   I'm Gonna Stab Someone
  Have you guys ever been at work with a sick person and wanted to stick a sharp object through their eye whenever they cough or won't get the f&ck up to blow their nose and sniffle every 3 mins.  Not a normal sniffle, but one of those wet gurgly ones!  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHWe aren't allowed to use radios here, so I'm screwed.  And my job is very patience-consuming.  So I'm boned when stuff like this happens.  I literally am just ranting cause I want to punch a hole in my monitor or at least throw this sick guy off the roof.   
  I know what you mean.I was doing a lab with someone last year and he had a cold or something but instead of blowing his nose he'd sniffle every other second. I was trying to concentrate (this was a computer architecture lab) but all I could concentrate on what his freakin' sniffling.I snapped and so I went to the washroom, got some toilet paper, brought it back to our work station and put it in a convenient-very-grabable-place relative to him. I suggest you do the same. Stabbing wouldn't really help ;-)   ;  Try being in a room full of people that are sick in the middle of a test. It's one of those things that truly tests your self control and challanges your sanity.   ;  sharing sucks. sick people should stay home.   ;Quote:Original post by capn_midnightsharing sucks. sick people should stay home.As one of these sick people who is enduring the symptoms described above (though properly armed with Vicks Inhalers and tissues), may I say that IMO a cough and a runny nose is not worth the loss of a days wage.   ;  No, but being considerate of your fellow workers is definately soemthing to be aware of.  Go blow your nose as soon as you start to sniffle more than once every 30 seconds.  Cause if you don't everyone around you will want to see you hurt by the end of the day.Everyone has been sick, some people just don't realize how annoying it is to others when they are sick themselves.Also, on the subject of venting and ranting, do you guys with actual office jobs use headphones?  I'm a simulation programmer and I usually sit at my desk for 8hrs a day listening to ppl chitchat and it honestly drives me insane.  We aren't allowed to use headphones or radios.  They guys in the systems dept can, but I'm not allowed to for some reason....   ;  I had to sit beside a guy with a cold in class today, and the bastard refused to blow his damn nose too. On top of that, he forgot all of his stuff, so he was constantly asking for one of my pens, to share my book, etc. I was considering letting him keep it all, I think I could SEE the germs on the items he gave back.He also owes me 20 dollars, since like 2 months ago.Yes, I'm bitter.   ;  Am I the only one who isn't bothered by sniffling?   ;Quote:Original post by fooman_69Have you guys ever been at work with a sick person and wanted to stick a sharp object through their eye whenever they cough or won't get the f&ck up to blow their nose and sniffle every 3 mins.  Not a normal sniffle, but one of those wet gurgly ones!  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHWe aren't allowed to use radios here, so I'm screwed.  And my job is very patience-consuming.  So I'm boned when stuff like this happens.  I literally am just ranting cause I want to punch a hole in my monitor or at least throw this sick guy off the roof.So youd rather stab this guy in the eye, or punch a hole in your monitor or throw the person off the roof, rather than just ask him to blow his nose?   ;Quote:Original post by Oberon_CommandAm I the only one who isn't bothered by sniffling?Nope.  I generally have the sniffles all throughout winter, but I'm almost never sick enough to actually miss work.  Thus, my coworkers must endure..   