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Post by jemmls4 on Mar 3, 2017 19:02:26 GMT
Holy crap. I cannot begin to describe how distracting and annoying this is. It's not a small little sniff, but full on sucking up snot.
I'm not joking when I say I can hear him through my headphones playing music at a level probably not safe for my hearing. I'm timing it...at it's worst he is sniffing every three seconds!!!!! This morning he was at a rate of 13/2 minutes.
How do you even broach the subject? It's out of control. A box of Kleenex and some sudafed on his desk would probably be considered bad manners, but jeez! I am ready to do violence.
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Post by snugglebutter on Mar 3, 2017 19:38:27 GMT
"Oh, you must have ran out of tissues!" - plunking a box down while you pass by his desk, leaving the area quickly before he has a chance to respond.
(If I had the nerve, I could pull off something like that. More likely, I would suffer it out and stew in my murderous thoughts towards him.)
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Post by styxgirl on Mar 3, 2017 19:39:01 GMT
Holy crap. I cannot begin to describe how distracting and annoying this is. It's not a small little sniff, but full on sucking up snot. I'm not joking when I say I can hear him through my headphones playing music at a level probably not safe for my hearing. I'm timing it...at it's worst he is sniffing every three seconds!!!!! This morning he was at a rate of 13/2 minutes. How do you even broach the subject? It's out of control. A box of Kleenex and some sudafed on his desk would probably be considered bad manners, but jeez! I am ready to do violence. Aaaaaack! This is totally driving me crazy at just the thought of it! Yep, Box of Kleenex and decongestant would be a great hint! I would totally do this! ;-) Probably not the decongestant because I wouldn't want to put any real money out on Mr. Pleghmy Dripnose. LOL |
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Post by craftykitten on Mar 3, 2017 19:41:36 GMT
I would take him tissues and tell him his sniffing is revolting. But I am short on patience today!
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Post by J u l e e on Mar 3, 2017 19:41:38 GMT
HE MUST DIE!
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Post by Zee on Mar 3, 2017 21:14:31 GMT
Cock-punch him and leave a mound of tissues on his crotch. Fucker.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 21:20:49 GMT
 Do it.
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Post by annabella on Mar 3, 2017 21:23:58 GMT
My office is an open layout, that means 5 men sit around me who blow their nose all the time! Our desks were set up with klennex boxes on them which I think encourages this behavior. I have said the polite thing to do is blow your nose in the bathroom but they don't care.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 3, 2017 21:43:34 GMT
Ugh, we are experiencing this very thing at work. On Tuesday 4 people moved from upstairs to the vacant desks near my department. One of the girls is a constant sniffer. She is from a country where it is completely acceptable and in fact preferable to sniff rather than blow your nose. Another sniffer used to sit near me and I throught I was going to go insane. But being the non-confrontational type I never said anything, just huffed and puffed and swore under my breath. Fortunately she left a couple of months ago. But now we have another one. The woman who has to now sit next to the new sniffer told us yesterday that she is going to talk to the girl and if she doesn't stop she is going to go to HR about it. I don't know how the sniffer is going to stop a habit that she'd had all her life.
One of the girls in my team was telling us yesterday that she used to work with a guy who did the massive sucking up snot snorts. She lost it one day and yelled at him that he was disgusting and need to stop RIGHT NOW! Quite funny really, because she's even less confrontational than I am.
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Post by joyfuljune on Mar 3, 2017 22:22:53 GMT
OMG, how I can relate!!
I have a coworker who has seriously been sick with something ALL winter. Colds, coughs, you name it. I sit near this person, and for weeks I have listened to gross throat clearing, hacking-up-a-lung coughs, moaning, sighing, sniffling EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I swear, I'm not exaggerating when I say every damn day! UGH Some days, I have to leave my desk and go visit other co workers who aren't near this person JUST so I can get a break from it all. I feel bad that this person is sick so much, but for some reason, they won't take meds. "I hate medicine!" I'm not making this up.
There have been several times that I have really wanted to scream, and I literally catch myself clenching my fists at times.
Whew. I feel better now!
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Post by berty on Mar 3, 2017 22:46:39 GMT
OMG, how I can relate!! but for some reason, they won't take meds. "I hate medicine!" I'm not making this up. Oh good gravy! I think it's time you made this person some special brownies just for him/her - the kind with extra chocolate chips and sudafed. Just don't share the recipe! (Disclaimer- I'm just kidding. Please, don't anyone think I'd really advocate secretly drugging anyone.  ) |
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 3, 2017 22:56:40 GMT
I taught fifth grade. You will live. You will be gray haired and angry, but you will live. I kind of hoped my fifth grade boys would grow out of this phase. My rule was sniff twice, get a dang Kleenex.
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Post by heather on Mar 4, 2017 0:23:45 GMT
This week I had to deal with someone that had a dry cough. All day every day. I turned on my headphones as loud as I could stand it to try to block the noise, but couldn't. This should be a short term problem. I don't know how I would handle it if it was a long term thing. I'd probably run screaming and jazz handing out of the office before a month was over.
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Post by freebird on Mar 4, 2017 0:30:34 GMT
I dunno, I'm pretty blunt. My response would be "Do you have a cold? Your sniffing is crazy loud today" *plonk* as I set down a box of tissues.
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Post by Really Red on Mar 4, 2017 14:40:16 GMT
jemmls4 Hope you survived. I have misophonia and this stuff makes me want to pull out my hair. If you're at the point of timing his sniffles, I'd bring over a box of Kleenex. At least it's the weekend!!!
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Post by salem on Mar 4, 2017 14:47:54 GMT
People are gross.
I get it. The dude sitting one cubicle down on the other side from me has been sniffling and this disgusting throat clearing noise for weeks. Makes me gag. Headphones don't block it all out.
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Post by teddyw on Mar 4, 2017 17:41:25 GMT
Ugh, we are experiencing this very thing at work. On Tuesday 4 people moved from upstairs to the vacant desks near my department. One of the girls is a constant sniffer. She is from a country where it is completely acceptable and in fact preferable to sniff rather than blow your nose. Another sniffer used to sit near me and I throught I was going to go insane. But being the non-confrontational type I never said anything, just huffed and puffed and swore under my breath. Fortunately she left a couple of months ago. But now we have another one. The woman who has to now sit next to the new sniffer told us yesterday that she is going to talk to the girl and if she doesn't stop she is going to go to HR about it. I don't know how the sniffer is going to stop a habit that she'd had all her life. One of the girls in my team was telling us yesterday that she used to work with a guy who did the massive sucking up snot snorts. She lost it one day and yelled at him that he was disgusting and need to stop RIGHT NOW! Quite funny really, because she's even less confrontational than I am. In what country is this acceptable? I can't even imagine. |
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Post by anniefb on Mar 4, 2017 18:21:48 GMT
Ugh this is what I'm not looking forward to. We are moving to a new building and going all open plan. At the moment, I still have my own office.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 4, 2017 22:49:22 GMT
One of the girls is a constant sniffer. She is from a country where it is completely acceptable and in fact preferable to sniff rather than blow your nose. In what country is this acceptable? I can't even imagine. In Japan and China it is considered rude to blow your nose in public and is much more acceptable to sniff instead. So if we were working in an Asian country and started blowing our noses at our desk, they would probably find us as disgusting as we find the sniffers! |
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 4, 2017 22:54:55 GMT
One guy I work with is always spitting into his waste basket... sooo disgusting... thankfully I don't share an office with him.. My boss who I do share an office with is pretty good about bodily functions.. as the back of his chair is right next to the back of mine!! lol.. but he can't hear a damn thing, so I am yelling most of the day at him...
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Post by J u l e e on Mar 5, 2017 1:11:37 GMT
One guy I work with is always spitting into his waste basket... sooo disgusting... thankfully I don't share an office with him.. My boss who I do share an office with is pretty good about bodily functions.. as the back of his chair is right next to the back of mine!! lol.. but he can't hear a damn thing, so I am yelling most of the day at him... Like your chairs back up to each other?! I would have to quit. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 5, 2017 1:21:33 GMT
One guy I work with is always spitting into his waste basket... sooo disgusting... thankfully I don't share an office with him.. My boss who I do share an office with is pretty good about bodily functions.. as the back of his chair is right next to the back of mine!! lol.. but he can't hear a damn thing, so I am yelling most of the day at him... Nooooooooooo this simply cannot be true! Please tell me you made it up! (I know you didn't make it up, I am just horrified that someone does this!) OMG I could not be anywhere near someone who does this. |
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Post by gulfcoastgirl on Mar 5, 2017 1:37:00 GMT
Oh, my God, I am seriously suffering on your behalf.
My Dh has no bodily functions. He doesn't pee, fart or poo or spit - unless he does it in secret or something. BUT - the men in our two favourite couples are snorters and spitters and proudly gas propelled. And why does every us male dip? When we have friends from the south visit my hair-trigger gag reflex is on high alert.
Go ahead and tell him it's annoying, as kindly as you can. There's always the guise of being helpful (try this sinus/allergy med). If he realizes people are aware of it, maybe he'll try to be more discreet.
Good luck!
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 5, 2017 2:04:37 GMT
One guy I work with is always spitting into his waste basket... sooo disgusting... thankfully I don't share an office with him.. My boss who I do share an office with is pretty good about bodily functions.. as the back of his chair is right next to the back of mine!! lol.. but he can't hear a damn thing, so I am yelling most of the day at him... Nooooooooooo this simply cannot be true! Please tell me you made it up! (I know you didn't make it up, I am just horrified that someone does this!) OMG I could not be anywhere near someone who does this. Oh yeah.. and it SHOCKED the hell out of me.. You would have NEVER guessed it in a million years... I have worked with him for lots of years and never knew this until four of us started a new business (I didn't start the business, but I was hired on to help out)... he always had his own office or cube and I never noticed he did this. The first time I thought, well he was sick and maybe he just didn't have a choice... nope.. it's a normal thing. (Barf!) |
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