Multitasking

[zimena]

I'm not good with multitasking. No matter what I'm supposed to do, I prefer to do one thing at a time. I get stressed and annoyed very quickly if I need to constantly switch my attention to new and different things. Some people appear to have a special skill to juggle various activities at the same time, but I'm absolutely not one of them.

Perhaps, sometimes, I admire that ability. But also, sometimes it feels like lack of respect or care. If I text you to ask if you're available because we need to talk about something, I want your full attention for the few minutes that conversation takes if you text me back and say yes. I don't want a ton of obvious signs that you're doing Random Randomness when you said you were available to talk.

Is that really so hard to understand?

* Okay, so this is not specifically about something that happened today. This post happened because of something I saw the other day, and somehow I started thinking about this.

** This is how DW posts happen. Sometimes.

Comments

[yuuago]

That's pretty understandable. I feel the same way sometimes, especially in situations like you described. I suppose it's because with that sort of thing, I'm not asking to talk just for funsies; I need actual attention paid to what I'm saying! Grrr. :T

[nineveh_uk]

The thing is, that everyone is crap at multi-tasking. It's just that some people kid themselves that they are good at it. The people who are obviously distracted when they're talking to you are not the rare folk who can genuinely juggle, they're people just as bad at it as you are, but who haven't grasped the point that you have - that they can't do it.

TL:DR you have every right to be annoyed.