Monday, April 21, 2008

Office Aroma Etiquette


I just have to put this out there because it was sooo utterly disgusting! I was sitting at my desk, coding, and minding my own business while eating my lunch when my nasal passages were suddenly attacked by a terribly acrid stench!!! I was sooo shocked by the smell I didn't know what to make of it. At first I thought that my nose was going crazy but then when the smell didn't dissipate instantly and it hung around like a thick blanket in the air, I was totally grossed out! I thought maybe it was my pasta, so I bent down to smell my pasta and naturally it wasn't the pasta. Thank GOD! Can you imagine if my pasta smelled like fart?! Oh it was disgusting and I knew my nose wasn't going crazy because I could smell the pasta! So when I picked my head up it was still stenching but it was finally starting to waft off in some other direction. No doubt, to offend the next hapless nose. Ugh! How gross! Let's talk about some office aroma etiquette because whoever the offender was, clearly had NONE!!!


Please, please ... if you have gas ... go take a beano or something! Secondly, if you have gas and the beano hasn't kicked in yet ... please take it to the bathroom! I know the bathroom will wreak horribly but that's the designated place for that sort of wreak! Don't think that you can fart on the sly and get away with it! I know that farting is natural and I don't condemn people who fart, because we ALL do it but in an office where you have co-workers near you in proximity, that's just plain rude! If you have an office with a door that closes, please by all means fart in your own area if you are the only person to be offended by it. Just please keep a can of air freshener or some matches in your desk for "in case of emergency" situations. You know, like when your boss knocks on your door immediately post-fart or a coworker or that cute co-worker you have your eye on. Walking into a room smelling like fart is the fastest way to drive your visitor out! Of course, if you're trying to get rid of your boss or an irritating co-worker this might be beneficial ... but could also backfire as you could end up the laughing stock of the office or worse yet, fired. In short, please don't fart on the silent, you don't know if it'll be odorless or rank. Please don't take chances on other people's olfactory senses like that, it's not polite.

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