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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh, never actually got my actual questions answered. That is why I posted here.

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So are you going to contact your husband's HR dept and say he needs a reasonable accommodation? You're nuts. Please don't have children, being a helicopter wife is just too much. [/quote]

Ok, so you think you are so smart. I'm going to (possibly) waste a few moments setting you straight. First, I never said anything about my husband needing special accommodations, and he doesnt. What I wondered, however, is if alternatives to standard desks are still rare, and it seems they are.

The other point of my original post, which someone undoubtedly sitting at a desk somewhere when they should be working felt the need to troll and then hound me to my next post here, was that[b] IF we want as a society[/b] to follow this piece of health advice, then workplace culture would have to change such that it would be a [b]normal[/b] thing for [b]all [/b]people to get up every 30 minutes and walk around. Because I could see some bosses putting pressure on people to stay put, so, if a person wanted to say HEY, I need to move around every 30 minutes, they might encounter resistance only solved by a special accommodations request. But really, a person shouldnt have to ask permission to do this any more than asking permission to breathe.

Its not "nuts" to want to live. Its also not nuts to care about the health of not just your own spouse but of others in general. So, if you sit a lot, eventhough you are a nasty piece of work, I'd rather you not let your ignorance blind you from this health risk. Remember at one time people who were exercising every day were called nuts.

But you did give me a good idea. If my husband ever does have another life threatening clot, then it would in fact be entirely reasonable to ask for some kind of treadmill desk, if he decided that is how he wanted to do it. [/quote]

You're crazy. And if your husband needs an accommodation let him take care of it himself. [/quote]

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