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So after the whole 'colleague microwaving kippers at work' debacle...it has got worse

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 14:47

Someone has a slow cooker on stewing lamb Confused

The stick of cooking lamb has permeated the entire floor. Nobody can go into the kitchen without releasing more stink into the offices and we are all going WTF at each other. It is completely vile. I'm sure if you eat meat it's a nice smell, but I do not, nor do a disproportionately high number of my colleagues (right-on public sector workers on SE) and I'm fucking pissed off, actually. At least kipper stink dispersed in 30 mins, I've been here MNing doing paperwork for two hours and it has been on the whole time. The window is open and I'm cold but I still feel sick.

You might think I'm being princessy but when i was pg the smell of cooking meat was instant vom and i really can't bear it.

I have sent an email round asking the culprit not to do it again. AIBU?

Actually, to avoid AIBU by stealth I should confess that I have pretended I don't know whose it is but I do, and she gets on my tits anyway.

Oh! Oh and it's her fucking dinner! For when she goes home!

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 18:30

Hahaha just ranted on FB about it, turns out she originally plugged it in in her actual office next to her desk and was asked to remove it to the kitchen! Weirder and weirder!

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amberleaf · 27/04/2011 18:31

Maybe shes doing it in retaliation to your mate and her kippers?

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 18:32

Hog Roast {vom}

Did you not undestand my original objection? Grin

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lilyliz · 27/04/2011 18:33

she could be a right tight git and be saving on the electric at home or maybe she has'nt paid her bill and it's been cut off.I suggest you take in your wet washing to dry in the garden,very eco friendly you know.Once worked with stupid man who hung bacon on the bars of the portable gas fire we used so he could have a sarnie at work.Grin

whatsallthehullaballoo · 27/04/2011 18:35

I would take in a side of beef to marinate in the sink!!

That'll learn em Wink

SkipToTheEnd · 27/04/2011 18:57

That is truly bizarre!

I once worked in an office with a blind man who had a guide dog - people actually complained about the smell of dog food in the kitchen when he fed it :( There was also an unwritten rule about egg sandwiches being banned. Id love someone to cook kippers in there and watch al hell break loose!

BoffinMum · 27/04/2011 19:04

Eric, you could impale the culprit on said hog roast as a revenge measure. [cgrin]

plusRoyalisteQuUneEmigree · 27/04/2011 21:08

Someone would have to be spared to turn the kitchen hog ve-ery slowly. And another person to keep the fire going!

What with passive-aggressive e-mails, Facebook and hog roasting, this person's inconsiderateness is having a massive productivity effect!

Vallhala · 27/04/2011 21:21

I'd walk out. I really would. The smell of meat is vile at the besy of times but stewed meat smells are stomach-churning. (IMHO obviously, I'm sure that for many of you they'e wonderful).

I would point-blanlk refuse to work in that environment. The bosses could consider it a H&S issue (ie it makes me sick) or the deeply moral, almost spiritual issue that it is for me, I wouldn't care. I wouldn't know what they thought because I wouldn't be there.

Envy < vom emoticon.

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 22:15

I was close Val. I left 30 minutes early for my appointment and went to tesco with a clear conscience because I was completely sick of it. I find the smell of it as disgusting as the thought of it, and the one makes the other worse. I live with a carnivore who has to open the windows and close the doors when he's cooking and who was banned from cooking it in the house while I was pregnant. I don't expect to deal with it at work. Hahaha I've just remembered one of the managers is vegetarian, and one of them is extremely fastidious about manners and hygiene. I doubt she will do it again but if she does she will get short shrift from them.

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GotArt · 27/04/2011 22:23

Eric I eat meat and love lamb, but this girl is OTT!!! Good grief, who brings a slow cooker to cook lunch in! Outrageous! (I'm laughing too, mind you... its one those things that is certainly weird.... perhaps she has a roommate that has banned the lamb from the flat.)

At university, I had a butane burner for my stove top espresso but that was because the coffee shop was a 15 minute walk across campus from the art studios. An art student simply cannot go without coffee! [cgrin]

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 22:27

She's a grown up lady in her 40s! She has no flatmates and I'm pretty sure her electric remains connected!

I feel cheeky if I plug my personal mobile in to charge at work, or print out my online boarding card using company paper Confused but this is summat else!

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annh · 27/04/2011 22:29

Well, watch out that the washing line strung up with damp knickers doesn't hit you in the face when you walk through reception tomorrow!

TethersEnd · 27/04/2011 22:31

I'd say it was time to break out the camembert...

plusRoyalisteQuUneEmigree · 27/04/2011 22:33

"lady"?!

"grown up"?!

"no flatmates"

plusRoyalisteQuUneEmigree · 27/04/2011 22:34

P.S. Tethersend, I like the Camembert idea. And lentils. And Mexican refried beans!

bonkers20 · 27/04/2011 22:35

Where I work all electrical items have to be PAT tested (whatever that stands for). I'd report her to health and safety and have her and her lamb escorted from the premises!
Luckily we get a warning when H&S are doing a check so we can hide the fan heated (bloody air con!) and the sandwich toaster! Mwaaaaaa.

Why not bring your freezer into work tomorrow and defrost it in the office?

LadyMarySnowyPembroke · 27/04/2011 22:37

"hog roast", "her and her lamb"
I am in tears here. Classic.

TethersEnd · 27/04/2011 22:40

Make this

It ticks all the boxes.

plusRoyalisteQuUneEmigree · 27/04/2011 22:49

You are a magician. Fancy coming up with something so specifically to order! Yum yum.

HazeltheMcWitch · 27/04/2011 22:52

Please please please can you sell your story to the Daily Mail - perhaps the angle can be 'overpaid public SERVANTS in non-jobs, erm slow-cookering lamb' ? That is as close to chanelling Littlejohn as I will get.

disclaimer - I don't ACTUALLY suspect that you're overpaid, in a non-job...

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 22:52

{vom} at camambert and haddock tart! Unfortunately I'm a proper vegematarian and couldn't do that either. I did briefly discuss with a colleague what vegetarian food we could bring in that stinks as bad. I suggested fried onions, she thought spinach and broccoli. But no vegetable can compare to stewing flesh Angry

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 22:55

Hahahahahaha Hazel no deffo not overpaid and my job is very much necessary, however I do think it's a cheeky use of resources! But I also found out how much our mobile phone contracts cost could't tell ya or I'd get sacked and a day's use of a slow cooker is a drop in the ocean Wink

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HazeltheMcWitch · 27/04/2011 22:57

Details, Schmetails Eric, the Mail won't bother with such trifles...!

Ooh, for stinky veggie food, any chance you could procure DURIAN ? Banned in many a place in Far East, smells like something crawled away and died, some time ago.

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EricNorthmansMistress · 27/04/2011 23:03

Oh is that the fruit that smells like dead flesh? Perhaps defeating the point somewhat :)

Maybe I'll just hide prawns under her desk Grin

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