Is there a tactful way to ask a coworker to stop popping her gum? Anyone within a 20 ft radius can hear!?

Answer 1

Speak to her manager. Explain in non-confrontational terms that the gum popping is distracting to all those around her. The manager will hopefully then talk to her, not brining up any names, and deal with the situation. She may not even be aware that she's doing it.

Answer 2

You could always leave an anonymous note. Perhaps a little poem that manages to say in a nice way that chewing/snapping gum is unattractive and irritating.

I'm no poet, so I can't come up with one for you. But I bet if you searched for poems and gum you might find something.

Ok, I found a few things.

"Dear friends, we surely all agree
There's almost nothing worse to see
Than some repulsive little bum
Who's always chewing chewing gum.
(It's very near as bad as those
Who sit around and pick the nose).
So please believe us when we say
That chewing gum will never pay;
This sticky habit's bound to send
The chewer to a sticky end.
Did any of you ever know
A person called Miss Bigelow?
This dreadful woman saw no wrong
In chewing, chewing all day long.
She chewed while bathing in the tub,
She chewed while dancing at her club,
She chewed in church and on the bus;
It really was quite ludicrous!
And when she couldn't find her gum,
She'd chew up the linoleum,
Or anything that happened near–
A pair of boots, the postman's ear,
Or other people's underclothes,
And once she chewed her boy friend's nose.
She went on chewing till, at last,
Her chewing muscles grew so vast
That from her face her giant chin
Stuck out just like a violin.
For years and years she chewed away,
Consuming fifty packs a day,
Until one summer's eve, alas,
A horrid business came to pass.
Miss Bigelow went late to bed,
For half an hour she lay and read,
Chewing and chewing all the while
Like some great clockwork crocodile.
At last, she put her gum away
Upon a special little tray,
And settled back and went to sleep–
(She managed this by counting sheep).
But now, how strange! Although she slept,
Those massive jaws of hers still kept
On chewing, chewing through the night,
Even with nothing there to bite.
They were, you see, in such a groove
They positively had to move.
And very grim it was to hear
In pitchy darkness, loud and clear,
This sleeping woman's great big trap
Opening and shutting, snap–snap–snap!
Faster and faster, chop–chop–chop,
The noise went on, it wouldn't stop.
Until at last her jaws decide
To pause and open extra wide,
And with the most tremendous chew
They bit the lady's tongue in two.
Thereafter, just from chewing gum,
Miss Bigelow was always dumb,
And spent her life shut up in some
Disgusting sanatorium.
And that is why we'll try so hard
To save Miss Violet Beauregard
From suffering an equal fate.
She's still quite young. It's not too late,
Provided she survives the cure.
We hope she does. We can't be sure."

Answer 3

This person might not be even aware that she does pop her gum so much, since it very well could be an unconscious habit. Maybe you could just talk to her and mention it, "Hey, Donna, did you know that the sounds from your gum go all over the office? Sometimes I heard it when I'm over at Bill's cubicle. I thought maybe you'd want to know."

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Go up to her with a needle or a tumb tack (since you work in an office) and POP her bubble gum is she is blowing it. If not go up her and start smacking on some gum, she'll get the point (let's hope).

Answer 6

A tactful way? I don't know if there is one, but I once told a co-worker flat out to quick snapping that gum. She threw it out much to my relief.

Answer 7

Oh man, that wouldn't last long with me ! That habit is extremely rude and I would ask her to stop once, politely of course. If that didn't work, she'd be reported to the supervisor.

Answer 8

Approach your coworker first. Politely ask if she could refrain from popping their gum.
If this does not work you will need to then approach first level supervision.

Answer 9

Take her aside and ask her if she fancies swallowing the whole pack of gum, packaging and all whole.......telling her its a simple choice of that or stop popping it

Answer 10

MAke a sign that says no gum chewing and post it up where everyone especially her can see.