Aroma – Therapy
A recent change in desk location in my office has sparked new life into one of the daily annoyances of office life. This was the third relocation I’ve had to endure over the last 2 or 3 months, and the 2nd of those locations was just about perfect.
I had my own office, with actual walls to shield me from all of the annoying people around me. But most of all, I was shielded from the vast array of weird and disgusting smells that waft thorough the office every few minutes. From the cigarette stench on people walking back in from the smoking hut just outside to the horrible, acrid stink of my female coworkers that seemingly bathe in gallons of perfume every morning before bringing the stink to work.
As you may have gathered, following the latest of my relocations, I’m right back in the centre of aroma alley.
The thing with odours is that you can’t just block them out like you can with noise. You can’t wedge in some kind of nostril plugs and just allow people to go about their stinking day all around you. It’s just unpleasant and unnecessary.
In addition to the onslaught of women’s perfume, the general office stink routinely consists of other people’s food – most often being highly aromatic curry. I have no issue with curry as a dish. But what I do object to is people stopping work for an hour and having a full fucking hot meal at their desk. And when that meal is a supremely strong smelling curry, it only makes the whole situation even less bearable. I swear, some people are one step away from installing a fucking stove at their desk and whipping up an entire 3 course meal at 12 every day.
You’re not normal!
Eat a sandwich at your desk or fuck off to the canteen!
The guy behind me in my new location is exceptionally guilty of this nose pollution. He is a smoker, and brings the smell of tobacco to my desk. It’s not even the normal horrible smokey smell either. He has a really rich, strong aroma of loose tobacco that smells sweet and fruity as well as the usual smoke smell. To make it worse, when returning from his trips outside to smoke, that’s only when it’s at it’s strongest. He smells of this shit ALL THE TIME.
Seriously, I don’t want to come across as a miserable asshole EVERY day of my life, but doesn’t ANYONE see that this behaviour is unreasonable?
MisterShouty 