Working from the Ironing Board
Oct. 3rd, 2023 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerPhoenix/Vegas Trip log #4
In my hotel room - Tue, 3 Oct 2023. 1pm
When I got my room at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas last night they told me they had an upgrade for me (hooray!) but it'd have to be a mobility accessible room (boo?). I accepted it because I figured I could make it work, but really I should have refused it. The main way hotels make rooms accessible to wheelchair users is by removing furniture. Sometimes it's a sofa or an armchair. This time it was a desk. There was no table or desk I could work at.
Now, I need to do work at this conference. I have a few deliverables my boss is demanding, plus I have a few Zoom meetings to attend. I need a place to work at my computer— and it can't be sprawled out across the bed. So I improvised this morning... by setting up the ironing board to sub in as a computer desk!
I've noted before that working remotely isn't just "work from home" (WFH) but work from anywhere. Now I know I can work from an ironing board. 🤣
Though there was still the problem that there were no electrical sockets within reach of my computers. 😡
This worked for a while, but I was pretty pissed about it. Finally I called down to the front desk to tell them I needed a room change. They agreed to swap my room but said it'd be a while as we needed to wait for housekeeping to clean one. They called me back around noon. I was already downstairs working at the show, but I made time to come back up to my room to repack my bag, trundle it to my new room, and re-unpack it.
My new room is the same size as the old one but with a different layout. The position of the bed area and sitting area is reversed; the bed is next to the balcony door/windows. And, most importantly, there's a wide (though not very deep) table at desk height in the sitting area, along with an appropriately shaped task chair.
In my hotel room - Tue, 3 Oct 2023. 1pm
When I got my room at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas last night they told me they had an upgrade for me (hooray!) but it'd have to be a mobility accessible room (boo?). I accepted it because I figured I could make it work, but really I should have refused it. The main way hotels make rooms accessible to wheelchair users is by removing furniture. Sometimes it's a sofa or an armchair. This time it was a desk. There was no table or desk I could work at.
Now, I need to do work at this conference. I have a few deliverables my boss is demanding, plus I have a few Zoom meetings to attend. I need a place to work at my computer— and it can't be sprawled out across the bed. So I improvised this morning... by setting up the ironing board to sub in as a computer desk!
I've noted before that working remotely isn't just "work from home" (WFH) but work from anywhere. Now I know I can work from an ironing board. 🤣
Though there was still the problem that there were no electrical sockets within reach of my computers. 😡
This worked for a while, but I was pretty pissed about it. Finally I called down to the front desk to tell them I needed a room change. They agreed to swap my room but said it'd be a while as we needed to wait for housekeeping to clean one. They called me back around noon. I was already downstairs working at the show, but I made time to come back up to my room to repack my bag, trundle it to my new room, and re-unpack it.
My new room is the same size as the old one but with a different layout. The position of the bed area and sitting area is reversed; the bed is next to the balcony door/windows. And, most importantly, there's a wide (though not very deep) table at desk height in the sitting area, along with an appropriately shaped task chair.
