Farting in a small office

Slinky

306chris wrote: »

I am quite sensitive to stuff like that for instance in Cheser they had a shop called Lush that sells homemade soaps and other stuff and I can't walk past it with out my eyes stinging and watering, makes me look like I've been crying my eyes out, not the best look for a six foot bloke.

I can't walk by a Lush shop without being transported back to the Stratford Hotel in San Francisco (not the nicest of hotels) where our room 3 floors up reeked from the smells of the Lush shop nearby wafting up. My husband says exactly the samething.

Cookiee

Well an update ...

I bought 2 x non spray air freshners and hid one behind my monitor and one behind the plant near the glass wall.

All I got all day was it smelled alot fresher and better. I spoke to my manager and said my piece, stating that whilst all the men find the farting game funny the ladies dont. He agreed that it was childish and whilst he could not stop people farting he would ask the engineers to stop coming into the sales side of the glass wall and fart, laugh and walk off.

I said I did not want some big issue made out of it cause it would leave a bad atmosphere between the 2 dept however I did use one of your suggestions and said if it carried on I would leave the office everytime someone did it next to my desk.

So lets see what happens ...

Oh our office was a large open plan but there was a glass partition put up between us in sales which made it small for 6 desks (2 admin and 4 hotdesks for the account managers) and the technical side which normally has 2 admin and the rest engineers (up to 10 a day). They would come pass the sales admin desks and fart whilst heading to the warehouse, laughing. it's not like they were farting in both depts, only when they came pass the sales admin desks (where I sit) and make a joke about it.

dickydonkin

coinxoperated wrote: »

I have an office right next to the mens toilet and if a bloke goes for a no.2 it reeeeeeks out where I work.

So womens s**t smells of Chanel No5 then!

Daedalus

dickydonkin wrote: »

So womens s**t smells of Chanel No5 then!

Ha, there is at least one woman in my office who has a serious medical issue. Guys toilets occasionally smells when you enter, but my god I am gagging walking past the, closed, girls toilets. Last time it happened I was asked why I was upset and crying!

Tygermoth

My office has a feet issue rather than a fart one. Now i should mention here that i have a very strong stomach and i am not prissy in any way, shape or form!

One of the lasses will not put her shoes on while wandering around the office. She has the nastiest cheesiest feet you have ever seen. They smell so ripe, look sweaty and lose skin flakes from between her toes. She just likes them out and has no medical condition that would warrant it because i am SURE she would have told us as she believes its her duty to tell all and sundry the most intimate facts about her life. (she also plays with them while sat at her desk then types or touches stuff...*heave*)

Being that she is the most mouthy, opinionated, stroppy idiot* with an overinflated sense of her value to the company and she wont be told.

So her manager shrugs his shoulders and just laughs saying what can he do.... rather than get in a confrontation with her and because she gets away with it her friend has started to go barefoot too.

I had the same issue with 'H and S say no air fresheners' (but don't H and S also mention appropriate footwear?....mmmmmm?) so i bought an industrial deodoriser (very lightly scented) and hid it in the cables cage under my desk out the way of prying eyes.

Worked a charm. The office round my desk is cheesy feet free (ish) without the nasty cloying odour of fake florals. Job done.

*I will quantify the harsh statement of 'idiot' by enlightening you to an exchange between her and another team member. One of many and not the best but it was yesterdays little gem so popped easily to mind.

Feet: Wow that's like the third glass of water you have had today. You best be careful if you drink to much you can drowned yourself.

Co-worker: (looks up to check to see if being serious or joking.... nope deadly serious) Thats not really physically possible unless extreme circumstances come into play.

Feet: Yes it is! it is! its a f*ckin medical fact, right. You drink to much and it will kill you by drowning. It all backs up and you drowned. So you need to watch out. Your being stupid. To much water. *stabbing her finger at the at the Co-workers glass throughout*

Co-worker: Uhur..Is that so.

Feet: It. Is. A. Medical. Fact. God your so stupid.

Co-worker: *sigh* A few glasses of water a day is not going to hurt me, i am sure i will be just fine.

Feet: (shouts to mate).. Marsha! if you drink to much water you drown right? See! told ya. f*ckin idiot you are, an don't know nuffin. You need to be careful right? what you need to do is switch to juice or tea then you wont have the worry of drowning.

:rotfl:

directdebiter

Is this thread for real?

Can I ask what is the professions of workers in the office? Doesnt the MD say something? "Smells" like a "wind up" to me.

Kyrae

How about getting some strongly scented hand cream? No one can object to you putting some of that on now and then when you want to smell something more pleasant and distract from the stinkyness!!

SuzyZ

I'm quite interested in this as I've worked with people with rhinitis/asthma etc. I'm sure strong perfumes etc must come into play if people use them.

I worked with a lady once who did wear flip-flop type shoes round the office, she had very bad bunions and all year round as PA of the MD of top 5 accountant's firm in UK) wore these shoes. Not very professional but what could you do? I did a double take every time I saw her until I got used to it. Her feet were nice otherwise. She eventually had an operation on both feet so maybe she wears more professional looking shoes now.

I have also worked with tons of people who either have dog breath (coffee) - or cabbage breath (Atkins diet) and one guy who used a very cheap aftershave. You either put up or shut up.

The farting though, is extremely childish but if it works then it works. I'd be tempted to spray a very girly sweet perfume in their area every time I walked by (Impulse?) and see how they liked that? but then you would get complaints for spraying something.

SuzyZ

Kyrae wrote: »

How about getting some strongly scented hand cream? No one can object to you putting some of that on now and then when you want to smell something more pleasant and distract from the stinkyness!!

I don't understand why you can't have fans or is there no decent A/C etc? something must be wrong with the building otherwise for it not to be vented properly.

and yes, I would speak to the cretins involved who think it's funny to fart like school kids. Get HR involved. Then see if they like it. on what grounds IDK could you do this though...

tyllwyd

Cookiee wrote: »

...All I got all day was it smelled alot fresher and better. I spoke to my manager and said my piece, stating that whilst all the men find the farting game funny the ladies dont. He agreed that it was childish and whilst he could not stop people farting he would ask the engineers to stop coming into the sales side of the glass wall and fart, laugh and walk off. ....

If it is women in the sales side and all men in the engineers side, and the engineers are deliberately walking to where the women sit and farting to make the women uncomfortable, I'd say that sounds like bullying with a sex discrimination element. If you wanted to make a fuss and expressed it in those terms HR might be more inclined to take notice.