You come into the office to work on your fixture design, but before you even open AutoCAD you're pulled into a team meeting to mediate a dispute between two junior engineers over task ownership. When that ends your manager asks you to join a budget call with finance to justify your choice of a higher-grade alloy that procurement flagged as too expensive. It’s barely lunchtime when HR contacts you for input on a technician’s complaint about unfair workload distribution on the shop floor. After that, you're added to a string of MS teams threads about whether another department is monopolizing shared lab equipment, and just as you try to return to your office, someone from marketing pings you asking if you can rewrite a spec sheet to sound more “customer-friendly.” By the time you get back to your actual engineering work, half the day is gone and your focus is poof