Coworkers from Gormenghast

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I'm standing in the kitchen at work attempting to prepare food without vomiting due to the large fellow in the office who refuses to shower. Or change his pants. For months. No kidding. And then stands in the kitchen for hours sorting his correspondence. And the best part is: he holds a position of authority and can't be fired. Other authority figues don't seem to notice the ghastly smell. It's been getting worse for weeks. The hoi polloi all fear starvation. And suddenly, in all this suffering, a thought floats to the top of my mind: HE IS SWELTER FROM GORMENGHAST AND ALL US UNDERLINGS ARE FLAY AND/OR PRE-ESCAPE-FROM-KITCHEN STEERPIKE!!!

This is a real obvious one... anybody else? If you work with Fuschia I'm so envious...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Well, I work with doctors, but I don't think there's a Prunesquallor about.

Commiserations on the Swelter, though, that sounds horrible. Stealth campaign of placing deodorant on his chair?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Please. I work in an Oxfam shop. Pick a character, I work with them and/or deal with them as a customer on a daily basis.

Bless them all.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

One of my coworkers photocopied an picture of Swelter and wrote "Wash me" under it, but then chickened out and tore it up before posting it. Couldn't blame him.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I work with a bunch of overweight Nanny Scaggs's.

― zorn, Monday, 9 May 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

duh! i mean Slaggs's.

― zorn, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Do you wear ear protection?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 12 May 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm fortunate enough to be able to listen to headphones, so I do that quite a bit. When that's not an option, I'm pretty good at tuning them out.

― zorn, Monday, 16 May 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

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