[RL/Work/Mute]

I feel like such a dick for saying this because i know there's plenty of people (2017 me, included) who would give anything to be allowed to work from home during something like this, because it's so much safer, but I am fucking miserable, you guys.

My neck muscles are rock hard. My lower back is dully aching. My ass is killing me; like my tailbone feels like it's on fire. It feels like someone is standing behind me and repeatedly stabbing me in both shoulderblades.

I fucking hate this.

I don't have the money to go buy a desk and proper chair so I'm trying to make due with my dining room table and, not even kidding, a lawn chair.

The only other kind of chair I have in my house is an accent chair that scoops too low for me to be able to reach the table sitting in it.

I can't use the coffee table and couch because there's no outlet near enough and even if there was, the coffee table is too low. The breakfast bar is too low to stand at but too high for chairs. There's nowhere I can set up my shit and not be hunched over to work and I'm in so much pain I literally feel like crying.

...and I just needed to get that out of my system. Is anyone else working from home for this fucking pandemic having these issues and want to commiserate with me so that I don't feel like such a giant bag of dicks?

It’s real weird and hard to get comfortable, and I have a desk and chair. It’s just cramped and uncomfortable

I wish I could be productive on a single monitor bc I'd just curl up on the couch and put the laptop on the arm of the couch.

God same

Even with one monitor and my laptop it’s hard. The laptop is half the size of my monitor

I honestly wish I could be enjoying the fact that I'm saving gas money and 2 hours of commuting a day but this is the worst.

Yeah same here

At least a quarter of the pain is coming from having to lean so close to the laptop bc the screen is too small for what I'm working on

Ugh

I think it would help if I got up and moved around every 30-60 minutes but since I love what I do, I literally lose track of time. I worked half an hour over two days this week without even noticing. I would have to set an alarm every 30 minutes or something lol

Even if I did that, I would often it until I got to "a good stopping point" so

Hmmm maybe you should try drying an alarm though, getting up and moving will probably help

I mean I can set one but I take lunch like two hours late sometimes to get to a good stopping point and that's a fat girl ignoring food lol so idk that an alarm to stretch will be any different. Doesn't hurt to try I suppose

I am definitely feeling it in my neck and shoulders from sitting all day without any interruptions getting up and moving around

not as bad as you but you aren't alone...

I'm assuming you aren't able to rearrange your furniture in the apartment better?

maybe we can harass each other throughout the day to get up and stretch more tho?? I am on calls a lot so I can't always stop either but we can definitely do better than "never" LOL

It's not really the placement of the furniture so much as the height incompatibility of surfaces and seating options... Yeah maybe it'd be good if instead of just being in charge of our own stretching, we're in charge of each other's? Then when we're bugging the other person, we stretch while we're at it or something

social accountability is an extremely effective method for modifying human behavior

The Research tells me this

do you think you could ask your brother and his partner if they have a chair you can borrow? that's my last ditch suggestion hahah

Lol they're over here every day bc they're on the same situation

At least I have a table

omg fuckin RIP

I would lend you a chair if I could...

Lol I appreciate the thought!!