So, here I am, sitting in my cube, listening to my music, minding my own business (I know a few co-workers who could afford to learn how to do this), and I smell something....fishy. I. Hate. Fish. I hate the smell, the look, the taste...everything. I politely ask my co-worker if she smells something, to which she responds "It smells like crunchy, old, fish sticks". Gross.
I take my co-workers Lysol and spray around my cube area, hoping to mask the horrid, vomit inducing smell of microwaved salmon. This does the trick for about 5 minutes. At this point I am gagging. My nose is in my sweatshirt. I am officially on the verge of a breakdown. So far today I have cleaned out snow from my car (thanks dad, for moving my car last night, but I could have done without the window open and all the snow in the passenger's seat), slided down our mountain aka our hill, and slipped in the parking lot at work (again). I am MAD right now. Why must people eat and even HEAT UP salmon at work?? Can't you save that for when you are in the privacy of your own home? I don't understand. I won't even bring in an Everything bagel for fear that it will "stink up" the office (not to mention my breath) and make everyone upset.
HOW DARE YOU EAT SALMON IN YOUR CUBE??? ARE YOU ON DRUGS??? Why would you do something so awful? To make everyone else sick to their stomachs??
At this point, the entire department is complaning. My boss, who is normally too busy to speak, suddenly shouts out "WHO IS EATING RAW SALMON????" at which point everyone bursts out in laughter becuase we are all thinking the same thing.
Just another day at the office....
Do YOU have any office pet peeves??
(P.S.- I acutally looked around the department for the offender. I think it was the freakishly tall lady who can see over the stalls in the bathroom.)
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I would think most people would agree that eating fish (of all forms) in the office should be banned. Or are we the minority because we have an aversion to fish? Perhaps you should send around a petition.... Jus thinkin.
ReplyDeleteHaha. I agree. I also had a coworker who enjoyed eating smelly food at lunch- tuna fish with leftover Indian food mixed in there, God knows what else, and some of his own spices added for fun. I was often forced to flee and take my lunch at the same time as the offensive eate,r since he insisted on eating it at his workbench. The problem was that after lunch the stench would linger for hours. I think that there should be general human decency rules, one of them being to mind your stinky food manners and only eat nasty, smelly meals in the privacy of your own home...not that I'm scarred by my own experiences or anything :)
ReplyDeleteA little lindberger cheese on that fish will fix the smell.
ReplyDeleteTip from Tim
How about a new post there girls?
ReplyDeleteWhat's your worst winter experience? You got plenty of stories.