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khrath
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 Posted: 03/29/04 - 09:40 Post subject: I have solved the realpoor phenomenon
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3571735.stm
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Every last one of you f*****s have this shit, buy some flowers or something.
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Millions of office workers are suffering from a new affliction if the results of a survey are to be believed.
Researchers at NEC-Mitsubishi say the nation's office workers are being hit by "Irritable Desk Syndrome".
They say long working hours, cluttered desks and poor posture are making many people ill.
The company, which makes computer monitors, says regular breaks and making desks more personal could reduce the symptoms of this condition.
Some 2,000 people were questioned as part of the survey. Of these, 67% said they are more tied to their desks than they were two years ago.
Around 40% said they were infuriated by too much clutter and paper on their desks but could not be bothered to do anything about it.
Another 35% said they suffered from back or neck pain because they knowingly sit at their desk in an awkward position.
NEC-Mitsubishi has teamed up with another company Open Ergonomics to produce a simple "Deskology" guide to help people improve their work area.
It advices workers to pay more attention to the way they sit and set up their desk.
"Deskologist" Nigel Robertson, a consultant at Open Ergonomics, urged workers to take the matter seriously.
"What most individuals fail to realise is that desk symptoms typically escalate very quickly, from persistent discomfort to chronic pain which can end a person's career and reduce their quality of life in a wide range of ways.
"The two essentials for less stressful, more productive desk management are: don't endure - act today; and do it yourself - don't wait for someone else to fix it for you."
Richard Jones, head of technical affairs at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, urged employers to do more to ensure employees were not damaging their health at work.
"Employers are required under the law to carry out a risk assessment for employees," he told BBC News Online.
"If they carried out this risk assessment many of these problems could be avoided.
"The whole thrust of the regulations are to improve the ergonomics of work stations. A proper risk assessment should make workstations as adjustable as possible."
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Jakanden
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 09:44 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | The company, which makes computer monitors, says regular breaks and making desks more personal could reduce the symptoms of this condition. |
Yeah - I say a break every 10min should clear it up nicely
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sinrakin
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 09:51 Post subject:
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I've been on a break since Christmas. Well, I actually did some significant work last week, but up until then I'd just been gathering my concentration. So I think I'm relatively safe.
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Celestra
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 10:01 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | I've been on a break since Christmas. Well, I actually did some significant work last week, but up until then I'd just been gathering my concentration. So I think I'm relatively safe. |
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sinrakin
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 10:06 Post subject:
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| Celestra wrote: | | sinrakin wrote: | | I've been on a break since Christmas. Well, I actually did some significant work last week, but up until then I'd just been gathering my concentration. So I think I'm relatively safe. |
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Do I detect similar work habits?
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Minion
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 10:18 Post subject:
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I stopped here and said wtf.
| Quote: | | making desks more personal could reduce the symptoms of this condition |
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Celestra
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 10:22 Post subject:
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| sinrakin wrote: | | Celestra wrote: | | sinrakin wrote: | | I've been on a break since Christmas. Well, I actually did some significant work last week, but up until then I'd just been gathering my concentration. So I think I'm relatively safe. |
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Do I detect similar work habits? |
I'm well versed in the art of procrastination if that's what you mean ;p
| Quote: | | Procrastination is good. But there's no feeling like saying "I could procrastinate about this, and drag it out for a hell of a long time. But you know what? f**k it. I'm just not doing it. Not now. Not later. Not ever. What's the worst that could happen?". You should start with procrastination though and ease into it - nobody's expecting you to start blowing things off without working up to it. It takes hard work to make it to the big leagues. |
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atarom
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 18:35 Post subject:
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lofoflzle
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wellspoken
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 19:59 Post subject:
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w t f
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Zwadrich
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 20:21 Post subject:
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saddam has nuclear yellow cake
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Occulis
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 21:36 Post subject:
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Makes sense. You can call it ergonomics or feng shui or whatever you want. Your environment is a continual reminder and recurring force for whatever mood you are aiming for.
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Tiluvas
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 21:51 Post subject:
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All the people with plants at their desk at my office annoy the f**k out of me.
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Occulis
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Posted: 03/29/04 - 22:00 Post subject:
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My area in the office (8 cubes there) doesn't have any natural sunlight at all. 
... free coffee though!
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Hohrer
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Posted: 03/30/04 - 00:09 Post subject:
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deskologist..........
plz someone bring on armageddon, this shit has gone too far
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Renork
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I told my parents tonight that I cant wait for WW3 to clean up the world, my Mom yelled at me and my Dad just shook his head and laughed.
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Regan
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Posted: 03/30/04 - 18:30 Post subject:
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Those guys at NEC's greatist accomplishment was coming up with the job title 'deskologist' that soooo sounds like one of the ultimate b******t jobs, just on a purely corperate lvl! I fully expect to see numerous Dilbert Strips poking fun at this 
Btw, I'm a fully acredited deskologist from my years of studying my desk, anyone care to have me review their company for an undisclosed consultancy fee for a couple of months while I live off a borrowed expense accnt? ^_^
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sinrakin
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Posted: 03/30/04 - 18:44 Post subject:
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At the moment, my desk features:
- a gym bag
- gloves, 2 pairs socks, jock, headband, towel, vest, tights, shirt, jacket spread out to dry
- 5 running books scattered around
- printed digital photos from the next traffic ticked I'm going to fight if they ever give me a court date
- random loose change
- a 3D stereoscopic photo viewer
- a heart rate monitor and GPS
- coffee cup
- two beer bottles, both half full
- 8 empty water bottles
- 11 mostly empty cardboard coffee cups
- binoculars for watching the hawk that tends to sit in the tree outside my window
- 5 boxes of various kinds of tea
- 2 laptops and a desktop system
- uncountably many yellow legal pad pages with incomprehensible scribbling that must have been important at one time
- several random piles several inches high of specifications that I probably don't need anymore but you never know
- a bunch of cables, must of which I know what they're for, a few I don't remember
- a bottle of cough medicine
- a bottle of aspirin
- 10 CDs
- headphones
- 3 technical books I don't own, and missing spaces for all the books I do own that other people have taken
- printed sheet on how to use the voicemail system that's been there since I moved in
So that sounds pretty healthy, right?
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Zwadrich
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Posted: 03/30/04 - 18:51 Post subject:
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on my mini desk (my room is large enough to fit in 1 bed and a mini desk =/)
about 400 CD's all pilled up. Computer, empty water bottle, orange juice, 5 empty sig packs, 3 filled ashtrays. 2 prizes i won this year with my band, my physics test for thursday 
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