When the automatisms you acquired during your job are invading your private life.

When i was an intern in a big store, i had to fight against the reflex of storing the shelves during my own shopping sessions.

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    5 days ago

    I occasionally check my surroundings (especially when staying at a spot for more than just a couple minutes) for potential ambush and sniper locations.

    The funny part about that is that I only served for two years and not once left my home country to even be at risk of combat.

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    7 days ago

    Worked in retail for 8 years and still feel no joy in my life over a decade later. Does that count?

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    7 days ago

    I am an English as second language teacher, and sometimes when I’m talking in my first language I say things like “sure” or “great”, and get extremely embarrassed after that.

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    I work in commercial and institutional building energy efficiency. I notice myself paying way more attention to the infrastructure that normally fades into the background. Stuff like “I wonder how big the transformer for this building is?” or “Ooh, that’s a hefty cooling tower, I wonder how much chilled water they use?”

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      6 days ago

      I do this with stonework. My wife’s started doing it now too. When we first got together, we’d be on vacation and she’d point out what she thought was great stone work. Without being a dick about it I would automatically point out things that are super obvious to me, 15 years in the trade next summer. “That’s a structurally severe crack, that’s an obviously amateur patch, why the fuck that person was let anywhere near a restoration job is beyond me, that’s got another 5 years max until it could potentially fall and kill someone…” Etc etc etc.

      Now our vacations tend to be us going from restaurant to attractions or whatever, and stopping along the way to criticise shoddy stone work.

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    7 days ago

    i worked at starbucks during its heyday in the 90’s and it turned me into an espresso snob thanks to the training they used to put their barista through.

    they stopped doing that sometime in the 2000’s and now i’m so bougie that starbucks is beneath my standards. lol

    i’m the same way with food; i used to make my own tortillas and now everything store bought is beneath my standards too. lol

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    7 days ago

    I support a fax server application. You’d be surprised how many pieces of media use fax tones as background noise and I automatically start trying to search for audio issues when I hear it.

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    7 days ago

    As a former product owner I initiated family retrospectives after smaller or larger events like holidays, stadium visits, changing family bank accounts, moving, etc. We discus what we found went really good or bad and what we need to look out for next time and note everything.

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    Speaking for the back row without realising it, especially when I’m passionate about the subject.

    I still haven’t figured out how to prevent it, people frequently tell me that I start bellowing after a point in my discourse. And that’s on top of having a naturally resonant voice…

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    7 days ago

    My honey ended a phone conversation last night with his cousin with “thank you for your time.” Just running on autopilot.

    I have reverse work/life autopilot. I’ve ended work-related voicemails with “love you! Er, uh, that just came out by accident. I mean I am fond of you but…well, crap, just call me back.”

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      7 days ago

      I have been terrified of saying “love you” at the end of a work call. It just seems to be at the top of conversational options when hanging up.

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    Going out to pubs and pointing out all the missing or lacking essential safety measures.

    Going pretty much anywhere and talking about the breaches of electrical safety requirements.

    In airports and explaining all the ways they aren’t complying with safety regulations. And now that I don’t work in an airport anymore I don’t know what to do with all that VERY specific knowledge.

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      I don’t know what to do with all that VERY specific knowledge.

      Anonymously tip it to regulating authorities?

      Or the news, to force a resolution and get some amusement?

      Maybe I’m too much of a keyboard vigilante lol…

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      7 days ago

      It’s been years since I moved from the electrical field, but anytime I’m in a new building I’m still looking at the ceiling to see where and how everything is installed.