{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"nrXAJw7e","title":"Your Regularly Scheduled Dysfunction","author":"Apolarbear17","words":343,"posted_at":"2026-01-21T21:06:47.000Z","tags":["Delays","Dysfunction","Life","Maintenance","Time","Vent Poetry","Venting","Work"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/nrXAJw7e-your-regularly-scheduled-dysfunction","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/nrXAJw7e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/54/16/5416a99d-cb27-48b7-b358-1d1a2dad9bf9","description":"This is a vent poem I finished and originally posted at the end of October after having been on a hiatus for some time last year. A vent poem about work stress and frustrations which have persisted to this year too. I’ve had a lot going but I’m also aware of how much is going on in the world so I can get if this feels a bit mundane.","content":"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; **Your Regularly Scheduled Dysfunction** \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; **By: A.X. Bueno\u0026nbsp;**  \n  \nFor all the money they have you’d imagine they could do more\u0026nbsp;  \nTo fix it whenever there’s a broken door\u0026nbsp;  \nWhich you feel happens much more frequently than it should\u0026nbsp;  \nWhen automation is supposed to be the future you expect it to be good\u0026nbsp;  \nBut that’s a notion you feel you should have given up a long while ago\u0026nbsp;  \nAt this point a malfunctioning door or two is just part of the everyday flow\u0026nbsp;  \nThe elevators have an extension of this problem too  \nSlowed by the wind or being worked on it’s what all inside are put through\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \nLeaving you waiting for a few minutes or sometimes considerably more\u0026nbsp;  \nTimes the long wait makes you want to shove your fist through a door\u0026nbsp;  \nThese annoyingly common building problems that adds to\u0026nbsp;  \nThe amount of waiting around and time your work takes to do\u0026nbsp;  \nYou’re not dealing with them alone but it sure can feel that way\u0026nbsp;  \nAt the mercy of wires that can worry with slow pulls, troublesome sway  \nAnd the times when they’re packed for most of the day\u0026nbsp;  \nThis includes the doors too\u0026nbsp;  \nWhen they’re blocked by the person on the other side or in front of you\u0026nbsp;  \nAnd with how sensitive they are\u0026nbsp;  \nSometimes they only shake when you push the button and don’t go ajar\u0026nbsp;  \nNot fully anyway\u0026nbsp;  \nAnd this wouldn’t be too big a problem if you didn’t deal with it everyday\u0026nbsp;  \nOf course people don’t help when they don’t read the signs\u0026nbsp;  \nTrying to grip the door that says not to pull so you provide guidelines\u0026nbsp;  \nAnd when you have to as often as you do your patience internally dwines\u0026nbsp;  \nAfter so long in a way it makes sense  \nWhy things like the doors and elevators don’t work and struggle  \nBut it just leaves you more things on the job to juggle\u0026nbsp;  \nPlus it’s not all people’s fault it’s also the electronics and weather as well\u0026nbsp;  \nYou just wish things weren’t as dysfunctional for a longer spell"}