Yawn

[kitanzi]

My job is product support and customer service for small businesses doing payroll, and their associated tax issues. Today is the very last day of the first quarter, and we've been understandably busy. I've been coming home physically and mentally wiped this week, so I suppose it makes sense I'd dream about it, unfair as it seems. The same thing happened almost nightly during year end.(Why CAN'T I get paid for the calls I take in my sleep? I'm still working...)

Sometime in the early hours this morning my brain generated a call for me - my phone rang, I grabbed my headset and answered it in approved fashion, talked the caller through the first few steps of a fairly standard problem. Then I somehow realized I was dreaming, stopped short, and told her to fuck off. The caller was startled and huffy, and I told her I didn't have to talk to her, this was a dream. She argued a bit and hung up. It's really rather funny - it was quite vivid. If I weren't quite, quite sure this happened a insane-o'clock in the morning and could not have possibly been real, I'd be a bit worried!

I don't generally remember my dreams, unless they happen to be particularly bad or I happen to be woken up in the middle of one. I'm kind of glad I remember this one, though - perhaps a speck of wish fufillment just now.

Comments

[jenny_evergreen]

Hey, I'm all for dreams that allow you to vent! How well adjusted of your subconscious! *grin*
And that's a GREAT icon! :)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

It's definitely an improvement over the version I had at year end, while I was still terminally stressed over whether I could even do the damn job - those almost invariably had me fucking it up royally, and only sometimes realizing it was a dream in order to semi-wake up from it. On the whole, this is much pleasanter. :)

[jenny_evergreen]

MUCH pleasanter! :)

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that definately sounds like an "I hate my job and if I had my druthers, this is what I would say to every customer for wasting my time and energy the way they all do. RTFM, people! Thank you for calling."

*hugs* Miss you, -H...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Miss you too, hon - come hang out with me at work and tell the callers all the things I'd love to and can't. >:)

[cellio]

*laugh* Dreams where you realize you're dreaming are a lot of fun, but are very rare for me. Glad you got to tell the caller off! Virtual wish-fulfillment is better than no wish-fulfillment at all...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - I'll take what I can get, especially when I want to keep my job! *G*

Hah! Tricked it into letting me Comment!

[(Anonymous)]

"If I weren't quite, quite sure this happened a insane-o'clock in the morning and could not
have possibly been real, I'd be a bit worried!"

Let us hope you don't doze off at work and actually take a call while dozing and tell the customer off.

Ann Onynous.

Re: Hah! Tricked it into letting me Comment!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Well, if I do I'll be sure to post about it. :) How did you manage to get it to let you comment, then?