Perfect for the casual office worker who delights in watching insects slowly meet their makers as they are painfully digested by an engaging variety of meat-sucking flora.

I would get one, but then I'd be tempted to start carving bits off of some of my dumber cow-orkers while singing selections from Little Shop of Horrors.

Hm, a little Carnivorous Plant Desk Set, a little Miracle-Gro...I'm seeing the possibilities of improving the workplace environment.

Do carnivorous plants smell bad?

Do carnivorous plants smell bad?

Not as bad as rotting corpses under your desk, I'm sure.

So there's that.

I think there's a flower that smells like rotting meat to attract flies (so it can eat them), but I don't think that's true of all carnivorous plants. I don't remember my Venus Flytrap having any smell at all.

I'm going to have to get one heck of a carnivorous plant if it's going to be able to dispose of a person's worth of meat all at once and therefore liberate me from the bother of rotting corpses under my desk. And my office is not big enough to accommodate Audrey II.

Do carnivorous plants smell bad?

The other half of the GothFashion Hivemind had a collection of carnivorous plants, and none of them were ooky-smelling.

I started to glance through one of her big books about carnivorous plants, and she snatched it out of my hands, saying "No. You should not look at the pictures in this book, not with your issues about spiders." I decided to trust her on that count.

None of mine have mentioned raises, large or otherwise.

And yet, oddly, I have heard much about heavier workloads.

Jilli, you should (NOT) have seen the spider I shooed out of the apartment the other day. I know not from where I mustered the presence of mind to catch it and toss it out the window.

And yet, oddly, I have heard much about heavier workloads.

Yep. There's been some interesting gossip flying around right now, thanks to it being yearly review time.