Unidentified cubicle smells
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So, my heart went out to Faith over at Frighteningly Uncommon Sense when she recently wrote the following:
It smells like a ham sandwich at my desk today. I can't trace it to anything, and it's really starting to bother me.Unidentified smells are a nasty side effect of lunches eaten at desks and forgotten leftovers from birthday parties, client meetings and communal kitchen cast-a-ways.
I once had a summer temp job where my office had the sweet odor of rotten fruit for the better part of a week. Only when I reached for a folder in the back of a cabinet did I find the source: a banana peel left by either an overzealous filer or a soon-to-be-ex-employee plotting revenge. Since the folder was not labeled, I'm thinking it was the latter.
Assuming Faith is not the victim of a Dirty Work-inspired prank -- the primary tactic for revenge in the Norm MacDonald movie was to hide dead fish in a house -- there's really only one option for eliminating indeterminate odors.
After a thorough check of the file cabinets and adjacent trash cans, you must simply yield to the power of Febreze. A liberal coating of the three cubicle walls should do the trick -- at least until the next bit of errant hot dog or Chipotle burrito overwhelms your senses.
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