When I work night shift, I don't have to wear formal office attire to work. It will be either collared T-shirt or round-necked T-shirt with jeans or slacks for me. I have one Hewlett-Packard F1 collared T-shirt and a Nikon T-shirt with a zip in the middle. What both T-shirt have in common is that both are made of polyester and this cause a problem.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not allergic to polyester in fact I'm quite comfortable wearing T-shirt made from polyester material. Comfortable just as long as I'm not sitting in a wrong full of PCs. When I'm working, I have to sit in a room with at least 50 PCs running 24/7. Just one hour sitting in the room wearing my HP or Nikon T-shirt, I will feel very uneasy. This uneasiness can't be explained, it's just that like you just have to get out from the room.
At first, I still am not sure what is wrong with me. Then one day I went to the toilet to do my business, and I accidentally touch my HP T-shirt with the steel pipe. It created some static sound. Sound that you hear when you touch a metal and suddenly you felt an electric shock, it won't kill of course. Lucky is that I didn't get shock but just felt a lot of static around the T-shirt.
I took off my T-shirt and place it close to the steel hose and guess what? More static sound, I can even hear static sound when I took off my T-shirt. I move the T-shirt around the steel hose until I don't hear any more static sound. I put on the T-shirt back on and I don't feel the uneasiness already, I even felt lighter.
After this experience in the toilet, every 2-3 hours I'll go to the toilet, take off my T-shirt and 'de-staticise' it. Nowadays, if there's a choice I will not wear T-shirt made of polyester to work. Cotton don't have this kind of problem. I read that some where that too much static in the body is not good for health and wearing polyester 'trapped' the static. Oh my god, does this mean that my T-shirt is killing me softly slowly?
P.S. I'm not sure whether it will be safe to use the petrol pump when wearing clothes filled with static. Scary.
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lol like that also can!
u r not bad. i have casual wear whenever there is no meeting with client :)
'de-staticise'... o_O
hahahaaaa.....
btw how's ur training previous week ? and the cheese cake ?
That's super scary. I only know that my hair has static.
And my sister too.
Each time she touches me, I'll go zap. =P
david: Trust me, it can one.
haan: good, as long as it's not polyester.
ling: Training went well. Cheese cake a bit too pricey for my standard. I tried the Korean restaurant in 3rd floor. Not bad.
Michelle: I used to get zap in my previous company touching the metal door knob. Now got metal door knob phobia.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH really one ah polyester shirts eat up all the static? I have been shocking myself on the office chair every day T_T
i don't wear poly material... especially in the computer room :-> Otherwise, i will be an electric man walking around the office discharging static... whoever come close to me got the shock :-p LoL
michbaby: yes, polyester keep static now if got choice I choose to wear cotton to work. In my previous company I also always get shock.
TZ: LOL.
yeap, the korean restaurant is good, but sometimes the waiting time can be very long....
ling: go early lor lol ;)
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