and seriously, this is why big offices should have anonymous ways to make suggestions to HR/employee relations.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 8:28:45 am PST #854 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Sue - Mar 02, 2006 8:28:52 am PST #855 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Is there an OHS person in your office, ita? You should talk to them.
§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 8:30:00 am PST #856 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
DXMachina - Mar 02, 2006 8:33:12 am PST #857 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It's snowing like crazy outside my window, but I'm listening to the Dodgers play the Braves in Florida, AIFG!
Frankenbuddha - Mar 02, 2006 8:41:47 am PST #858 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Sean K - Mar 02, 2006 9:03:53 am PST #859 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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?
Jessica - Mar 02, 2006 9:07:53 am PST #860 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sean, try "room dividers." (Assuming you're looking for something like these.)
Sue - Mar 02, 2006 9:07:54 am PST #861 of 10001
hip deep in pie
katefate - Mar 02, 2006 9:08:12 am PST #862 of 10001
Frail my heart apart and play me a little Shady Grove
What are you supposed to do, work environment-wise, if you have a strong allergy/migraine trigger?
I was talking to a scent-sensitive friend about this last weekend. When she's desperate, she'll put balled up kleenex in her nostrils. She says febreze is one of her biggest triggers.
A lot of people just don't take it seriously, and that's frustrating.
Sean K - Mar 02, 2006 9:11:21 am PST #863 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Thanks Jessica and Sue. That's what I'm looking for.