Office mate loves dehumidifier
It’s a strange thing, working in a traditional office.
I mean, have you ever considered what a strange environment and situation most workplaces produce? You take a bunch of strangers with different strengths, weaknesses, opinions, and preferences, and then throw them all in one room together for the majority of the day and expect them to get work done. Wouldn’t it make more sense if people could be comfortable where they work? Or if everyone felt comfortable and accepted by their coworkers instead of having added social pressures on the daily workload? Personally, it’s taken me over 4 months to even speak to our new secretary and find out why exactly her desk hums. For months now, I’ve heard a low and dull vibration every time I walk past her desk. I let it go and focused on my own work, but I started to hear other people complaining about the distracting sound recently. There were many theories, ranging from a miniature desk fan to a scandalous sex toy to a personal space heater. We took trips past the desk just to get a whiff of some weird scent or to get closer to the whooshing hum. After weeks of taking bets on what was hidden underneath her noisy desk, I snuck over one day and realized that it was nothing but a little humidifier. Apparently she has severe breathing issues and cannot stand the level of air conditioning in the office. Instead of wanting to bother her office mates with a legitimate respiratory health concern, this poor woman has been desperately trying to alter her own indoor air quality from the prison of her desk. If this whole air quality debacle doesn’t say something about the inefficacy of office workers, I don’t know what will.