Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Unfortunate smells

DISCLAIMER: It's a weird week. You'll need to lower your expectations.
I've had a fairly interesting variety of jobs. If you've ever worked a job You'll know that in every workplace there are certain smells. Some are job related, obviously. Others, however are more... people related.

Here I have compiled together a list of jobs I have had along with the smells that I can remember from those jobs.

Apprentice in a PC repair shop (My first real job):
Cigarette smoke

Web designer / IT guy in my family's real estate company:
Apple-bees and coffee

Production manager at an imaging company:
Old Paper

Web Designer at an aftermarket auto performance shop:
Grease, Sweat, Old drywall, Sweaty Dude Farts (Not mine, the other employees hated that I had a desk job and would intentionally carpet bomb my office)... 

Car Audio installer:
Wood shavings, soap, carpet glue

Door to door pizza coupon sales guy:
Oak trees, antifreeze, mace

Phone based tech support at AOL:
The body odor of 1000 nerds, and one particularly hygiene challenged female cubical neighbor

Communications Tech (911/dispatch/radio) at a large police department:
Cigarette smoke, burnt coffee, Lysol, and the body(?) odor of one particularly hygiene challenged female co-worker

Current job, but another location with other employees:
Coffee (The good kind), and a sales guy who used these things in his office like they were a scented candle... You'll notice the word "adjustable" in that picture, but he just took the lid right off and sat it next to his computer monitor. It was so powerful that it became his smell.

I could literally smell him coming down the hall before he ever arrived at my somehow always empty office. "What's that? Oh, sorry, I must have just missed you" was a typical script when he came calling. 

I hope you were able to imagine each of those smells. This post was my way of eliciting a physical reaction from you. Hopefully you made some funny faces while reading the list, otherwise your webcam pictures are going to be horrible...

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