Office etiquette question

[prog]

Seriously: could there exist any medical reason why someone would need to spit very noisily -- that is, putting great vocal effort into creating and then and expectorating a significant phlegm-ball -- every time they visit the bathroom, with multiple loogie-hawkings per visit?

I am pondering leaving a note for this person, whose identity I have yet to verify, since it outgrosses my colleagues and I, who sit next to the bathroom, very much, but I don't want to seem insensitive if there's a chance that this person has a condition of some sort...

Comments

Well sure...

[(Anonymous)]

Of course there could be reasons medically....

Of course, as someone else noted in the comments, doing stuff in the bathroom affords you a certain measure of privacy. If the walls are too thin, sure, ask some PHB to either get you moved or get the walls sound deadened or something.

I remember working in an office where my work area was in the back, past the bathroom. And so, sharing the wall with the bathroom left my privy (pun intended) to hearing such noises. Of course, in the summer, my section was too damned hot and I was mostly asleep anyway.

We know that 'prog' remember the office in winslow over by the dam, don't we? :)

j