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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:27.8 | Maureen Jensko was a Weewerk customer in Dallas. |
0:33.0 | She worked in sales for a software company. |
0:36.0 | And when she was at her Weework office, |
0:38.0 | Maureen liked to work in the phone booths. |
0:40.0 | These are small padded rooms that you can step inside to take phone calls and not bother your neighbors. |
0:46.0 | I came into work one day, I just opened up my computer, and up pops an article about how there's |
0:51.7 | formaldehyde in the We work phone booths, which I spent |
0:56.1 | upwards of three hours every day in. Formaldehyde is really bad for you. |
1:01.8 | It's a known carcinogen, and it's sometimes used in building materials, especially in glue. |
1:08.0 | In this case, it was in Wewerks phone booths, where Maureen sat for hours a day breathing in fumes that were |
1:14.2 | possibly toxic. It was extra scary because I was 18 weeks pregnant at the time. My |
1:19.4 | first child, I mean a normal person would be concerned about that let alone so I'm pregnant. |
1:25.3 | We work staff had printed out signs and taped them on the booths. |
1:29.1 | Caution do not use we have been made aware that this film booth doesn't meet our safety standards due to a defect caused by the manufacturer |
1:37.1 | Maureen was understandably freaked out |
1:40.3 | My first thoughts were is there something wrong with my baby? |
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