What is UP with my co-worker? Not only does she have the GODDAMN front door open (we work in a storefront, and my office is the closest it the door) while it is 36 degrees (that’s Fahrenheit, although a case could be made for keeping it close if I were talking Celsius too) but even the delightfuly BRISK draft is doing nothing to combat the poison cloud of cloyingly sweet perfume she is wearing today. I swear she must fill her bathtub with it and splash around in it. There is NO WAY any human with a NOSE could get that much perfume on otherwise.
The thing that is the funniest about this person? She is totally the “smell police”. God forbid you eat anything but white bread for lunch. She sprays half a fucking can of air freshener everytime she uses the bathroom. She brought in a candle on Friday, because “I just can’t stand the smell in here”. I guess all that Haterade she’s sipping on is amplifying her sense of smell.
Seriously guys, have pity on me. Send a gas mask.
8 responses so far ↓
Amanda // October 30, 2007 at 9:51 am |
You should immediately close the door every time she opens it. That would be sweet if you walked around your office with a surgical mask on……I’d pay to see that.
I can’t stand being around people like that. You officially have my pity for the next eight hours.
hello insomnia // October 30, 2007 at 11:37 am |
Oh I hate those who shower in perfume and you can taste it in the air. Ugh. That being said, it’s really hard to undo perfume once it’s been spritzed, but I can’t forgive repeat offenders.
Nicole // October 30, 2007 at 8:08 pm |
Don’t you love working in an office environment? It’s miserable I know! I have the back-stabbing, paranoid, jerk of a co-worker to deal with…maybe if I chase him around with air freshener he will get lost!
chou-chou // October 31, 2007 at 1:56 am |
OMG, I am feeling so sorry for you!!
Last week I interviewed a woman who was one of those bathe-in-the-scent kind of people. I don’t care WHAT her resume looked like, I gave her the thumbs down right away. Can’t imagine being that oblivious…
Katie // October 31, 2007 at 11:54 am |
Ugh! I work in HR and a lady we interviewed was wearing way too much perfume. We ended up hiring her, but my boss had a talk with her about the perfume before she started. Thank god, because it would have given me a headache!
Procrastamom // October 31, 2007 at 1:07 pm |
Ugh, her and my co-worker would get along famously! Why is there always one in every office? Why?!!!
Alleen // October 31, 2007 at 2:53 pm |
ack. Wear a gas mask and see what she says.
magpie // November 2, 2007 at 12:47 pm |
Oh, I hate that perfume thing. I used to have a loathsome co-worker who used way too much smelly cologne, and every time he used my phone, my phone smelled for hours.