for years at my corporate job i was judged largely on the number of items i completed on average in a given month at 10 items per hour you’re hitting the bare minimum and you won’t get fired at 125 items per hour you’re eligible for quarterly bonuses i’ve struggled at times over the 13 years i’ve been there but in the last year or so i’ve gotten to a point where i’m consistently doing more like 15-16 items per hour sounds like i’m kicking ass right that’s what i thought  now we have a new system in place that measures our idle time what that means is if our computer is idle for two minutes it starts a counter which then stops when we start hitting keys and clicking the mouse again if this idle time adds up to a certain amount in a given week we get in trouble   the problem is that due to my adhd i have periods throughout the day where i’m cranking out an epic fuckload of work but i also have periods where i’m literally staring at the wall for ten minutes at a time in the past this hasn’t been an issue because it all evens out at the end of the month and my stats indicate that i have in fact done a pretty impressive amount of work   now i’m in the fucked up situation where i’m getting praised by my boss for have my best week ever then in a separate email i get from her fifteen fucking minutes later i get chewed out for having an excessive amount of idle time i asked her how i can possibly have my best week in nearly 13 years but also be slacking off to a point where it’s an issue i received no response whatsoever   look i get judging me by my work output what i don’t get is insisting that i work at one consistent rate throughout the day like some sort of robot if the end result is the same amount of work either way why the fuck does it matter this is just corporate control for the sake of control