Let A.I., help you answer to those work requests, work emails on your days of, vacation, because you deserve that needed, break! Translated…
After the traveling restrictions had been lifted post-pandemic, my friends all flew out to travel. There were the photos of gourmet foods, beautiful sights on their, social media. What's bad was, as I saw the photos of the Seven-Star Lagoon, I was reminded of the title of the book that I was, drafting up; seeing that giant lying-on-the-side Buddha in Thailand, I was reminded of how I was in the temples on a call, discussing the terms of contract for my book; seeing the beautiful sights in France, I'd recalled how when I'd walked down the side of the Seine, I was checking for the confirmation e-mail, and during that three-week long trip, there were, rarely any, messages relating to work in my box, I'd felt, relaxed, and yet, a bit, loss.
NOT the real horses in Iceland like these...photo from online...
It seemed, that I'd been, tied up too much by work all this time, but, these past few years, the friends whom I'd traveled out with, held a totally different attitude toward me. A friend who works in publishing same as me, said that I was, a killjoy, but there's nothing I can do, but to, accept that. My friend, who is also, a work-a-holic, when she'd set her schedules for the day, the first thing was to set aside the time for her translation work, and told me to take myself out for a walk during that small chunk of time. But, there was a friend with a too-tough character who'd told me, that if I DARED take my laptop out with me, she will TOSS it out the hotel room window, "I swear that I will do it!" (I didn't DARE test how my laptop can withstand a fall from such a high height, and can only, sneak out in the middle of the nights with my laptop down to the lobby to work, paying for the internet.)
"Vacation", by meaning, started having a different meaning with the instant messaging apps, even when we're off, we're still, on-call. But, the most frequent complaint I'd heard from those who worked, is that some things aren't even urgent enough, nor important, there would still be those, (specifically our managers) who'd demanded us to take the time to read through on our days, off, forcing you to respond. So how do we, handle, that?
overworked AND underpaid...photo from online
A friend texted me the homepage of the Tourism Department of Iceland, they worried that as the tourists hiked across the glaciers, they would still be texting back to work, and that would be dangerous, so they'd, had the respond-back automatic system set up for the visitors. With the three horses, one can type super fast, the other, full of confidence, typing, and tossing the hair back, and there was one, that was supposed to have been trained to respond back using the professional field-specific jargons too (because I couldn't read Icelandic, I can't tell if he's professional enough or not, but I'm sure, that those in your office can't read what he wrote either, so, you're, basically, safe!). Then, all you need to do, is to select WHICH horse you want responding to your work email, key in your name, your e-mail and the time your vacation's over, send out the applications, then, you will get the automated respond back from the systems.
Although I'm no longer a regular nine-to-fiver now, but I still, decided to select that horse that's, trained in professional, jargon , and happily, tested out this Iceland horse service, and immediately, I'd, received a formal enough message, other than letting my clients know, that I'm currently off on vacation, with the day of return to work, including the paragraph by the A.I. program, a series of unreadable symbols—this may not be a test of my guts, but of the sense of humor of the, recipients.
but the robotic A.I. programming that answers for us when we're on vacation...like this...
I looked at that illegible code, thought, like I need you to key all that out for me? Just put my cat on the keyboard, she would do just as, well as you had. And, I'd, decided to use this, innovation immediately, to help all of you, nine-to-five workers, offering the services of "cat-respond email", and, if you're stressed out about not being able to receive the unimportant, unurgent emails on your vacation times, you can call me for this particular service that I will happily, provide for you.
This is, how bad we get, stuck at work, in our minds, even when we ARE on vacation, we still, keep our brains on WORK-MODE, and that takes away from our breaks, and we are still, not given enough time off work, because, we get, kidnapped by our work, and, this A.I. program, is probably only good for, a joke, because, nobody can read that message that the A.I. machine's cranking out to your bosses or your office coworkers, and, chances are, when we receive this sort of a message in our boxes, we'd, hit the JUNK button. But hey, it's, a good idea, I mean, who would NOT want to have A.I., to HELP us answer to those, work calls, when we ARE, on our, vacations, right??? Exactly.
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