Does Fruit Smell?

[JWBear]

A real email from a manager to their staff:

To All Staff,



Some of you are bringing a fruit, Guava, at work to eat. Unfortunately the smell of this particular fruit is extremely strong and unpleasant to a lot of your co-workers. I have been asked to tell you to please no longer bring that particular fruit to work. I realize this is an unusual request but I have had complaints that it smells acidy, like gas, and it makes some people sick to smell the fruit.



If this complaint was coming from one person I would not be making this request; however, it is definitely affecting others. So I am asking that you please no longer bring this item to work to eat. I would also ask that you not approach your co-workers and ask, “Did you tell (manager's name) my fruit smells?”



And you are correct in thinking that I can not force anyone not to bring this item to work. I can only ask and that is what I am doing. I am hopeful that now that the source of the odor has been verified and you have been made aware it is an unpleasant smell to some that you will indeed no longer bring the fruit to work to eat.



Thank you for assistance in this matter.



Gotta love government work....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Geez. Someone's been bringing bag after bag of guava in over the last few weeks here, and I haven't smelled a thing.

And the LoT smells pretty fresh and clean, so clearly fruit doesn't smell, because lord knows we're full of fruits here.

[Kevy Baby]

Does Fruit Smell?Not if they take regular showers and use deodorant.

[BarTopDancer]

Wow. I wish that our managers would be ballsy enough to send out an email saying quit wearing so much perfume. It is giving your co-workers massive headaches.

[JWBear]

Wow. I wish that our managers would be ballsy enough to send out an email saying quit wearing so much perfume. It is giving your co-workers massive headaches.

Well, one word you'd never use to describe this manager is "timid".

[Snowflake]

That would inspire me to bring a Durian to the office! :evil:

If you don't know, here's what a Durian is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian)

[Morrigoon]

snowflake: you are an evil, evil woman. I like it! :evil:

I had a manager who would pretend things were coming from others to protect her own butt when she had a problem with something.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Geez. Someone's been bringing bag after bag of guava in over the last few weeks here, and I haven't smelled a thing.

And the LoT smells pretty fresh and clean, so clearly fruit doesn't smell, because lord knows we're full of fruits here.

Well, after a long night in the kitchen - I mean, have you ever smelled baking parmesan?

[JWBear]

I just noticed that I left out the word "your" in the thread title. It should read "Does Your Fruit Smell".

Can some kind Mod or Admin fix it for me, please?

[Alex]

Apparently your place of work does not employ a large contingent of Indians. Overripe guava would be much preferred.

Now, I like the smell of Indian food even when it is coming from a microwave but a lot of people don't.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Indian food is fine. The odor of microwaved Vietnamese food tends to be on the side of pungent I can do without (as much as I love to actually eat it myself).

[Alex]

I grew up in Portland's textile shops surrounded by Vietnamese food in various stages of cooking and reheating (first chicken feet, mmm). So that smell doesn't bother me even though I'm not a big fan of the food (Vietnamese comes the closest of any ethnic cuisine to being just a blanket "don't like").

I wonder what it would smell like if you microwaved a guava.

[Kevy Baby]

That would inspire me to bring a Durian to the office! :evil:

If you don't know, here's what a Durian is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian)Well, if you are going to go that route, why not bring in the Titan Arum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Arum)?

I grew up in Portland's textile shops...Who knew Alex grew up in a sweatshop?

[Snowflake]

Well, if you are going to go that route, why not bring in the Titan Arum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Arum)?


I'm a lousy garderner! But I do know where I can get Durian! Frozen, but still you can smell it aisles away at Ranch 99 Market!

[Alex]

Who knew Alex grew up in a sweatshop?

I did!

While I didn't exactly literally grow up in them I did spend a lot of time in them until around high school when my mom landed an office job at a vocational school.

[Morrigoon]

I grew up in Portland's textile shops

Oh, I gotta hear more about this. Textiles?

[Morrigoon]

I'm a lousy garderner! But I do know where I can get Durian! Frozen, but still you can smell it aisles away at Ranch 99 Market!
I've seen it, but not smelled it. Is your 99 Ranch using open freezers or something?

[Alex]

Nothing much to say. My mom was 17 when was born. She talked her way onto a sewing machine at Janzen Swimwear then Columbia Sportswear and then various other piecework shops of various quality. I jokingly call them sweatshops and they may have been miserable but just seemed normal to me at the time.

As a white woman doing piece work in these places she was kind of an oddity. Vietnamese boat women were a large portion of the workforce. When she worked at smaller places it wasn't uncommon for her to put in long hours and then me and my sisters would frequently come along. So that was my exposure to Vietnamese food when young. And it was also great to play sword fights using the ten foot long tubes that are at the center of industrial fabric rolls.

It also means that home sewing machines look awfully pissant to me since even at home she used cast off industrial machines.

[Snowflake]

I've seen it, but not smelled it. Is your 99 Ranch using open freezers or something?

Nope, open like a fridge door, the durian are bagged in mesh, whole and stinky

[RStar]

Well, I have to agree with that memo. When someone brings a fresh guava and eats it in the breakroom the smell is almost unbearable. We have a lot of hispanics on our workforce, and between that and reheating this shrimp dish with some kind of stinky feet cheese it can smell like vomit in the break room.:eek:

It's a good thing that I have a strong stomach for bad smells.....

[Moonliner]

I know more than a few offices that have banned microwave popcorn over odor issues.

[Betty]

It's true. People that burn microwave popcorn should be banned! Them and their darned stinky popcorn.

(I'm not a popcorn fan to begin with - burn it and ---bleee-eeeeech)