How does it compare to the air quality in a river of cars rolling 3mph through dystopian city scapes?
Whatever it takes to avoid the excessive snacking debuff
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But corporations are enticing people to come into the office with free snacks!
I snacked way more at the office because there was one of this little vendor stores I could easily steal from with a bunch of cookies and chips just sitting there, ripe for the picking.
At home I was too lazy to think ahead and get that junk.
How many air purifiers can you buy with the money you save on gas and vehicle maintenance every year?
A 6 pack of 20x20x1 BNX TruFilter MERV 11 filters is $46.99 on amazon.com, about $7.83 each. You'll want to replace them every 6 months.
20 inch Lasko box fans are $23.37 each at walmart
A roll of painter's tape is $4.97 at walmart
It apparently costs $113.36 per year to run a 20 in box fan 24/7, based on average American electrical costs in 2023.
The average American spends $8466 on their commute each year.
You could make and run 55 air purifiers for the cost of the average commute.
The average American spends $8466 on their commute each year.
Wtf how is this a real stat? I'm not doubting you or anything, just sheer disbelief that the average yank spends $32 a day getting to and from work.
Is it living really far away or depreciation and insurance on a stupid car?
Gasoline, tires, fluids, insurance, maintenance, depreciation, tolls, registration. Commuters spend an average of 239 hours commuting per year. It really adds up.
vehicles are heinous money sinks. one hour of operation (engine running) is something like $15-20 in materials (wear, fluids, maintenance), value depreciation, etc. doesn't include parking, tags, insurance, tolls.
it takes a lot of personal planning, economic power and focus to sidestep this as an individual in the US and end up not needing a car for work, or having a very short commute with the lack of public transport or bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure.
Yanks on average think sitting in their individual petroleum chariot for 40+ minutes a day x2 is "normal" and that only eccentrics would prioritize not needing a car over where they live.
I'm an eccentric and know a lot of people who are very "normal" over here.
There's no way forcing me to smell Amber's chopped raw broccoli breakfast salad is better for air quality than letting me sit in a cloud of my own farts at home
Amber.
That one person that insists on microwaving their fish lunch in the office.
Being sedentary at a desk for 8 hours is probably worse for you than the air quality drop and the snacking combined.
"What? 'Aerosolized virus particulate' is a quality air can have! And let me tell all you stay at home shut ins: y'all are missing out!"
I thought this was the onion at first
It might as well be. Reality IS the onion now
And every day, we reach a deeper layer...
It also leads to more paid naps and the opportunity to do my workout during pointless meetings.
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for all that is holy please start commuting again we promise to build another car lane
Excessive snacking 
looks pointedly at the 2lbs bag of pretzels I have stashed in my office desk
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I for one snack more at the office because there I have to spend a lot of time seated to look like I am constantly working. And I use it as easy dopamine as I just hate being there.
Office day = one box of cookies every time.
"the office has a break room fully stocked with snacks, but your mostly-empty fridge is the problem"
who the fuck actually works somewhere that provides snacks?
My work "provides" snacks, in that there is a little shop in the cafeteria where I could buy a candy bar or a cup of instant ramen for 200% the price of what it would cost at the grocery store a 10 minute walk away.
now that sounds like something i can conceptualize of
These are usually extremely easy to steal from lmao. My boss was always sending out passive aggressive emails like "Whoever is taking items from the bistro without paying at the receptacle, please stop" every month and all the co-workers and I kept stealing anyway
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Even in the best case scenario, that cushy benefit is just coming out of your paycheque.
More offices are getting these little convenience stores with snacks and drinks. You pay at a booth and a camera watches you to make sure you don't steal
More offices are getting these little convenience stores with snacks and drinks. You pay at a booth and a camera watches you to make sure you don't steal
It's like being back in (increasingly privatized) public school again. When will workers need hall passes to leave their open office spaces? 
Get a houseplant and a standing desk. Problem solved.
I’m gonna go do an excessive snacking
I expect to work from home AND be paid hazard pay for it.
Ooh you absolute animal! i want you on my negotiation team
Journal-Constitution what the fuck does that mean lmao
It's a zine for spellcasters to share tips on improving their saving throws if they're injured mid-cast.
Genuinely assumed it was The Onion at first. How many made up excuses can there be?
Well yeah the office air isn't mostly vape cloud
Did they take down the article? It gives me 404 error.
Being in a forest is very healing probably partially because there's just so much oxygen in the air
forest > grassland > carless city > suburb street > city street > indoors > indoor office building
Doing my work in a perfect replica of the Command Module of Apollo 1 for maximum healing.
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Air quality is when you're breathing in COVID instead of dust
What else is in the office air? 
What else is in the office air, motherfucker?
Takes a long drag of my house's air aw yeah, that's the good shit.
This is really the best they can do? Pathetic. Mediocre.
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