Energy Vampire

It starts innocently. A head appears over your monitor, or a chair rolls a little too close, and you hear the most dangerous sentence in any workplace: "Got a second? Just one quick question."

You do not have a second. You have a deadline, three tabs open, and a coffee that went cold while you were actually working. But you are polite, so you say sure. That is your first mistake. There is no quick question. There never was. The question was just the cover charge.