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I think my coworker graduated from Bovine University
Kyougu
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Because he eats like a damn cow. I can hear every bite he takes and it's driving me crazy.
Is there a HR Friendly way to bring this up? Obviously I wouldn't bring this up in front of everyone, but is there a good way to tell someone to chew more quietly?
Is there a HR Friendly way to bring this up? Obviously I wouldn't bring this up in front of everyone, but is there a good way to tell someone to chew more quietly?
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that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
And even then. Suck it up. It'll only make you look bad to take this to HR, imnsho.
That said, my condolences on your exposure to awful office co-worker syndrome.
If I am chewing or breathing loudly it's embarrassing and I would rather someone tell me than to have people hate me for it.
Some people just don't hear it.
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I meant that I wanted a way to bring up the issue without sounding like a dick.
But you're still well within the not being a dick zone by asking cudchewer mcgee to keep it down while you're trying to function.
It's terrible advice really but I second this because it's quite satisfying. I share an office with a prodigious belcher (combined with grunts of exertion from said belches) and it makes me feel a hell of a lot better to just sit there farting all day.
He also eats with his mouth open and I can occasionally hear it over music but I've taken to just eating my lunch elsewhere when he starts eating.
Do that every time.
I have one coworker in a cube across the way that does the horse-chewing thing. I swear if she were eating pudding I'd be able to hear it from a distance. It's mind-boggling. Oddly enough, an opportunity to address it actually presented itself one day when she told a coworker that her own boyfriend had complained about it. Unfortunately it didn't help the problem -- her reasoning is that she has a "small mouth" and can't help it. Oh well.
The coworker on the other side of my cube wall, on the other hand, makes these wet slurping sounds that confounded me for years. It sounds like a kid messily eating a popsicle but that wasn't it. I figured it out eventually when I ended up on an elevator with the guy and he made the same sound without anything in his mouth at all. I'm pretty sure he sucks his dentures. I doubt he knows people all around can hear it.
tldr: the only effective solution I've found is headphones and Pandora, which is, fortunately, totally bearable. Pleasant even.
It also never occurred to me that there may be a medical condition at the root. That may help me be less pissed off at the people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQgvbl3PtLI
There's some terrible truth in there that it's one of those things you can be blissfully unaware of until for some reason you key into it one day and then it's impossible not to hear.
That's a funny video yet just listening to it makes me want to scream. I have the same problem with those Kit-Kat commercials that cobble a jingle together out of crunching sounds.
I acknowledge that it's 100% my problem.
The best solution they have so far with it is.... leave the area.
I travel a lot to different locations, but there's one at EVERY OFFICE. I swear. I can walk in and sit in the lobby of each place and within 1 minute know if a particular person is on vacation or not.
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Buy some headphones or ask to move your desk or something.
Life is not this complicated.
Actually bringing this up to HR is as likely to make you look like a completely insufferable prick as it is to actually solve your problem.
Choose wisely.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
*smack smack smack* *sluuuuuurrrp* *smack smack* *spit*
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How small are your cubes? I don't think I can produce enough gas to have it over flow to other people's work space even if I tried.
Ha. He always sounds like he's just come up to the surface for air.