This morning we came in and the whole floor stank like rotting fish!!! the stupid stupid people in security decided that it is just “unpleasant” and not worth evacuating, so they just sprayed deodorizer and mucked about doing nothing. Meanwhile, people have been complaining of burning sensation in the eyes and headaches. Does anyone know what this might be? Should we get the fk… out???
There is enormous potential for a tasteless joke here, but I shall refrain.
Burning eyes and headache? Take a sick day.
Had any disgruntled workers lately? Layoffs?
Look in the vents.
They supposedly did that already and found nothing, they also checked in each person’s drawers and behind the cabinets and nothing. I am guessing it comes from the air conditioner, but it does seem to have subsided by now. The problem with me is that I immediatly googled and found references to pesticide poisoning with the same symptoms. Being the hypochondriac that I am, I did become alarmed. Thankfully I have my own private office, so I shut the door and turned on the fan. I guess the “mystery smell” shall remain a mystery.
do you have a service which provides and cares for the plants?
believe it or not, I was in a shop when such a group decided to fertilize every plant in the building with - you got it- ground-up-fish.
I took the day off
That might have been it happyheathen, since they took out all the potted plants and the smell did go away in the afternoon Unfortunately, its a government office, so by the time I form a committe to discuss the necessity of finding out the origin of the “mystery smell” we will have probably been wiped out by loch ness monsters. Adding to the rant, stupid security people who were supposed to take care of the smell mucked about talking into their walkie talkies and summoning their superiors one by one. Then, I’m not kidding about this, they got the Union representatives up to the floor! I don’t even want to know what for. Anyway, mystery smell is gone now. I think the fertiliser in the plants is a good explanation.
thanks everyone.
Perhaps Peter Gibbons used your office to clean fish.
I told you setting up shop on a houseboat was a bad idea.
My office floor stinks of fish,
Our yaks are really large,
And they smell like rotting beef carcasses.
Manduck: That doesn’t even rhyme, is it some kind of an attempt to do a haiku poem?
TRY AGAIN.
oops, there’s supposed to be a 
on the last one.
To the tune of God Save the Queen, if you were wondering.