My boss just pulled me in her office to talk about my toots.
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How about: you could use some manners and excuse yourself if you need to fart? Toilet or bathroom is appropriate.
Normal bodily function, sure.
No need to abandon all etiquette just because you work with nurses.
A sick patient needing assistance is hardly the same as a coworker stinking out a shared workspace.21 -
DeviatedNorm wrote: »CheveuxNoirs wrote: »I agree. This story is heckin funny but I'd be ticked off if I worked with someone who was ripping butt all day and stinking up the place and then told me not to spray something.
I agree it's funny, that's why I posted. But that's a lot of assumptions from details not given in my story -- I had worked with the coworker for 20 minutes at that point (ever, it was her first day). She'd already sprayed the room once. I hadn't tooted between her spraying the room the first and second time, I wasn't even in the office for most of that 20 minutes (I had to leave as the smell was bothering me, and hence why I didn't put it together that she was spraying for my toots).
Well, you certainly made a memorable and pungent first impression that your co-worker did not want to experience on her second day at work.2 -
Beano2
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DeviatedNorm wrote: »...I should sneak off into one of the provider's offices if I have another toot attack.
Did he recommend a particular provider's office for fumigation treatment? Is this a personal vendetta?
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Hehe. I'll one up you with the "you're going to the restroom too often" conversation...
(Was dealing with a chronic UTI. Bathroom was just opposite the CFO's office...)4 -
crackpotbaby wrote: »How about: you could use some manners and excuse yourself if you need to fart? Toilet or bathroom is appropriate.
Normal bodily function, sure.
No need to abandon all etiquette just because you work with nurses.
A sick patient needing assistance is hardly the same as a coworker stinking out a shared workspace.
apparently not!0 -
ladyreva78 wrote: »Hehe. I'll one up you with the "you're going to the restroom too often" conversation...
(Was dealing with a chronic UTI. Bathroom was just opposite the CFO's office...)
Seriously? That's terrible.2 -
i dont really have that problem, but it makes me glad that im usually the only one in my office lolololol0
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Just another reason I love working from home full time! :laugh:3
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So colleagues have complained about you? If so then you should either find a job where you don't annoy people or eat differently. Seriously, if you are farting then you are eating too much protein. Your body cannot digest as much as you put in. Thus eat less of it.6
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manwithmustache wrote: »Boss: "Umm.. how do I broach the subject, are you familiar with the children's song: beans beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat the more yyou... you know..."
I am unfamiliar with this version - in the UK beans, beans are good for the heart!2 -
I couldn't imagine telling on a coworker for one fart in a 20 minute time frame but yet I'm the type of person who communicates with others about my feelings. I would have pulled the farting offender to the side and explained that I was bothered by the smells. This way the farting offender would know that others are smelling it and to use the restroom for continued farting endeavors.
I purchased a protein powder from Wegmans that was on sale. It was plant based and vanilla flavored, I thought it was worth a try. I drank it and went to work. Within an hour,I was tooting like a choo choo train . It was so bad that I needed to go for a walk to get it all out. I never drank that one again before work.
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manwithmustache wrote: »Boss: "Umm.. how do I broach the subject, are you familiar with the children's song: beans beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat the more yyou... you know..."
I am unfamiliar with this version - in the UK beans, beans are good for the heart!
This is also the version I'm familiar with . I'm in California but am from Toronto.0 -
So colleagues have complained about you? If so then you should either find a job where you don't annoy people or eat differently. Seriously, if you are farting then you are eating too much protein. Your body cannot digest as much as you put in. Thus eat less of it.
I don't have a protein-heavy diet but I still have this problem. OP said she enjoys cruciferous veg, they're known offenders for gas. But damnit, broccoli is delicious!0 -
The spraying of nasty chemicals into the shared airspace is just as offensive and worse for one's health than the misplaced toot.18
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DeviatedNorm wrote: »100_PROOF_ wrote: »Oh goodness! How did he even approach you with this topic? That must've been so uncomfortable.
"Hey deviatednorm, can you come into my office real quick? So...how's everything working with work? Okay okay...good to hear...so...last night, can you tell me a little about what went on?"
"Uh...idk what you're referring to, last night was slow and uneventful."
"There was a nurse who sprayed something tho? So... uh... hrm...do you have a problem with gas maybe?"
turned out I was the bad guy for asking the nurse not to spray the room lol
You can borrow my 8 1/2 year old son if you want them to know yours aren't bad. 2 -
Since you work in the medical field, your medical supply company should carry a biological odor eliminator (We use the brand M9 but there are others out there). See if you can invest in some for the office. That stuff is like MAGIC. We use it in patient rooms with particularly nasty smells. My hospital only uses the unscented one, and when you spray it in the air it's like all the stink just dissipates without leaving behind that fake chemically floral scent. Plus nobody has to know that you're spraying it in the first place! Might be helpful for those who have overly-sensitive noses and don't want to be drowned out by air freshener!11
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Alatariel75 wrote: »Try charcoal tablets. My farty brother swears by them.
This!! Activated charcoal works.0 -
blueheartrisen wrote: »The spraying of nasty chemicals into the shared airspace is just as offensive and worse for one's health than the misplaced toot.
Agreed. Fart smell may be briefly unpleasant, but doesn't give me headaches like nasty artificial fragrance.5 -
kshama2001 wrote: »blueheartrisen wrote: »The spraying of nasty chemicals into the shared airspace is just as offensive and worse for one's health than the misplaced toot.
Agreed. Fart smell may be briefly unpleasant, but doesn't give me headaches like nasty artificial fragrance.
indeed. Lavender febreeze/Lysol makes me gag... Farts/BO... even third world/developing country water deprived BO doesn't gag me as badly.3 -
DeviatedNorm wrote: »mom23mangos wrote: »Since you are all nurses, what did she say? I mean, she above all should know it's a normal biological function. Was she worried about your health? Or did she just tell you to take it outside?
This all stemmed from me asking a coworker to wait 20 minutes until I left to spray down the main office with lavender for the second time that night. I didn't realize she was doing so to cover my toots, I wasn't having a super bad fart night even!
My boss asked me to let folks spray their heart out and that I should sneak off into one of the provider's offices if I have another toot attack.
Is it just lavender essential oil or some vile concoction that is faintly reminiscent of lavender?1 -
Try cutting back on the fiber. That's the likely culprit.
Pre-Logging your meals can help you to determine if what you're going to eat for the day will be too much. 1 -
Spliner1969 wrote: »Try cutting back on the fiber. That's the likely culprit.
I don't agree with this necessarily, fart foods are very individual. As a professional bottom trumpeter, I fart worst when I've been eating a lot of meat. Beans/pulses, despite their fearsome reputation, are the food that calms my innards best.
Gut flora is complicated, and a lot has to do with what you are accustomed to. I don't eat a lot of meat as a rule, so when Christmas comes along and I start eating my own weight in roasts, my little bugs are like "What is THIS?" and the music commences.9 -
Seriously though? Don't fart in a shared office space if you can help it. Also, how can you not know that you're blowing especially noxious gas that day? It's not like we're immune from the stink of our own farts!6
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I guess I see both sides. Gas is a normal bodily function but it can also be tough to be stuck in the same space with extra smelly ongoing farts and being told not to spray air freshener.
Find an air freshesner that doesn't bother you and offer that to your co-workers. Try to leave the shared space if you feel like you are going to pass gas.
Change your diet on work days if there is a particular food that makes you extra gassy or your farts extra smelly. I guess look at your food diary and see what is causing the most issue.Try not eating the troublesome foods for you 6-8 hours prior to work.
Take something like gas-x or beano.
https://nutritionfacts.org/2011/12/05/beans-and-gas-clearing-the-air/
I enjoyed that article too much.0 -
This is hilarious. Coworker needs to chill but you also need to take a little walk to an unpopulated corner to toot if it's a bad day as you acknowledged . I'm the kind of coworker who would have said very loud "someone is stinking the place up and needs to knock it off pls." 7
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DeviatedNorm wrote: »MistressSara wrote: »Seriously?
Yep!
Most embarrassing trip to the boss's office yet.Alatariel75 wrote: »Haahaa oh dear. I was just complaining to a coworker that my new shoes keep making farty noises when I work, but that's next level.
Try charcoal tablets. My farty brother swears by them.
I'll definitely have to give those a try. My coworkers are nurses and such, I guess they can wipe a patient's *kitten* but my toots are just too too much.
...they are pretty bad.
Hmm. Seems like you need to be a little more stealthy about it. Next time, wait until a coworker temporarily vacates their area, then toot there. That way, they will think the other person did it!
If I rip on the elevator by myself, and it stops and someone gets on, I'm just like "yo I need some air" and we laugh and laugh and laugh.3 -
Omg I’m dying. That is hilarious. Go fart somewhere more private or take some beano (or apparently charcoal? Maybe I will try that.) but I also agree those air freshener sprays are awful! My office is across the hallway from the bathroom! It’s terrible. The women are too scared to leave their stench behind so they spray the ever living *kitten* out of the pina colada flavored spray and then it wafts right into my office. Just awful.5
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I grew up with both versions being sung back to back lol.manwithmustache wrote: »Boss: "Umm.. how do I broach the subject, are you familiar with the children's song: beans beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat the more yyou... you know..."
I am unfamiliar with this version - in the UK beans, beans are good for the heart!
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