I can't ask the guy four cubes over to not eat popcorn,
A lot of offices don't allow popcorn because it can be such a distraction. (My office has popcorn going in the kitchen all day long, but I digress...) If it's a frequent problem, it might be worth finding out if you can quietly put a bug in someone's ear.
Both of those could be worked on, given sufficient alcohol.
Five seconds looking at my work inbox will do the trick quite nicely. But I'd take the alcohol anyway.
Hell, I bet she'd carry the large caliber weapon if we just gave her one.
Yes, please.
and seriously, this is why big offices should have anonymous ways to make suggestions to HR/employee relations.
Is there an OHS person in your office, ita? You should talk to them.
I'm okay with asking people in my group to ease it up with the perfume and the popcorn (and I have, successfully). But the guy four cubes over (actually, it's more like 6) doesn't know me from Eve, and probably thinks he's far away enough from me that it shouldn't matter.
There are about 1100 people in this building. About 450 of them sit unseparated by walls on my floor, and maybe 550 in a similarly open area on the floor below, and I'm basically right on a balcony looking over them. Not counting visitors, at least 100 people who have no idea who I am could cause me a migraine by doing something perfectly normal at their desk.
I could go to HR and ask about accomodation, but I should probably start with the fan and the coffee. I totally vote coffee or that Aveda anti-humectant.
It's snowing like crazy outside my window, but I'm listening to the Dodgers play the Braves in Florida, AIFG!
It's snowing like crazy outside my window
Huh. It hasn't even started at all up here. I wonder if it's just slowly on the way or the path is diverting a bit out to sea or further in-land somewhere.
Okay hivemind,
I need some kind of cheap folding screen for our production offices, to section off somebody's desk and give them some privacy for working. I would have thought Ikea was perfect for that, but searching for "screen" on their website catalog is giving me NO LOVE.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Sean, try "room dividers." (Assuming you're looking for something like these.)
The cheapest one at Target is $99:
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