In the past, maybe it was possible for our cubicle forebears to tolerate getting through their boredom until the end of the day. They had the sort of threshold, stamina and attention span that modern humans simply do not. Now, the average office worker is lucky to make it to noon without feeling like Kesha in the “Praying” video: shipwrecked, stranded and utterly abused by the sea of boredom that has oppressed her at her computer for the last four hours.
Sure, she can try to distract herself with the horizon in the distance that is the final hour of the workday, but ultimately, she surrenders her body to the water, letting its choppiness and unpredictability with new ways to torture her overtake her shoddy raft. A raft that, like her sanity, is gradually being chipped away at and eroded by the not so calm currents of ennui.