how do you tell someone that they stink?
 

holy craap!

some idiot... our office person. on light duty from maintenence. he has a ZZtop beard, and is the first person you see when you walk into my office...oil under the fingernails...ewww.

anyways. this is starting the second week of body reekness. not only does he smells like he doesnt shower, he smells like he rebuilds holley carbs when he wakes up. BO + gasoline smell. i am not the boss, so i just crack my office window and leave the door closed. but how would you tell someone? have you ever had to?

i am having a wierd work week.

Bi@#$, you stink!!!!!!!









just kidding, obviously. He might be a raving pyscho. I would let the HR dept. know if you have one.They should deal with him in a respectful but forceful manner.

Yeah, HR.

Yeah, let HR handle it.

On a similar note, I got a call from a customer about 8 years ago saying I needed to come in. I showed up, and the customer, a very nice lady, said one of our female employees had an odor problem. I said "ok", and which point the customer pointed "downstairs" and said that was where the smell was coming eminating.

Yeeeeeeahhhhh, that was a fun one to solve.

Bill

Had an engineer from India working for us. Went out with him and bought cologne. He understood.

Tell me about it, a large number of people I work with are from India, and they don't bathe much. Granted I know some that are clean, but most of the time you gotta just hold your breath in the halls.

screw it, be a man and tell him

HR

When I was bartending at topless bars, a particular dancer developed a problem for about two weeks until a manager had to tell her. No HR in a tittie bar.

I've worked with several folks over the years with insufficient personal hygiene. It sucks.

Your doing the guy a favor

If I had something funky going on I would like to know about it.

"Hey bud, 'ya gotta minute? Yeah, I know we don't know each other. You're about to hear from HR about an embarassing issue and you'll probably be glad we don'ty know each other that after I tell you this. Okay, so there's no way to say this nice so I'll just tell you. You've got a SERIOUS B.O. issue dude and people in the office are going to HR about it.
Plus they say you smell like you've got gasoline on your hands. Look, do whatever you need to do about it, but I'm just trying to tell you like I'd want to hear about it....if I had the problem. Good luck"

Completely anonymous, can't hurt

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Yeah, I am interested about that too. I got an indian student who reeks, and I`d like to do something about it. It is like, when he comes in my office at 2 pm, I can smell it till 5 pm. Not cool.

Aurel

hose him down with air freshener

walk in with two giant cans - each one in a gun-slinger type holster -- whip 'em out and have at it

if he takes them away, reach into your socks and pull out a small derringer type can

One of the guys I see frequently has a BO problem. He's a long time Porsche guy and we get along pretty well. In his case, it's his meds more than anything else, but he can can pretty bad on a warm day just pittin' out. I just refuse to go inside anywhere with him and won't take him to events in my car. He shows up on his own. He's married, so I figure if she can stand him, so can I.

In my engineering days, I dealt with this a lot. HR people suck. Sure, here and there I will encounter a good HR person, but for the most part they are worthless bags of worthlessness who do nothing but collect a paycheck and organize a picnic once a year.

HR has a responsibility to set and enforce cleanliness standards in the officeplace. I assume you work in America, and in America it is part of our culture to shower daily. I used to work with people who probably showered quarterly. It was simply unbearable.

I wouldn't go work at a company in India and eat steak at lunch or wear a leather jacket.

Tell HR to do their job.

Whats wrong with grease under the fingernails?????If this is bad, then I am downwright offensive.

me too, but i shower occasionally.

anonymous gift basket with soap, deodorant, cologne, and a cookie. we did it for a stinky teacher a long time ago, and it worked.

I've been having a ****ty month. I got hurt at work and now I feel like a poor employee since HR took me out of my maintenance shop, and put me in an office. To make things worse, the van at the orphanage where i volunteer in the scullery to help feed the children, slung a rod, and I have spent all my spare cash and time getting my hands greasy trying to fix-it for them. Also, I have been having issues with my Harley. Every morning, I have to tickle the carbs to get the old thing running. I don't know how I'll get to work if the Hog breaks down, since I let orphanage use my car until I get the van running. To make things worse, this little prick a work has started busting my balls. All he does every day is set in his office with the door shut and stare out his open window. I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye! We need get rid of 3 quarters of the over paid office staff, and we could use that money to start turning a profit.

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Dude, like all the other delicate situations raised on PPOT, just show him this thread. He'll get it when he reads it....



Wait...



[sniff, sniff]

Damn, you didn't have to start a thread about it...I would have gotten the message with a PM too :)

Slider...

My wife had a similar problem with a co-worker a few years ago. Lady would show up for work all week in the same outfit. Hair was ratty. Teeth were yellow/green. She stunk to high heaven.

HR had sent her home on multiple occasions. She'd shower for a few days--and then relapse.

Did I mention she was suicidal? Husband left her, she lost custody of her kids...

Now I'm a charter member of the "HR is worthless 99.99% of the time" club, but HR had talked to her multiple times, and they reached the point that the only option left was to fire her......and they were afraid of her killing herself (and the likelihood of a lawsuit as a result). I seriously don't know what else they could do. They did segregate her on her own little aisle, but my wife had to train her and could only stand 10 minutes at a time.

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I do know that the external firms from India we work with go over hygiene with those fresh off the boat. I haven't had an issue in years.

Me? It's not uncommon for me to shower 2-4 times a day. Once when I get up. Once at the gym. If I smoked a cigar or grilled out or did yard work, once more before bed. (I can't sleep if I'm sweaty or have been sweaty.)

We had teams from India in on a regular basis before our dept. was outsourced recently. Unfortunately, they must have flown over and didn't take the boat. One day, I had to immediately exit an empty elevator gagging almost to the point of throwing up...the smell was unmistakable and disgusting and not at all unusual during those times. That was NOT the case with those I worked with over the years (that lived here), and I'm not being racist, etc. either...that's just not me. Some said it was due to their diet, but I dunno...

Shenanigans- if you shower daily, it will NEVER get to that point. Sure, you might have a different odor about you, but no WAY will it be that bad.

On a related note, curry farts have a certain pleasant aroma...

Mmmmm....chicken tikka masala.....

Used to be a frequent guest at the Chelsea around the corner from Harrods.

A favorite of the wealthy from Dubai.

I learned quickly to request a room no higher than the 4th floor. That was the longest I could hold my breath.

Seemed to be primarily the men.

The stench was so strong you could almost chew it.

Ughhh.

BO and perfume... brings back memories. I was a mechanic in a plastics plant where it was always 20 degrees warmer inside than ambient. This one young obese woman, a machine operator, had some mental issues. One issue was she stunk so bad that I would literally gag if I had to get within 20 feet of her. She had been send home on two occasions for BO.

Well, after the second time she comes in wearing a gallon of cheap perfume and now it's just cheap sweaty sweet smelling BO. Like 10x worse than before. When I walked into the lunchroom someone remarked that "Anita" was all perfumed up out there and wondered what brand she was wearing. I remarked, "I think it's called Hot Day at the Zoo!" There wasn't a dry eye in the room. :D

Not so sure about that.

Some foods just seem to leach out through you pores, Burritos do it to me, it's why I avoid them.

Burritos leech out of me, but not out my pores...

Yuck. When I worked in Ministry of Defence my boss Gillian Armstrong - hello Gillian, would do the most disgusting farts. Then she would spray cheap perfume around the place. Man. I could handle the farts or the cheap perfume, but together just about knocked me out.

Take a shower you smelly SOB, nip it in the bud!

Years ago working in a engineering dept that was humid, we always
had a fan blowing cool air inside, we had a QA dude that would walk by
and fart in front of the fan and chuckle as he walked off :mad:

Yea we got back at him via coding! (Kerry KMA!)

Dude you stink!!!!!

A lot is not actually to do with bathing.

What you eat and cook can effect your body odur

just the same as a person who goes to a club and comes back smelling of tobacco smoke.

Certain cooking odurs lingers on clothes hair etc

and some foods will be excreted via sweat glands.

if you eat particulalry pungent foods/herbs/spices this will be the case,
Garlic, curry powders etc etc.

also people are not always "aware" that they smell unless they are told.

Some people also have problems with sweat Glands, bad teeth, certain medications as well.

So B4 you start assuming people DONT bathe or unclean think that there actually may be other causes.

Body odor perceived as offensive may be reduced or prevented by using suitable deodorants and although body odor is commonly associated with hygiene, its presentation can be affected by changes in diet as well as those other factors as in my previous post.

hint/tip:
For body odor (underarm, etc..), after your shower/bath, pour small amount of apple cider vinegar on a paper towel and rub under the arms (like a deodorant stick). You will smell like a salad for a few minutes, but it will control the odor by killing the bacteria feeding off the oil secreted by the body. A few days and multiple applications may be required. Red meats should be avoided.

As for bad breath also known as Halitosis, or term used to describe noticeably unpleasant odors exhaled in breathing – whether the smell is from an oral source or not. Halitosis has a significant impact — personally and socially — on those who suffer from it or believe they do (halitophobia), and is estimated to be the 3rd most frequent reason for seeking dental aid, following tooth decay and periodontal disease.

We currently have a youngster fresh outa college that thinks cologne smells good. One of the funnier girls in the office asked him the other day if he had a lunch date. He asked why she thought that and she said she could smell him from up the hall.

i'm hoping he got the point.