I’m currently at work - right now is about that time of year where the heaters kick on and all the dust starts burning off and we can smell it. We caught smell of something odd, i compared it to burning plastic, and we figured it was just the heaters.

Our business neighbors a few hundred feet down called us, and asked if we could smell something weird? I told them yeah, we were just talking about it. She was saying it was making some of their people sick and that she was going to call the leasing company and see what they said, i told her to just let us know if they find out anything.

This all happens rights as i’m about to go on break. So i clock out and leave my office, walk outside and get a huge whiff of gas. it makes me almost immediately nauseous. i look around to see if any buildings are showing smoke and i didn’t see any. i ended up calling the non emergency and telling them all this. they said fire dept was on their way.

literally 5 trucks and ambulances pull up in 30 seconds, im not even kidding. i call my office to tell them (which i feel is where my embarrassment starts.) told them the dispatcher told me they were coming and blah blah blah, and they ask “you called them?” then suddenly in the background i hear multiple people go “who called them?” then people answering with my name. this is when i’m getting really embarrassed. i wonder if i should’ve not called, if i should’ve told someone before i did instead of jumping on it. i literally am sitting in my car in the parking lot and i feel like i want to die. i feel the blood in my face and i’m having a panic attack of going back in once my break is over.

it seems they may have found the issue a few suites down, they’ve moved on from our office. when they did come it seemed like they just did a quick walkthrough with a measuring instrument and found nothing.

im just freaking out. i feel stupid and embarrassed.