"open plan offices and unpleasant personal habits" thread in "General Mayhem"
Yeah I know I must be the world's most picky person. Bite me. We work in a large open plan office - 150 people on ...

Yeah I know I must be the world's most picky person. Bite me.
We work in a large open plan office - 150 people on one floor. I have the misfortune to have to sit next to a very heavy smoker who tootles out for a cheroot about once every half hour. As a result he smells. Badly. Of stale cigarette smoke. And he has the most godawful smokers' cough. He coughs incessantly. Loud, fruity, phlegmmy, bubbling coughs. It is, at best, horribly distracting, and at worst, downright disgusting.
I suggested gently that he might want to have it checked out, and he brushed it aside as something had gone down the wrong way. I informed his manager of it who went to HR. HR said it was none of their business, and that the 3 of us who had complained about it would just have to live with it.

It really is gross, and it's getting me down.

I suppose this is just a rant, really. But if anyone has any sensible ideas on how this could be tackled I'd be very grateful. Suggestions for cuspidors are not helpful!

Pick your nose. Leave bogies on his desk.

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aka 6x6

Good god, you complained to HR about someone's cough and they smell of smoke. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Perhaps your minge or breath smells but people are too polite to mention it.

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MC024 - Mandlebars are in!


Boris for Prime Minister!

Not something you can really address yourself.... Its up to your manager to sort out bad habbits.

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Get over yourself Seriously though it is none of your business and you should forget about it.

Every half hour? - he's a timewaster, log all the time he's away from his desk and then dob him in. Let him attempt to cut down - if he does you win, if he doesn't you dob him in again.

Or put some shit in his coffee while he's out.

Shit in his drawer.

YKIMS

There really is very little you can do about it. I should imagine he hates sitting next to the posh bird who does nowt but complain about him and probably got told the same thing by HR

I don't like the aftershave that one of my mates wears to the office, makes me want to hurl - but it's his choice, gotta live with it.

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Bloody hell, no wonder there are so many petty negs on here.

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MC024 - Mandlebars are in!


Boris for Prime Minister!

Nah it might float, he'd notice.... Maybe some sort of lax?

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Ah...but what if he happens to notice all the time she spends on here not doing work and retaliates?

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An ex boss - a lady - a skinny lady - used to whinge about the office temperature all the time, always too cold. Every time she went out I'd turn the aircon down a degree.

The sheer horror of it.

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In the Bible, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. That's a pretty good summer for us in Wales. That's a hosepipe ban waiting to happen. I was eight before I realised you could take a kagoule off.(Rhod Gilbert)

Sit at your desk wearing full facial masks or scuba gear.

Have you ever worked in an office? It's a nightmare.