Awe man...Scott hit the nail on the head. We have had our project shifted to three different offices in the past four years (now moving to the fourth office in a couple of month' time). In the first office, I was seated below a leaking AC, in the second office my seat faced the women's loo which meant uncomfortable eye-to-eye contact every now and then and in the third office I was seated just outside the men's and women's loo with my back against them.
Making the employee's work-space uncomfortable or distressful is a standard technique used by bosses to harass persons they don't like. I have seen the stratagem in operation, and have been the victim at times. AH Chapman, psychiatrist and author, has elaborated on these stratagems in his well-known book, "Put-Offs And Come-Ons": as I remember it, in the Chapter "Business Strategems".
"Flatulator" is an excellent, fully descriptive word.
Admit it, Adams, you're either subscribed to a certain internal mailing list at a Really Big Network Equipment Maker in Silicon Valley, or someone is funneling you real-time information from it :-)
It shouldn't matter to Alice where Tina's floor plan puts her because if any or all of those people get on Alice's nerves too much, she can just kill them--and Tina, too, while she's at it--with her Fist of Death.