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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are these people generally jerks or generally nice?  If they are generally nice, I would just say something like “Bob, I’m sorry but can I get you guys to NOT talk about animal butchering before the meetings?  I am really queasy about that kind of stuff and it makes me really sick.”  I have a nephew that butches all of his own meat but he would be super sensitive to the fact that not everyone wants to hear about it!  I think that’s true of stuff like medical discussions, etc.

If they are jerks, then I suspect nothing good will come of you raising this, and you should just get headphones and say something like — I’m going to try to respond to emails  until the meeting starts — just wave a hand when we’re getting started.  [/quote]

Good question. I suspect one of them would understand and stop talking about it (and then hopefully not say anything behind my back. But I like her and she has a good sense of humor. And I help her with our work a lot). I suspect the other one could be a jerk about it. She's odd. She kind of gets going on rants about work related things and next thing you know she blurts out something about hot button political topics. Once she said something about millennials and gen Z people being too sensitive and needing "safe spaces."

Our office is so non-toxic compared to some I've been in. I just don't want to be the one to take it there. [/quote]

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