Does a New Environment Mean New Tics?
I started in a new role at work a few weeks ago and it's been going well TS-wise. I was worried that the stimuli involved in learning a new job might set me up for a rough time with my tics, but I was only sort of right. I work for an industrial supply company, and for the last five years I've been working alongside some great people in our freight department. If our whole building sends out 14k orders a day, our department of 17-ish people only handles around 400-450 of those. Our orders were typically for the biggest stuff we sell, and each order required a fair bit of critical thinking to process. I could explain that even further, but if you haven't already bailed on this entry, you surely would have by the time I was done. The pace took wild swings, from casually working to frantically running around like lunatics literally trying to fit 10,000 pounds into a 5,000 pound box. Those lengthy periods of casual work were bad for my tics, which seem to become worse the more