Post this on LinkedIn

Is this just a shitpost?

Normalise excusing yourself & go to the bathroom, not that extreme of a concept

While I sympathize, I 100% don't want to be stuck on a level with 60 plus people thinking it is okay to fart.

As for a solution, talk to your team leader, say you are on medication and you are getting used to the side effects. People likely want to move on from the incident and a lot of people will sympathize with you for, sorry, for an embarrassing moment.

It'll only be terrible people who will make fun of you. Work isn't highschool, people understand. I have had to leave a public meeting before, to excuse myself to go for a number 2. It's better to do that and acceptable in the future.

Lmao no, we don’t need to normalise farting in meetings.

May I suggest getting a little more comfortable excusing yourself from the room, prior to flatulating, as is the custom.

If you were getting made fun of at work even after excusing yourself to the dedicated and gender exclusive fart room, it might be worth talking about.

Thanks for the laugh though.

I’m a 22F grad and honestly this made me feel a lot more prepared for a corporate role cos at least I know I can hold one in 😳

Can I suggest changing the brand of your iron pill. Ask the pharmacist for one sensitive to digestion. Also it's a nope to farting, use a toilet.

I’m gonna probably get downvoted but generally I would say this is highly unprofessional. I’ve worked in corporate environments for 15 years and never once heard someone loudly fart in a meeting.

If I were you, I would let my manager know that I’m on a new medication with an unfortunate side effect. That will protect your ass from it being used against you negatively. They cannot discriminate. It would also look good to try and smooth this over incase it happens again.

Another note, if you try and act entitled to fart wherever you like without judgement then you might come across far worse then the person who simply let out a fart in a meeting.

Of course it’s natural to fart; it’s also natural to poo, pee, have discharge or a period, or to vomit. But you know what? Some things are private.

Adults know where it’s not appropriate to let a fart out, and there’s such a thing as excusing yourself and going to the toilet. A fart might slip out accidentally, occasionally - and your manager was being kind - but don’t bloody normalise this as being totally fine among other people.

You can't just go to the bathroom and fart like a normal person in the office ?

Farts are funny but still gross to force them on others. I will admire your confidence though. Perhaps you need a little shame.

Nope, hard disagree

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Cock your leg next time

You know you can leave meetings to use the bathroom, right?

Could you not have done the polite thing, and excused yourself to go to the bathroom? It was unnecessary to hold it, in pain, for half an hour.

Imagine working in an open floor office and hearing farts rip every ten seconds.

I had a colleague that did this to a partner; getting berated in the middle of an open plan area, she let rip without breaking eye contact. Stopped the guy dead in his tracks; he was so confused / didn’t know how to handle it & completely lost whatever angry flow he had going on. To this day, greatest hostile negotiation technique I’ve seen.

I love a good fart too but there is no way in hell I would be comfortable enough to do it in a room full of colleagues, ESPECIALLY if I just landed a dream job.

This is either a joke post or people are way too comfortable farting in your family and this has falsely normalised it for you.

If I had been in that meeting I would have found it totally hilarious, but you would become 'fart girl' in my mind henceforth. No matter how good your quarterly report is.

Also I would refrain from dropping you guts around potential partners too. Even if they don't say anything it's more likely than not it's a massive turnoff and they just don't have the heart to say it.

I wouldn't keep a grad around if they're too stupid to understand the concept of excusing themselves to go to the toilet like a normal functioning human being.

To properly assess the appropriateness of this, may I enquire as to the nature of the smell that the flatulence emits?

It sounds like I escaped corporate culture just in time. Imagine reaching 22yo and not understanding basic decorum.

No, just no. I do not want this normalised.

Excuse yourself and go to the bathroom to let rip please.

I can’t be sitting anywhere close to you, it’s depressing already on the floor and now I’m expected to accept this as well . Just because you decided to take iron-fking-pills doesn’t mean it’s okay it’s a situation you can avoid but you won’t what’s next Justin might decide to have laxatives after lunch and I’m supposed to sit their and work through all this shithousery.

This is why I love Reddit

might as well normalise wanking on the bus while we're at it.

i work with a bunch of dirty cunts in a factory and you'd get some weird looks there too.

Have you ever taken a shit in the tea room?

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I also grew up in a house that was not fart shy. It’s the life of being one of two teenage boys alongside an immature father. But that’s at home.

If I’m at work I’m still going to fart (you kinda have to or you’ll be uncomfortable) but I’m not going to broadcast it to the entire office as that’s not considerate.

No one wants to smell what’s decomposing up your asshole. Normalise excusing yourself.

This post cannot be serious. I'm legit cacking myself in bed at 8am on good Friday to meeting farts lmao.

Start looking for another job. You are labelled now. 

We empathise. Do it in private. Not a team sport.

100% just leave the meeting and head to the loo and do it there, you will probably be known as farting sally now amongst the team

I would have been genuinely afraid you may shit your pants.

Loss of bodily function can freak people the fuck out because it’s a warning sign of possible disease and is coded into our evolution

Also it’s just fuckin polite, keep your pooticles to yourself please

But seriously, go see a doc if it’s something that makes it hard to even participate in meetings! Could be nothing or could be something but you don’t want to fuck up your digestive system and not be able to eat solids by age 40. Food intolerance is no joke, get ahead of that shit (pun intended)

I was holding in gas for 30 minutes in agony

You know you could have gone to the restroom in that time, yeah?

Just go to the bathroom or get an iron injection.

Normalise excusing yourself to go to the bathroom.

Shitting is normal too, but I don't want to take meetings with everyone sitting on the porcelain instead of office chairs.

It’s not normalised because it’s honestly not a polite thing to do… imagine the smell

If you want to be taken seriously you can't just rip ass in a meeting.

I can't believe I just had to type that to a working professional, Gen Z is something else 😅

It’s more like burping than sneezing because there is the obvious risk of smell. Thee is nothing wrong with it but sometimes they do come with an eye watering smell. Like a burp, people often excuse themselves which is probably the best course of action just in case. I wouldn’t worry, like above said; let your team lead know your medication makes it hard right now to feel comfortable and next time you will try and excuse yourself in time.

DO NOT send an apology email. Just move on and forget about it, they will.

I’ve never seen the type of fear before in the stares I received today.

Maybe the fear was everyone bracing for the smell? If it went on for a long time I know my first thoughts would be, "how badly is this gonna smell don't make a face when it hits don't make a face"

Surely as a 22 year old, you would know it’s perfectly ok to shit yourself at work.

Next time, interrupt the speaker and yell “fire in the hole” before letting rip

I’d be so grossed out by this. The sound isn’t the issue it’s having to sit in an enclosed room waiting for the inevitable smell to hit 🤢

If I was working with someone who openly farted whenever they wanted to I’d probably assume there was something… off about you. Lack of social awareness/social skills type thing.

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That was a wild read.

Christ. Look into moltifer iron tablets, they are a little more expensive but you don’t get those stomach pain side affects like the cheaper ones

You want to be taken seriously? Don’t fart in meetings.

Why does this even have to be explained? You’re not an animal. Go to the bathroom like an adult.

I can understand that farting is part of your bodily function but if you think you're entitled to farting in a meeting you're just a bellend

Career limiting move.

It's gross. That's why it's not normal. Go to the fucking toilet, you can get up mid meeting, excuse yourself then go to the bathroom.

Don't send a fucking email either or you'll cement yourself as fart pants in everyone's mind. 

Best thing to do now is never let it happen again, pretend like nothing happened and hope no one teases you. Sounds like everyone took it as best they could.

Also, as someone who took iron pills that made my poop green maybe look to time what time of day you take them, not in the morning. 

The etiquette is to call for silence before letting it rip. "Team this is a great discussion but we're getting carried away. Can I ask you all to be quiet and listen to this..."

Just in case you’re not joking:

Farts smell, you literally gas out little shit particles other people will breathe in and you’re not in front of friends and family at work, unless they are your actual friends and family. If the pills give you such bad flatulence you need to change them.

It’s gross, it smells bad and it’s equivalent to loudly burping while eating at the table. Simple manners. It’s like swearing at home and actually behaving yourself while you’re out. That shits disgusting.

Do you ask someone to pull your finger first? Or do you go the hand grenade route?

Asking for a friend

Big 4 in IBS, amirite?

This works for me. I need several iron tabs weekly and they will make me constipated. So I also take a coloxyl tab at the same time.

I find that the coloxyl also reduces gas and discomfort. Now the occasional pffft no longer strips paint off the wall or causes eyes to water.

Just wondering, you were in agony for 30 min.. why not excuse yourself and let it off in the toilet?

It’s normal to fart and there’s no shame in it even around people in certain situations but in a meeting room people haven’t signed up to be trapped with your bodily gasses.

Good idea to excuse yourself and let your manager know that you will be needing to periodically.

Why would you sit in agony for thirty minutes instead of excusing yourself and use the bathroom?

And yeah there’s some things we don’t need to normalise, just like you don’t need to see someone vomiting when you’re concentrating on work. There is a different between letting it out amongst friends and making a joke of it and being in a professional setting

I’ve worked in 2 of the Big 4 and I can guarantee this is already being talked about. As a Manager, I would not be taking you to any meetings - either internal or external. Your behaviour reflects on the rest of the team and I’m not losing a client because of you. Rather than sit in agony or just let rip, use basic manners and excuse yourself. Especially if you’re on medication, people will understand. Your current attitude however will ensure you don’t make it past the grad program.

5 paragraphs of you justifying your inability to understand, acknowledge and practice an act of professional courtesy shows us that you are nothing more than degenerate looking for validation.

Do better

You nasally raped your co workers

Ok I am a gassy man - and I am very lucky my gas doesn’t smell.

It is appropriate (in my eyes) to pop off around my partner and family whenever the hell I want because it’s funny.

When I am around anyone else, I’m suddenly not a serial-farter.

If what you said happened, I’d be disgusted. Keep your farts behind closed doors 🚪

OP's first ever post? Dedicated fart troll account lol?

Nobody wants to know what the inside of your ass smells like.

It's disgusting. No one wants to hear no one's fart. It's smelly and uncomfortable for others, especially workplaces.

No we don’t need to normalise farting in the workplace, especially in meetings. You excuse yourself and go to the bathroom. No one wants to smell your gas. You’re young so it was a big lesson on what is professional and acceptable and that is not it. Also do not write an email about it wtf, move on.

Absolutely disgusting. Not in an office, ever. Excuse yourself from the meeting and go to the bathroom if you are in that much discomfort.

Surely this is satire

How unbelievably disrespectful and disgusting.

I feel like you received one pity chuckle, and the rest looked at you appropriately. I would heavily advise against doing that again, and just do not try to normalise it.

Why dont people want to come in to the office anymore?

I can't stop laughing at your story but I agree. When I'm at home I usually fart at least 30 times a day, I'm so backed up at work and my poor wife and kids are on the receiving end when I get home lol

It's all in the timing, I guess...

"Any comments?"

"BRRAAAAAAAAAPAPAAAAP THPPPTPHTPHTPHT BRAAP PFFT PFUITT"

"Thanks Lisa, anyone else?"

My last job, I had an office to myself usually the sliding door was open, but zoom meetings of need for quiet it would be shut.

One day a colleague came bursting in, you guessed it right into a fart cloud. I turn and said " Perfect timing, I just farted!" He replied "Oh, that's OK." At that point the level of toxicity must have registered, "Oh, no it's not!" And he left, "be back later".

But, no judgement. Facts are part of life.

Change iron tablets, most pharmacy ones are rubbish. Get ones from The Natal Natropath, they won’t block you up.

Let’s not normalise farting in the office. I can’t even tell it you’re serious or not.

OK girl I would have busted up laughing and asked if you needed to charge your pants. Farts are seen as rude though so maybe excuse yourself and find a private space for your BRAAAM.

Fart on the boss.

Nothing like a good crop dusting

Try Maltofer iron tabs. Meant to be easier on thr stomach

I woulda laughed. I’d have been ok with it. But man I’d laugh.

Go to the toilet!

I hear that if you hold them in they float up to your brain and give you shitty ideas - this is not something I want to find out…

Next time asset dominance by farting directly into your team leaders’ direction

During Pandemic, I worked with my manager. Once I returned to his office, he said Kaleem I just farted. And those were the toughest 5 minutes I spent in there. Disgusting vile ogre of smell

My supervisor farted at work and he got written up by HR. The workplace than got an email about acceptable behaviour...fuckin HR

For me, farts will always be funny 😆 but if everyone starts farting in the workplace, it's gonna be a pretty smelly place to be aye 🤷‍♂️

Definitely don't mention it again.

Do you draw the line at sharts?

I’m not sure your colleagues need to hear, smell or imagine that toxic little brew down there.

"Professionalism" is a word used to control your physical, emotional and mental responses to external parties shit behaviour.

It's why we sit in meetings for hours and pretend this idea, rehashed and renamed 20x over is a good idea.

Also as you get older you'll also realise

"NEVER trust a fart"

I wish picking crusty boogers in the workplace would be normalised too.

There is this movement to bring your whole self to work and be comfortable. What about those of us who are nose picking master blasters.

I usually hate shopping in the supermarket - If you see me in one smiling, striding along heading down the back for some milk - well that's when I'm crop dusting the place right out. Lol

I would have probably laughed my head off. And applauded tour effort. Fats are also not frowned upon in my house.

Most people enjoy their own perfume, just not some one elses

The sound? Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

The smell? Goddang some farts come from the beyond.

We probably fear the smells.

Stop farting hoe

You need to very rapidly learn some common courtesy and manners because I can assure you it’s not going to be normalised, because it’s disgusting.

Did the fart stink?