Was yelled at for being a disturbance on the office walking station today

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  • Officewalkerman

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    9 years ago 12/17/2014 6:01pm EST

    So, I'll make this short. We recently got a new treadmill work station. It was placed near some cubicles across from mine. I finally decided to use it today while responding to emails. It only goes 2.5 miles per hour and is pretty quiet in my opinion.

    Long story SHORT. While walking on it, I was approached by another office employee to please make it quick because I was disturbing his work. UM...say what? Yeah, he said that. I looked at him in surprise, and said "the walking station was put here by the company and others have been using this for weeks...how am I doing anything wrong". He grumbled a bit, grabbed his computer, and walked out of the room.

    Later that day, I saw him again coming from a meeting. As I passed him, I stopped and said "Hey Tom, burned 654 calories sending emails today...I'M BACK BABY". He walked away.

    I really did this. Anyone else have a walking station at the office?

  • registered

    Ted Underhill

    Member since 02/25/2011.

    813 posts. Last post 5 years ago.
    9 years ago 12/17/2014 6:16pm EST
    re: Officewalkerman

    I thought you were going to make it short. What did you leave out of the full length version?

  • Gary Oldman

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 12/17/2014 6:31pm EST
    re: Ted Underhill

    It's probably because you ramped it up to a speed that is detectable to the human eye.

    Everyone else using it probably appeared stationary and less of a disturbance to the visual landscape of cubicleland.

  • me too....

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 12/17/2014 6:33pm EST
    re: Ted Underhill

    Ted Underhill wrote:

    I thought you were going to make it short. What did you leave out of the full length version?

    I'm also very curious as to what bits you left out, please give us the longer more informative version of this story! Doesn't Tom have a last name? What was he wearing? Is Tom married? Does he have kids? Why can't you just tell us! Why?!

  • Chewbacca

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 12/17/2014 6:35pm EST
    re: Officewalkerman

    You're the weird guy who screamed at a hippy in the cafeteria, aren't you?

  • Surprise!

    Member since 09/22/2003.

    5,895 posts. Last post 9 hours ago.
    9 years ago 12/17/2014 6:35pm EST
    re: Officewalkerman

    Officewalkerman wrote:

    So, I'll make this short. We recently got a new treadmill work station. It was placed near some cubicles across from mine. I finally decided to use it today while responding to emails. It only goes 2.5 miles per hour and is pretty quiet in my opinion.

    Long story SHORT. While walking on it, I was approached by another office employee to please make it quick because I was disturbing his work. UM...say what? Yeah, he said that. I looked at him in surprise, and said "the walking station was put here by the company and others have been using this for weeks...how am I doing anything wrong". He grumbled a bit, grabbed his computer, and walked out of the room.

    Later that day, I saw him again coming from a meeting. As I passed him, I stopped and said "Hey Tom, burned 654 calories sending emails today...I'M BACK BABY". He walked away.

    I really did this. Anyone else have a walking station at the office?

    If you burned 654 calories at 2.5 mph, you were on that for a long, long time!

  • officewalkerman

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 12/17/2014 7:44pm EST
    re: Surprise!

    I don't think you realize how many emails I get every day!!!! I booked the thing for most of today.

  • Mathematical Genius

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    9 years ago 12/17/2014 8:46pm EST
    re: Surprise!

    Surprise! wrote:

    If you burned 654 calories at 2.5 mph, you were on that for a long, long time!

    654 / 100 calories per mile / 2.5 mph x 60 = 157 minutes

  • Gary Oldman

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    9 years ago 12/17/2014 8:59pm EST
    re: Mathematical Genius

    Mathematical Genius wrote:

    Surprise! wrote:

    If you burned 654 calories at 2.5 mph, you were on that for a long, long time!

    654 / 100 calories per mile / 2.5 mph x 60 = 157 minutes

    Maybe he wasn't going at max speed. He was probably using the "fat burning zone" that all those machines have.

  • left foot slapper

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 12/18/2014 12:30am EST
    re: Gary Oldman

    OP is probably like the guy who always walks on the end treadmill between 9:30 and 10:30 am at my fitness center. pst slap pst slap pst slap pst slap pst slap etc.

    Very annoying.

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