Oh my God. I’m at work and the cleaning lady just came in. She has the worse BO of any woman I have ever smelled. We are talking stinking, raunchy line-backer after the big-game type BO, without all the perks of a man in tight fitting pants.
Gah, gah, gah.
Oh, this is nasty.
Now my whole office is smelly.
Gosh I hope she doesn’t have some sort of disorder…
I think I need to lie down with a cool cloth over my eyes. Actually, scratch that and make it a cool cloth over my NOSE!!!
I’ve had exactly the same experience at my place of work! If I’m here when the cleaning folks come in, I have to close my door to protect myself. How is this kind of smell even possible for a person to produce? You’d think that this would be a disqualifying characteristic when they were hiring cleaning people. . . Egads.
You sincerely have my sympathy - I had the smelliest co-worker in history up until earlier this year. (He was even the subject of a thread a few months back!) Eventually, he got fired and I got promoted(?) into his job. First order of business: cleaning out the years of crap acculmulated in his desk, office, filing cabinets, etc. Calendars from 1994, the cardboard backs of notepads (at least a hundred notepad backs, I’m not kidding) you name it, there was weird crap in there by the bucketful. The IT department came downstairs with a brand new keyboard and mouse for me, even though the old ones worked fine. They were just covered in a greasy black film that actually blacked out the letters on some keys::shudder::
My boss helped me out, bless his heart. FOUR full garbage bags came out of that desk and filing cabinet. (how is that even possible?) Then every smooth surface was hosed down with a foamy coat of “Spray 9” cleanser. The label claimed that this stuff could kill HIV, staph and possibly tuberculosis,(I can’t quite recall)so I figured that it might do some good in this office.
I once had a cow-orker who believed in the health benefits of garlic so much that he ate raw garlic on a regular basis. It wasn’t his breath so much as the fact that he was so saturated by the stuff that it came out of his pores along with his sweat. The man REEKED of it. (I like garlic, but not like this.) Maybe your cleaning lady follows the same dietary plan.
**ASS SMELL??? ASS SMELL??**Good Lord! It still smells? what is wrong with the poor guy?
And as for the hep b, that thought never crossed my mind. Yikes. I don’t recall seeing any dried blood around, so I guess that I’m OK. I was more concerned about the kind of illnesses that you can get by never ever washing (i.e. E.Coli bacteria all over the place from not washing your freakin’ hands after using the toilet. That sort of stuff was my real concern)
I used to consult for the worst-smelling customer imaginable. I’m not particularly dainty in this respect, ex-Army and all, but I could easily tell which office was his by walking down the hallway at his workplace. It MUST have been some sort of disorder.
I literally printed screen dumps in duplicate and handed one to him when we had to talk something over, because it provided a bit of distance compared to having us look at the same screen - and the extra hassle was SO worth it.
Yup. It’s official, it’s world-wide. Cleaning people in the Netherlands smell horrible as well. I usually work until about 19:00, and around 18:00, Smelly Cleaning Guy walks in. Now mind you, my office is pretty big. Say, 7 by 4 meters or so (I share it with 2 other people).
This guy’s smell fills up that room faster than he can hook up the friggin’ vaccuum cleaner. UGH.