pop_haines wrote:Well, if they are Faulkners (a loud fart with no stank...all sound and
fury, signifying nothing), then it's probably something you can live
with eventually.
But if he is dealing radioactive nose-burning blue darters, you may
have to take a shovel to the back of his head.
Any jury in the world would understand.
No, it is the former. Just a quick one, like maybe he's making a half hearted attempt at repressing it, but with sound and fairly benign.
By the way, if anyone wants to learn more I found this site to be worth a read:
jim wrote:My work environment can best be described as "nerdy". The guy next to me is about 6'4", a big mop of curly hair, glasses from 1975, and a beard you usually only see on someone Amish. He wears t-shirts with nerdy sayings like "I can replace you with a six line shell script", often autographed by Larry Wall or some such computer "rock star" at a computer conference and shorts that were of proper length back in maybe 1980. He walks on his toes, kind of hopping up and down and swaying his head back and forth. You see four year olds walk like this, but it's odd seeing it on a grown man walk like this.
Nice, nice guy. Nicest you ever would want to meet and freaking brilliant.
But this farting is getting out of hand. He just walked by and let one rip, and seeing that big mop of a head bopping back and forth I wanted to strangle him. He sits next to me, and I don't think I have heard him ever do that sitting down. But apparently walking is a problem, he's long been known for this and now that I am sitting next to him I get to hear it twice a day at least.
The slurping of his tea in the morning I can handle, but this is another story.
This just has to be commonplace in the tech/geek/engineering world...I swear sometimes the floor shakes in my office. The worst is when they are talking to you and just start cracking them off.
Even worse is the cubedusting, kinda like cropdusting, walking down the middle of the cube farm and covering the entire area with a lovely odor.
Damn, someone just lit one off....ugh...it's going to be a long day.
jim wrote:My work environment can best be described as "nerdy". The guy next to me is about 6'4", a big mop of curly hair, glasses from 1975, and a beard you usually only see on someone Amish. He wears t-shirts with nerdy sayings like "I can replace you with a six line shell script", often autographed by Larry Wall or some such computer "rock star" at a computer conference and shorts that were of proper length back in maybe 1980. He walks on his toes, kind of hopping up and down and swaying his head back and forth. You see four year olds walk like this, but it's odd seeing it on a grown man walk like this.
Nice, nice guy. Nicest you ever would want to meet and freaking brilliant.
But this farting is getting out of hand. He just walked by and let one rip, and seeing that big mop of a head bopping back and forth I wanted to strangle him. He sits next to me, and I don't think I have heard him ever do that sitting down. But apparently walking is a problem, he's long been known for this and now that I am sitting next to him I get to hear it twice a day at least.
The slurping of his tea in the morning I can handle, but this is another story.
This just has to be commonplace in the tech/geek/engineering world...I swear sometimes the floor shakes in my office. The worst is when they are talking to you and just start cracking them off.
Even worse is the cubedusting, kinda like cropdusting, walking down the middle of the cube farm and covering the entire area with a lovely odor.
Damn, someone just lit one off....ugh...it's going to be a long day.
jim wrote:My work environment can best be described as "nerdy". The guy next to me is about 6'4", a big mop of curly hair, glasses from 1975, and a beard you usually only see on someone Amish. He wears t-shirts with nerdy sayings like "I can replace you with a six line shell script", often autographed by Larry Wall or some such computer "rock star" at a computer conference and shorts that were of proper length back in maybe 1980. He walks on his toes, kind of hopping up and down and swaying his head back and forth. You see four year olds walk like this, but it's odd seeing it on a grown man walk like this.
Nice, nice guy. Nicest you ever would want to meet and freaking brilliant.
But this farting is getting out of hand. He just walked by and let one rip, and seeing that big mop of a head bopping back and forth I wanted to strangle him. He sits next to me, and I don't think I have heard him ever do that sitting down. But apparently walking is a problem, he's long been known for this and now that I am sitting next to him I get to hear it twice a day at least.
The slurping of his tea in the morning I can handle, but this is another story.
This just has to be commonplace in the tech/geek/engineering world...I swear sometimes the floor shakes in my office. The worst is when they are talking to you and just start cracking them off.
Even worse is the cubedusting, kinda like cropdusting, walking down the middle of the cube farm and covering the entire area with a lovely odor.
Damn, someone just lit one off....ugh...it's going to be a long day.
AWESOME!
A few of the guys I work with have developed this into a game, coming by to see you, and then leaving a little present as they go. I have some very mature co-workers.
jim wrote:My work environment can best be described as "nerdy". The guy next to me is about 6'4", a big mop of curly hair, glasses from 1975, and a beard you usually only see on someone Amish. He wears t-shirts with nerdy sayings like "I can replace you with a six line shell script", often autographed by Larry Wall or some such computer "rock star" at a computer conference and shorts that were of proper length back in maybe 1980. He walks on his toes, kind of hopping up and down and swaying his head back and forth. You see four year olds walk like this, but it's odd seeing it on a grown man walk like this.
Nice, nice guy. Nicest you ever would want to meet and freaking brilliant.
But this farting is getting out of hand. He just walked by and let one rip, and seeing that big mop of a head bopping back and forth I wanted to strangle him. He sits next to me, and I don't think I have heard him ever do that sitting down. But apparently walking is a problem, he's long been known for this and now that I am sitting next to him I get to hear it twice a day at least.
The slurping of his tea in the morning I can handle, but this is another story.
This just has to be commonplace in the tech/geek/engineering world...I swear sometimes the floor shakes in my office. The worst is when they are talking to you and just start cracking them off.
Even worse is the cubedusting, kinda like cropdusting, walking down the middle of the cube farm and covering the entire area with a lovely odor.
Damn, someone just lit one off....ugh...it's going to be a long day.
AWESOME!
A few of the guys I work with have developed this into a game, coming by to see you, and then leaving a little present as they go. I have some very mature co-workers.
Sounds like I would fit right in with that little group of guys.
TimeForGuinness wrote:This just has to be commonplace in the tech/geek/engineering world.
Fortunately, this isn't a problem where I work now, but what's the deal with this? Is it just that people figure that they're kind of social outcasts anyway, so why bother even trying?
TimeForGuinness wrote:This just has to be commonplace in the tech/geek/engineering world.
Fortunately, this isn't a problem where I work now, but what's the deal with this? Is it just that people figure that they're kind of social outcasts anyway, so why bother even trying?
I'm not sure if it's that they are social outcasts and have stopped trying, or are social outcasts because they don't know how to try.
