It smells like a ham sandwich at my desk today. I can't trace it to anything, and it's really starting to bother me.Unidentified smells are a nasty side effect of lunches eaten at desks and forgotten leftovers from birthday parties, client meetings and communal kitchen cast-a-ways.
I once had a summer temp job where my office had the sweet odor of rotten fruit for the better part of a week. Only when I reached for a folder in the back of a cabinet did I find the source: a banana peel left by either an overzealous filer or a soon-to-be-ex-employee plotting revenge. Since the folder was not labeled, I'm thinking it was the latter.
Assuming Faith is not the victim of a Dirty Work-inspired prank -- the primary tactic for revenge in the Norm MacDonald movie was to hide dead fish in a house -- there's really only one option for eliminating indeterminate odors.
After a thorough check of the file cabinets and adjacent trash cans, you must simply yield to the power of Febreze. A liberal coating of the three cubicle walls should do the trick -- at least until the next bit of errant hot dog or Chipotle burrito overwhelms your senses.
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I made popcorn last week. Try as I did, some of it still effing burned. I felt terrible! (And someone has actually started a fire with their burnt popcorn at our office, Meesha! They burnt a bag, and threw it immediately into the trash, which was full of plastic and paper towels. I guess they didn't realize just how hot those little kernels get when you burn 'em! It actually lit the trash on fire. Crazy.)
I never did figure out that ham sandwich smell. My desk has smelled normal since then, thank goodness. Very odd...
@Bull E. Vard: The only thing worse than microwave popcorn is BURNT microwave popcorn, which happens more often around my workplace than properly-cooked microwave popcorn.
There is a special place in hell reserved for anyone who cooks microwave popcorn in the office. The smell is overpowering and detrimental to everyone's well being including the eater of the popcorn. Microwave popcorn is awful.
that's exactly right, some foods should be eaten at home UNLESS everyone is eating it, but then no one would be complaining.I am pretty sure something died in our office fridge years ago and I just celebrated 10 years of never putting anything in it.while you are at it keep all the perfume at home as well.
Perhaps more annoying than the rotten leftovers in the office trash can are the snivelers who piss and whine about the smell of someone's lunch. You know who they are. They can't fathom using an onion to flavor something, heaven forbid garlic is included and call 911 of there is seafood involved. Raise that tuna salad sammich in solidarity office foodies and dare that windbag next door to open their trap.
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