Office worker reveals wild theory to explain why no one looks their best at work

If you’ve ever sat at your desk in the office and felt unattractive, this revelation might make you feel better, borderline relieved and vindicated.

Office worker Morgan Miles is going viral on TikTok, where she’s amassed more than 800,000 views, for claiming she knows why you aren’t always looking your best when you’re at your desk.

Does her bold theory involve science? Definitely not. Has it been vetted by experts? Hard no.

Is it striking a chord with thousands of other women online? Absolutely!

“Office air is the most fatal of them all,” she said.

“No matter how good I try to make myself look in the morning. I am going to leave the office looking like I just ran a marathon and washed my face with grease.”

Miles’s theory isn’t totally baseless. Okay, office air isn’t really a thing, but air conditioning that doesn’t agree with you, which is pumped through most offices, isn’t always the magical recipe for looking gorgeous.

Air conditioning can make your skin dry, and then your skin can panic, overcompensate and produce more oil, which can make your skin break out.

The same thing can happen with your hair, air conditioners can suck the moisture out, and then your locks look more flat than fabulous.

So this whole “office air” theory makes sense if you assume she’s really talking about air conditioning.

Although the alternative of no aircon and sweating at your desk while typing doesn’t seem like a recipe for hotness either.

Either way, Miles’s admission that she always feels like she’s leaving the office looking worse for wear deeply resonated with other corporate workers.

Someone said their hair is greasy and flat after working in the office all day and that they feel like a “beast” when they finish work.

Another said the offices “makes me feel ugly” someone else blamed the work bathroom lighting and said it made them feel “atrocious”.

One described the office as a “cold” hell, which is quite the dramatic take, and someone else said their confidence is often “destroyed” by their work’s bathroom lighting.

Someone else said they demand answers because when they work from home, they look “fine”, but when they work from the office, they look “terrible” after around three hours.

One worker was thrilled to see other women discussing that they feel they look bad in the officer because she admitted she thought it was only her but was pleased to hear it was a “universal experience”.

Another blamed her looks falling apart at work on the lack of windows and argued “humans need actual sunlight to survive” and claimed the office makes people “weak” and sick.

Someone else said offices are just like airplanes, and you get the same physical results from being inside them.