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[โ€“] morgan_423@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

I'm getting major "I'm asking for a friend" vibes off of this post.

[โ€“] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 1 year ago

I don't know, u/FART...

[โ€“] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

Um, I wouldn't. I would quit and move to another country.

[โ€“] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

"Do you smell that? I can't figure out where it's coming from!"

[โ€“] balance_sheet@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really, really don't want to know where this question is coming from...

oddly specific...

[โ€“] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

You wouldn't have a chance, HR would have been notified instantly, because that's creepy A.F.

[โ€“] booty@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

brother im gonna be real with you i think id never show up at that workplace again

[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

It depends. Did you, sorry, your friend, get caught sniffing a single seat or is there CCTV footage of them sniffing a lot of seats (presumably all the women in the office). The former is easier to get away with than, say, being caught licking a bicycle seat, just say your pen rolled under the desk and you were on your hands and knees by the chair fishing for it. If it's the latter then walk out immediately, then drive a truck laden with gas canisters into the front of the building and throw a Molotov cocktail at it in the hole that the explosion and fire would destroy any evidence and anyone who saw it.

[โ€“] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

by getting it surgically altered. I could never show the old face ever again.

also, moving and changing my name.

yikes

[โ€“] Zoift@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

If you couldn't bullshit out of that in in moment, you're not getting away with it now. Go work in a theater.

[โ€“] Mandy@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

okay dude, be honest where you the weirdo that got caught

[โ€“] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

"Does this smell like burnt toast to you? Oh, it doesn't? Maybe I should go to the doctor..."

[โ€“] MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Save face? You wouldn't need to... You get fired for doing shit like that.

[โ€“] Cybermass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I would probably just kill myself out of embarrassment tbh, to a seppuku thing because I have dishonored myself

[โ€“] saigot@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Someone round the office has been ripping extremely distinctive aweful farts and I need to discover who in order to stop them

[โ€“] Today@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to figure out which chair is mine - it has a faint coffee stain.

[โ€“] cduke23@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

sniffing seats at work

horror

Gently explain to anybody who will listen that you accidentally spilled some of your cocaine.

[โ€“] bigmonkey@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Why do you ask?

[โ€“] saba@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

eye contact, then lick the chair

[โ€“] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"My boss told me I get to be supreme chair sniffer for the day, can I sniff your chair?"

[โ€“] firethunder7@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Just say the reason you were sniffing them.

[โ€“] CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like somebody didnโ€™t poop for a whole week

[โ€“] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

3 day no poop flashbacks

[โ€“] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

username checks out

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think I'd have to worry as much since my sense of smell is basically gone.

I'm sure the people I'm working with would know that, so I'd be forced to save face for having my face too close to their seats, in which I got no clue how to save face from that.