This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.

Snyder ,'Chosen'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 8:24:19 am PST #851 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I know that coffee beans are used as a scent clearer in perfume stores and other scent heavy places.

Also? I think you can speak to someone about scents triggering you. I have heard of offices having a policy of no perfumes and if there is an employee eating area or break room, popcorn boy could maybe be asked to keep his smelly snacks in there and to only have non-smelly snacks in the work area.


brenda m - Mar 02, 2006 8:25:10 am PST #852 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I can't ask the guy four cubes over to not eat popcorn,

A lot of offices don't allow popcorn because it can be such a distraction. (My office has popcorn going in the kitchen all day long, but I digress...) If it's a frequent problem, it might be worth finding out if you can quietly put a bug in someone's ear.


shrift - Mar 02, 2006 8:28:39 am PST #853 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Both of those could be worked on, given sufficient alcohol.

Five seconds looking at my work inbox will do the trick quite nicely. But I'd take the alcohol anyway.

Hell, I bet she'd carry the large caliber weapon if we just gave her one.

Yes, please.


msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 8:28:45 am PST #854 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

and seriously, this is why big offices should have anonymous ways to make suggestions to HR/employee relations.


Sue - Mar 02, 2006 8:28:52 am PST #855 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Is there an OHS person in your office, ita? You should talk to them.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 8:30:00 am PST #856 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm okay with asking people in my group to ease it up with the perfume and the popcorn (and I have, successfully). But the guy four cubes over (actually, it's more like 6) doesn't know me from Eve, and probably thinks he's far away enough from me that it shouldn't matter.

There are about 1100 people in this building. About 450 of them sit unseparated by walls on my floor, and maybe 550 in a similarly open area on the floor below, and I'm basically right on a balcony looking over them. Not counting visitors, at least 100 people who have no idea who I am could cause me a migraine by doing something perfectly normal at their desk.

I could go to HR and ask about accomodation, but I should probably start with the fan and the coffee. I totally vote coffee or that Aveda anti-humectant.


DXMachina - Mar 02, 2006 8:33:12 am PST #857 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It's snowing like crazy outside my window, but I'm listening to the Dodgers play the Braves in Florida, AIFG!


Frankenbuddha - Mar 02, 2006 8:41:47 am PST #858 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

It's snowing like crazy outside my window

Huh. It hasn't even started at all up here. I wonder if it's just slowly on the way or the path is diverting a bit out to sea or further in-land somewhere.


Sean K - Mar 02, 2006 9:03:53 am PST #859 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Okay hivemind,

I need some kind of cheap folding screen for our production offices, to section off somebody's desk and give them some privacy for working. I would have thought Ikea was perfect for that, but searching for "screen" on their website catalog is giving me NO LOVE.

Anybody have any suggestions?


Jessica - Mar 02, 2006 9:07:53 am PST #860 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Sean, try "room dividers." (Assuming you're looking for something like these.)