Ways to know that you've been working too hard

I've been working too hard. In the past couple of days, I've seen the signs:

1. You hit a '9' on your home phone before attempting to dial an outside number.

2. You answer your home phone "Hello! <company name> Grace speaking. May I help you?"

3. You go to call your SO from work and dial their work number. After not getting an answer and wondering for 5 minutes where they might be, you realize that it's 8 PM, and they went home hours ago.

4. You talk to your friends and they assume that you're at work.


Are there other signs that I might have missed?

-- Grace (who is blissfully taking the weekend off)

[Trebor1415]

Originally posted by gracef
I've been working too hard. In the past couple of days, I've seen the signs:

1. You hit a '9' on your home phone before attempting to dial an outside number.

Thankfully, I don't need to dail out at my current job, so I've finally broken that habit.


2. You answer your home phone "Hello! <company name> Grace speaking. May I help you?"

I still somtimes answer the phone with my answer from my LAST job. When I used to work two jobs, I'd often answer with the other job. I don't know who was more confused; the people trying to call a radio station who thought they got a hospital or the people calling an ER who thought they got a radio station.

3. You go to call your SO from work and dial their work number. After not getting an answer and wondering for 5 minutes where they might be, you realize that it's 8 PM, and they went home hours ago.

4. You talk to your friends and they assume that you're at work.


Are there other signs that I might have missed?

-- Grace (who is blissfully taking the weekend off)

[Mrsfitts]

I once was working so many hours on a particular project, that I started sleeping at the hotel (Wyndham Gardens) across the street. I was there so much that they upgraded me to the suite rooms at the corporate cost of $39/night.

Husband sold the house, bought one 90 miles closer so I could work all that overtime and come home at night too! (normally we did a 4-hour commute each day together, but he got holidays and weekends off)

I think I was working too many hours on that project...

[kuuleimomi]

After two minutes on the home phone with your friends you start wondering if this personal phone call is getting too long

Finn