG

AlisonG — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:54:53 +0000

I love "check-y-loos"! I developed a pretty bad web-surfing-to-avoid-work habit at my corporate job. Any time I hit a snag, I clicked over to a browser window and tried to ignore the problem. I got my work done, but I made the process more painful than it needed to be. I still have this troublesome tic, even when I'm doing creative work I love. Freedom and Leechblock are my friends. I was wound pretty tight when I left my job. It took a few years to get the 9-5 out of my system--and it was a great place to work, I had a wonderful manager, not a lot of meetings, plenty of peace and quiet for an introvert. But it didn't feed my soul the way coaching does.