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I've been here, and the weekend never helps. It just isn't long enough for that. When we're working in an office 9-5, five days a week, for months or years on end we don't notice the weight of other people's emotions we carry. But if you've been working from home for months and have to go back to an office and back to dealing with other people you end up shouldering that burden again and it's more than anybody should have to bear.
You don't get paid enough for this. Nobody gets paid enough for this.
I know logically that lots of people don't mature past high school. They regard themselves as the main character in their own story with no understanding that they're generally at best an extra in everyone else's. I get that self-awareness is a rare and precious commodity. But after months of being home with someone else in possession of that commodity it is hard to communicate with people who need so much emotional hand holding when wrong. I've always been driven toward being a helpful and decent employee but this past week being helpful has meant picking up the slack for a team full of main characters. Being a self-aware NPC is exhausting.