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Today was a bit of a weird one.
For the last two weeks I've been testing changes nonstop, jumping from change request to change request. I've done two late night testing sessions with my colleagues on back to back weeks and on top of that handling data requests from other departments looking to run their own testing.

I finally finished the last bit of testing on my docket, and todays work day was just... Silent. No data requests, no tickets assigned, just a single 7 minute long meeting in the morning. The rest of the day was just me absently staring at my work laptop, wondering when someone was going to ping me.

It's nice getting a break, but it also makes me feel a little... guilty I guess? Like I should be working and the fact that I'm not, even though there's nothing to do, just gives me this general unease.

i get that, my job is usually super busy dispositioning defective product or fixing broken tools when they go down, so when things are calm in my area of the factory, I just sit there and feel like I'm doing something wrong lol
I wish I could allow myself down-time at work, even when it's slow I look for work to do

pepper wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 9:01 pm i get that, my job is usually super busy dispositioning defective product or fixing broken tools when they go down, so when things are calm in my area of the factory, I just sit there and feel like I'm doing something wrong lol
I wish I could allow myself down-time at work, even when it's slow I look for work to do

Yeah, I get stuck in the position of having no work and looking for anything to do, then hating the small things that I find because they don't feel meaningful or impactful to any workload.
Stuck right now as I'm due to go on annual leave next week, so work is coming through the pipeline, but it's strategically more feasable to hand it off to another team member as I won't be present to test it for a majority of the test cycle.