A health and sanity check

Sitting at your desk from dawn to dusk, breakfast until dinner is a good way to develop a spare tyre around your middle, a deathly pallor and to fall out with your colleagues in IT, BusinessWeek (July 21) reports.

As well as a deluge of calls about printers developing a personality of their own and ignoring commands, tech support are constantly bothered by food-related mishaps. During a typical one-month period, 56 per cent of tech trouble-shooters are called in to clear up at least one messy eater's mess, a US survey has found. Believe it or not but workers regularly complain about keyboards sabotaged by crumbs and crisps inserted into the CD drive.

But my personal favourite is a story from Jon Aumann, a field-agent manager for Geek Squad, a tech-support firm, who once unscrewed a computer tower to find a sandwich with a bite taken out of it. So it's official: work makes people weird. Now, where did I put my lunch?

Scary close-up courtesy of www.cleaningexpert.co.uk