Oatmeal...and...tuna???

mrsconn23

Dear Prudence,

Over a year ago, a co-worker began eating oatmeal at her desk every day. Before putting it in the microwave, she mixes in a can of tuna. If it sounds gross, it is. Her office abuts mine, and some days the odor is nauseating. It's been bothering me more and more, but I feel awkward saying anything because it has been going on for so long. To add to the problem, she has some mannerisms that I dislike intensely. This has nothing to do with the offensive odor, but it makes it more difficult to talk to her. How can I complain after it's been so long? Should I just use air freshener in my office in the morning?

—It Stinks in Here

Butter Cookie

I would be so supremely passive aggressive, spraying can after can of Febreze in my office every day while she ate lunch.

arbolita

Just reading that combination makes me want to vomit.  I can't imagine smelling it.

loveshine1

That sounds absolutely disgusting. I cannot imagine how bad that office must smell. I would absolutely say something.

Butter Cookie

I used to work with a lady who would go out in the morning and pick her own spinach, then bring it and a can of salmon into the office and wrap the salmon up in a leaf of spinach to eat it.

Did she bother to wash the spinach? No. She would hold meetings in her office while she ate, and be picking BUGS off the freaking spinach like it was NBD.

loveshine1

OMG.