How do I approach this? ******

Damn straight 9! Man, how can you be so wrong about some things and so right about this! Ah, just kidding brother! You're dead on with this issue though. Average Joe, take note!

Every time she slurps and smacks her lips, say, "that sounded good, what are you eating?" Do this a few times a day for a couple of weeks. Your problem will be solved.

Seriously, cubicle employees are like packing peanuts. You always need some around, can always find more if you wait for the mail, and they are generally worthless. You come into my office with a complaint like that and I'm documenting your whiny ass.

9 wrote:

If you simply cant get over it, try just saying something playfull to bring it to her attention you can hear her, like "Is it that good?" Alot of people honestly are not aware of how audible they are in their cubi-cells.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

You're dead on with this issue though. Average Joe, take note!

Since what 9 describes would qualify as both "speaking up" as well as "couching it in whatever terms you want" (which is what I told him to do), I'm glad to see you've finally come around, Flagpole

Average Joe,

While 9 did give him a better way to approach her on it than you did, I was referring to the general tone of his post which was to steer clear of the situation.

Here's what 9 wrote that is RIGHT ON:

"But seriously, this is not something you are going to count as a "issue at work" two years down the line in your next interview, and if it is, the HR person across the desk from you will immediatly shove you to the "nitpickybitch" pile of resumes."

No matter what, your "tell-her-like-it-is" approach is the wrong way to go about it. He should NUT UP and leave it alone. Sometimes it takes a MAN to NOT do anything.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Sometimes it takes a MAN to NOT do anything.

And sometimes ya gotta fight when your a man. Flagpole, I just hope you understand.

Grow up and ignore it.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

No matter what, your "tell-her-like-it-is" approach is the wrong way to go about it. He should NUT UP and leave it alone. Sometimes it takes a MAN to NOT do anything.

I guess you just don't have the ability to put things the right way without offending people, Flagpole. Judging by your sample approach, I can see why you would advise against it. If this guy doesn't have any better tact than you, I would agree that he should definitely not try.

"9's" example approach was excellent. Didn't make a "battle" out of it at all.

Ken Rogers wrote:

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Sometimes it takes a MAN to NOT do anything.

And sometimes ya gotta fight when your a man. Flagpole, I just hope you understand.

Ye of chicken restaurants,

If you know your own song though, you'll notice that Tommy DOESN'T fight until his Becky is manhandled. Watching a woman eat with her mouth open is hardly the equivalent.

Average Joe,

Normally you post decent stuff, but here you are just wrong, and your approach was the same as 9's. You said he should tell her to "flat out stop". And then you told him to have a backbone.

Basically, if someone needs to get all amped up over some loud chewing, then he has no backbone. You suggested taking a hardline approach to it, and it is the wrong thing to do. 9 had it mostly right. His only problem was in giving the guy an out at all to approach her about it. The guy should just grow up and NUT UP. Oh no, that "girl" over there is chewing too loudly, boo hoo hoo! Man, what a freakin' whiner.

I gave him the MATURE and PROFESSIONAL reaction. You chose the opposite.

Ok, it's time for some common sense to come in here.

After she leaves to go to the bathroom, take some food of yours, chew it up, not too much, spit it out on her desk. go back to your cude. fast. perhaps go to the bathroom. act shocked when you see it. pray they do not do a dna test. this will gross her out and maybe cause her not to want to eat there anymore.

just make sure you dont spit out what you were having for lunch that day. you dont want them to make the connection. on the day you do this make sure to announce you are going out to eat. that will throw them off your trail.

now go do it.

still in need of a hammer.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Man, what a freakin' whiner.

On that we agree. But then again, neither one of us sits next to this person so we don't know how really bad it is, do we?

I gave him the MATURE and PROFESSIONAL reaction.

Well one of us did, anyway.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

If you know your own song though, you'll notice that Tommy DOESN'T fight until his Becky is manhandled.

And besides 20 years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him.

Average_Joe wrote:

Flagpole Willy wrote:

If you know your own song though, you'll notice that Tommy DOESN'T fight until his Becky is manhandled.

And besides 20 years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him.

If we have to end this discussion on a cheesy Kenny Rogers song, then so be it.

"...and he said, 'this one's for Becky' as he watched the last one fall."

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Average_Joe wrote:

And besides 20 years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him.

If we have to end this discussion on a cheesy Kenny Rogers song, then so be it.

"...and he said, 'this one's for Becky' as he watched the last one fall."

20 years of crawlin = 1 year in a cube.

You got act cube boy.