Sniffing and irritating habits

Hoo boy, my previous blog was rather ranty. However, I do feel that this was with good cause.

As many people know all too well, working in an office environment isn’t always easy. Like it or not, your work colleagues are the people that you spend most of your waking hours with. Sometimes, you end up knowing them better than your friends and family and often it grates.

For starters, unless you’re very lucky, you work at extremely close quarters. In my case, I work for a team sharing a bank of desks. I dislike this, particularly as in a previous job, I had my own office. Oh, that was such bliss. However, I digress. Working in close quarters, you get to notice other peoples annoying habits very, very quickly. For me, I cannot stand the following:

- Sniffing
- Heavy breathing
- Talking with mouth full
- Eating with mouth open
- Burping
- Eating loudly

Now, I know many of these are things which other people wouldn’t find as irritating as I do. I am also well aware that some are natural bodily functions. However, surely people could have the courtesy to use a tissue sometimes?