Our office smells like shit. And mold. And…

Think of the worst smell you can imagine. Now flex your stomach muscles to start an involuntary reaction that'll force you to throw up a little bit in your mouth. Welcome to our office. It usually smells like shit, literally. I'm not saying it smells like shit to just to exaggerate or to be crass. It's actually shit. There's a sewer gas leak that has gone unfixed for about six months.

When we have a reprieve from the poo cloud hovering around us, we're comforted by the sweet stingy smell of mold settling in to our alveoli where our bodies can process them and turn the mold into a host of physical ailments. I assume you can survive smelling puffs of poop toxins. People work around it all the time in processing facilities. But, I'm confident the mold is slowly killing me. And something that doesn't require an objective opinion on is the fact that it reduces productivity.