We need to have a talk

This is another of my sneezing stories.

When I worked at my first serious, real, after-college job, I was in a cubicle next to a bunch of other cubicles. So when I sneezed (loudly), sometimes it carried in the quiet work environment. We were often on the phone with customers, and after I sneezed one time, my neighbor said that her customer on the phone said to tell me "God bless you!" So, among my team of co-workers, my sneezes were well known. One day, my manager wanted to have a talk with me. She pulled me aside, and said that some people had said that my sneezing was interrupting their work.

--It's a SNEEZE, people! You can't hear a sneeze six cubicles away without it interrupting your phone call? What happens when you sneeze yourself? Do you have to go home for the rest of the day?--

Anyway, she asked if there was anything I could do so that my sneezes weren't so loud. It was then that I realized I couldn't work there any more. I was a great employee, I did my job accurately and efficiently, customers liked me and I followed company policies and regulations. And you're going to pull me aside and ask me to change the way I naturally sneeze? Outrageous.

After having left that job, I told my next supervisor at my next job about that, and she agreed with me that it was ridiculous. From then on, every time I'd sneeze at work, she'd say "Megan, we need to have a talk about your sneezes."