Because of some architectural quirk, our
So someone brought in one of those three-foot tall fans that has two settings, 1) rotating, or 2) stationary.
As we'll explain below, there are all sorts of problems with bringing one of these fans into the office. But they can all be fixed if you do one simple thing: Point the fan at the wall.
[UPDATE: After a week of empirical data, we found out that this trick doesn't
The problem: There are multiple people who need to be serviced by this fan. See:
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The fan can either 1) rotate, or 2) be pointed at one person.
The rotating office fan is the worst. It gives you anxiety because you always expect it to rotate back to you before it does. It also does that thing where there's a brief, unbearable moment of stale air right after it rotates away from you.
But having it pointed at one person is even worse than that. Everyone is hot, and the one person is getting bombarded with non-stop air.
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To fix this problem, we pointed the fan at the wall so that the air spray in every direction at one. Put it about a foot or so away:
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Aim it at the middle of the wall:
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And kaboom! You get both superior range of the rotating fan and the constant coolness of the stationary fan, but without the side effects.
Perfect:
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