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Motion sickness at work?

 
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Anybody in here besides me ever work in a high-rise that shakes and rolls in the wind -- all the time?? I'm only on the 5th floor, out of 8 I think. I guess it's technically not very high ... but I'm starting to get a bit queasy these days. Queesy? Queasy? Possibly queezy. Hmmmm.
 
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You sure it's not frpm playing ConterStrike all day instead of working?
 
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I've been close to elevators or HVAC in buildings and felt very strange. Subsonic vibrations or something. I'm currently on the 2nd floor of a 3 story bulding and the floor is way too springy. If you're not sitting near a column it can get bouncing pretty well when somebody stomps by.
 
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I had that problem. Seems to come from staring at the monitor for too long. Then, when something causes the building to move, whammo! My cure was to switch to an LCD monitor. I'm thinking that the lack of monitor flashing due to the sync circuitry's refresh rate has something to do with my "recovery".

(I'm no longer working for that company anyway. But I wasn't the only one there who had that problem, because a few coworkers spoke up after I complained. Seems they were somehow embarrassed to claim dizziness and nausea in work.)
 
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I worked on the 70th floor of Tower 2 at the World trade center. On windy days you could feel the builidng sway and you could hear the echos running up the stairwells. A couple of times in the 10 years I was there it was so windy they sent everyone home.
 
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
I worked on the 70th floor of Tower 2 at the World trade center. On windy days you could feel the builidng sway and you could hear the echos running up the stairwells. A couple of times in the 10 years I was there it was so windy they sent everyone home.



I wonder if this kind of issue will have been taken into account for the new building being put up there.

I once felt a similar thing at a football game. I was sitting in the top row of a stand, and when my team scored everyone jumped up and down a lot (it doesn't happen very often) and the whole stand began swaying around. The amazing thing is that stands at football grounds in the UK cannot be more then 30 degrees steep, so its surprising that the thing was swaying around so much.
 
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Does anyone else feel queasy when talking on a mobile phone? When I'm talking on mine I get a funny wibbly feeling in my ear and I quite often feel a bit sick. When I think about how a mobile phone signal has enough power to make that funny "dutdadadutdadadut" sound come out of speakers that are turned off, it does worry me what its doing to the inside of my head.

Years back when I was at school I was doing a maths project with a friend of mine. One evening, each at our own home, we were writing up the project and needed to discus a lot, so we decided to write it up while discussing it on the phone. My parents had an early mobile phone that had some kind of "free calls at the weekend" type deal, so I used that. This being the days before hands-free kit, I had to hold the phone up to my head, which got a bit tiring and meant drawing diagrams for the project was difficult. I decided to implement my own hands-free mechanism by using a belt to tie the phone to the side of my head, leaving both hands free. While this worked a treat, it did have a couple of quite bad side effects (apart from making me look like a wally). The phone itself was about the same size and weight as a self-respecting brick, which made my neck ache, but also having a phone up against the side of my head for two hours gave me a very bad headache. I dread to think how many brain cells were fried over those two hours - its not like I had many spare as it was.
 
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