u/ashitananjini

My coworker has been coughing at least once an hour (but usually more) every day for 4 months, and it’s driving me crazy. I am trying to ignore it and not obsess over it, but it’s the equivalent of trying to ignore and not obsess over an ice pick being stabbed into your skull over and over.

He is older. He’s always coughing or clearing his throat. I asked him not too long ago if he was going to the doctor. He said “what for?” so clearly it’s not an issue to him.

I cannot wear earbuds. I don’t know what to do other than grind my teeth into nubs and suffer.

If you have any tips, please share. It makes me dread coming to work, and my job would already be highly stressful without having to hear this all the time.