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Post by IDBUG on Aug 14, 2006 14:26:33 GMT -5
Someone in one of the cubes around me loves to eat the smelliest, nastiest, most foul fishy smelling crap. I don't know who it is because I hear the both of the guys on either side of me eating. I am being sooo gassed out right now. My god, what the hell is wrong with these people? How can something so horrid smelling be even slightly appetizing? At this point I'm missing the curry, big time. And I am this close (|_|) to shoving wadded up napkins up my nose. Seriously. I can't keep my shirt over my nose forever.  I just needed to rant. Have any of you experienced such hell at work? |
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Post by christinev on Aug 14, 2006 18:49:04 GMT -5
You poor thing, My mother-in-law moved in for 4 months last year and I wouldn't let her cook fish for her special diet at my house. It would reek like FOREVER!
I think you should confront these 2 guys head on and just casually say- Um, I sooo hate the smell of fish in the office around lunchtime. Or bring some nasty spray smell that will get their attention and tell them that's what you have to do to get through the fish smell that makes you want to puke. Or ask them to eat it in the lunchroom. Your needs ARE important-the guy eating probably doesn't realize that it reeks.
I know you were just venting, but I wanted to respond
chrisitnev
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Post by - on Aug 14, 2006 18:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by IDBUG on Aug 24, 2006 14:43:01 GMT -5
Thanks guys!
I didn't see your replies until just now (because I just came back to b!tch some more, Mr. Fish guy is at it again, the b@stard). And thanks very much for replying.
ok this reply is a little bit full of tangents... I think I may be coming down with food poisoning (see below)
LOL, someone sent me that cubicle video at work too. I love it. And mine is 1 of over 5000 at my site. If only it was 1 of 62. Man, we'd have football fields of space, and I wouldn't have to deal with mr. fish guy (he brings the food in a tupperware, his wife must make it for him). Peeee-U!!!!
Yeah, I wish I could confront him. He's one of the people who interviewed me, and he's one of the people in charge of one of the projects I'm currently working on. I've thought of several passive-aggressive tactics, like posting a big sign in his doorway that has a fish on it, crossed out in typical no-smoking style.
I really don't have a problem with fish, in general, but my god it is so not fair to eat it in a cube. Especially whatever recipe that is, because it's horrid enough to make me puke-a-rama. (Plus, I ate this crab omelet(sp?) at Mimi's Cafe this morning, and, um, I will never do that again... yuck, I didn't know that crab could be that fishy tasting....)
Hopefully when we go to the new company I won't have to sit by him any more. That and hiding somewhere else while he's eating (we do have wireless networking here, I could possibly just take my laptop elsewhere), are my only recourse.
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Post by christinev on Aug 25, 2006 10:52:26 GMT -5
Hey last night I saw on the show "The Office" they have some kind of contest for 'best office video/blooper' or something like that. Anyway they showed one where there's a bunch of cubicles looking from the top so you can't see the people. Suddenly a tennis ball size rubberband ball flies into one guys cubicle. he picks it up and puts it in his drawer, then pulls out a gi-normous (cantaloupe size) rubberband ball and chucks it back. It doesn't sound that funny when I type it, but after watching 3 episodes in a row on NBC, staring at the stupidity that offices deal with, I literally cracked up. So all you cubicle dwellers, I hope you can step back and see the humor in it. I can't imagine your daily irritations.
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Post by IDBUG on Aug 25, 2006 12:34:07 GMT -5
no, it sounds hilarious. I started watching The Office last night, but I guess I missed that, or flipped to scary ghost stories on the discovery channel or something. I've been working too much to even remember what the hell i've done between getting home and going to bed.
ps I like to randomly fly paper airplanes and shoot rubber bands (singular) over cube walls. I haven't gotten caught yet. (too many of us)
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Post by christinev on Aug 25, 2006 13:46:56 GMT -5
too funny!
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Post by hemight on Aug 28, 2006 9:08:04 GMT -5
After a night of beer drinking and mexican food eating I really enjoy crop dusting the entire cubicle complex and wantch all of the heads pop up to find out where the stench has come from. They always think it was the person next to them.
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Post by IDBUG on Aug 28, 2006 16:17:43 GMT -5
LOL! Yes, we always think it must be the person next to us. Or one of them. Damn cubicles.
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Post by webdominatrix on Aug 29, 2006 21:05:08 GMT -5
Speaking of aaaaarrrrggghhhh, I now know why IDBUG hates minivans as passionately as she does. You see our children attend the same school(as of this year) and they have this God awful parking lot, two lane drop off system. I seriously now contemplate bringing my sons baseball bat for pick up/drop off now.
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Post by IDBUG on Aug 30, 2006 0:47:04 GMT -5
oh hell yeah. I battle those damn minivan people every day, they can't seem to stay in one damn lane EVER, can't stop talking on the phone while driving (probably the main reason they don't stay in one lane), and they often park in the middle of the street (the pullout lane on the busy major street, which is supposed to be for traffic flow, not for stopping), and they seem incapable of paying attention to what's going on around them. I keep thinking I'm such a b!tch for all the grumpy b!tching I do about people's driving in that stupid hell lot. It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks that way. those @ssholes. oh and pickup is an even worse nightmare, because people show up early and wait, and they don't pull all the way forward when they do, and the whole thing clogs up with kids looking for parents and parents looking for kids, etc... then add the heat of the day. I haven't had to deal with that too often, but when I have, it's been scary, thank god for the after school program they have. |
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Post by webdominatrix on Aug 30, 2006 10:36:54 GMT -5
 After school pick up is the one that makes me feel all stabby. Morning isn't too bad cause I wait it out till right before the bell. Pick up though...everyone thinks that their time is way more important than yours. I have seen grown ass people cut into line with their SUV's or minivans. Makes me wanna take Robs 1970 Buick Skylark for pickup. Let those motherfuckers bounce off that tank. Also, I tend to be really cranky from the hours of 2:30pm to 5pm(like most people).
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Post by IDBUG on Aug 30, 2006 16:20:02 GMT -5
After school pick up is the one that makes me feel all stabby. Morning isn't too bad cause I wait it out till right before the bell. Pick up though...everyone thinks that their time is way more important than yours. I have seen grown ass people cut into line with their SUV's or minivans. Makes me wanna take Robs 1970 Buick Skylark for pickup. Let those motherfuckers bounce off that tank. Also, I tend to be really cranky from the hours of 2:30pm to 5pm(like most people). oh yeah, that is nasty time. If I have to pick my daughter up earlier than 4pm, I try to make it any time other than when that zoo is in session. But I am lucky, I usually have a choice of when to pick her up. Yeah, I'm cranky that time of day too. And when I get up in the morning, and.... well, all the time, really. hehe, I'm so glad to be able to do a little ranting about this At drop off this morning and yesterday, I was guilty of letting my kid out in that little turnout lane, but that's because there were 23 minivans/suvs in front of me that couldn't/wouldn't move--the entrance was all clogged up. (What pisses me off is the jerks who STOP there when there is nobody else there and do the clogging all by themselves. And don't even get me started on the $*@%ers who ignore the no left turn sign at the exit, thereby causing near-crashes for anyone trying to get IN to the school as they are leaving ... talk about thinking their time is more important than others'...grrr) What was I saying? Oh yeah ... I let her out at the little walkway there, kissed her goodbye, told her to be safe, and still had time to get out of the way before the line in front of me moved. Jeez. It was nuts. I just hope my daughter remembered to look both ways as those blind mfs did their weaving crap. |
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Post by christinev on Aug 30, 2006 21:49:15 GMT -5
I almost feel bad saying this, but when I signed up my 5 yr old for kindergarten, I specifically requested her to go in the afternoon. The morning kids don't get a bus ride home, why I don't know. So I'm off the hook for that mess. I have been driving kids on and off (mostly ON) for like 10 years now. Although I do pick up my 8th grader 3 times a week, that being an hour round trip-YUCK! So one makes up for the other, but THANK GOD I don't have to do them all simultaneously. Maybe next year, cause I'll have 4 kids in 4 different schools, I'm getting light headed at the thought and I can't breathe. So I must count my extra minutes this year as blessings, because soon they will be gone.
There are so many crappy drivers out there, their all looking out for #1. Every so often I do something stupid and realize I've just been that stupid person. OOPS!!!!!
But what is irritating is that 'the stupid person' surely doesn't see anything wrong with their assonine driving skills-SO sad.
oh and yes I drive a minivan
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I just needed to rant. Have any of you experienced such hell at work?
After school pick up is the one that makes me feel all stabby. Morning isn't too bad cause I wait it out till right before the bell. Pick up though...everyone thinks that their time is way more important than yours. I have seen grown ass people cut into line with their SUV's or minivans. Makes me wanna take Robs 1970 Buick Skylark for pickup. Let those motherfuckers bounce off that tank. Also, I tend to be really cranky from the hours of 2:30pm to 5pm(like most people).