Basically a rant. Skip to the last paragraph if you need any ideas to help you with noise.
I thought I found the perfect job for me. No it doesn’t pay a living wage $17 and some cents. Started at $16 two years ago. PTO. Health benefits. Not great, but they’re there. But it was perfect in the sense that with my mental health I can get up and go everyday and be fairly happy and function as an adult. Wasn’t worried about losing it. My first really good boss. But then corporate thought we should all move from spread out small departments at one building (with plenty of walking space) to shoving everyone in one floor that is open concept with nowhere to escape in the building. FUCK OPEN CONCEPT. I work for a healthcare organization and they don’t care about my health. I miss my quiet building where I could think.
I thought I was handling it alright but then this month came. All the stress that was piling up and then new stressors this month…I can’t handle the noise. Noise at work. Noise at home. Noise in the middle of the night. Noise everywhere 24/7.
I feel like I’m the last three weeks I’ve gone from managing well to total burnout from noise.
My job IS NOT HIGH STRESS!! It’s ridiculous I’m expected to do a job while listening to 5 different conversations at the same time. All day. I take patient phone calls too. Sometimes I wonder if they can hear everyone over the phone. It’s NEVER ENDING NOISE!
Noise burnout is real. I got these things from Flare audio called Calmer to help with noise distortion. Barely had them 24 hours but I can tell a difference with the traffic at my apartment. One person has a truck so loud I get angry every time he starts it up. With these in my ear it really took the edge off. I can only hope these will help make work bearable.