You are stinking up the lunch room. Take a shower already. I went down to the break room to eat my morning bagel and you sit right next to me smelling like you haven’t bathed in a week or so.
I know you can afford soap, now wash that ass, cause honey people can smell you coming a mile away. I was gagging on my cream cheese.
On top of it you were eating the most disgusting thing I have ever seen anyone eat in my whole entire life. You bought a fish from the roach coach, a whole fish, even with the eye balls still in it. You were cutting into it like it was a steak. Yuck!
Now you are going to smell like dirty ass and fish.:eek:
I know my senses are magnified because I haven’t smoked in two days, but shit, I know you are not wearing clean underwear. I can tell by looking at you that your hair hasn’t been washed in a long time. And after you eat that fish, noone is going to want to talk to you.
There should be some kind of rule here about your appearance. I like you and all, but fuck, take a shower, brush your teeth, do something about the way you come dressed to work, it’s disgusting.
This kind of shit annoys me. I feel sorry for her. Someone really needs to tell her, but I am afraid I will hurt her feelings. This is a real sore subject for some people.
Dunno if it would work–never tried myself–but a friend of mine, in a similar situation as yours, presented the Odorous Offender with an anonymous “Gift Box” containing soap, deodorant, mouthwash, etc.
She (the friend) said that it was heart-wrenching to see the poor fella’s face as he opened the box…
Are you talkin about my ex wife by any chance? She used to basically not shower for a week and she ate some nasty shit like sardines quite often. Of course… she was a fat slob with no self-esteem and she worked in a meat factory so she didn’t think anyone cared. How she ended up cheating on me in that environment is beyond me…
My basic point is that there is an obvious self-esteem problem here. And then this occured to me…
You’re a SMOKER!!! TAKE YOUR SMELLY ASS OUTSIDE YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITICAL FREAK. I would much rather smell BO and fish than your disgusting cloud of death.
I hope you are quitting smoking. I’m an ex-smoker myself, and when I quit… I sent out a letter to the whole office apologizing for subjecting them to the stench. I can literally smell it 30 feet away. It’s sick. I mostly sent the letter out so the other smokers in the office might realize that they… are… FUNKY!
OTOH, I sympathise with the problem. We used to have a guy that worked here who, I swear, had a 30-inch beard, and hair to match. This would have been fine except that he would come in for days on end with the same peice of food in the beard, or in the hair. One day I asked him if it was against his religion to wash his hair (he’s wiccan - oooh). After that I noticed a definate improvement. You should talk to this person… the worst that can happen is she doesn’t like you anymore and won’t sit near you at lunch… and that shouldn’t be a problem.
There is no accounting for people’s taste in food and there may be cultural, moral or religious reasons for her dietary choices so really there is nothing you can or should say about her eating habits.
If she is truly as offensive to the olfactory senses as you say then you should just tell her. It is a fact that most people can not smell themselves because their noses get used to their own smell.
Don’t beat around the bush but don’t be nasty and say things that will hurt her unnecessarily either. Simply say “I don’t know if are aware it but you have a strong body odor” (now this is where you can separate yourself from the issue and make it appear like you are the good guy) continue with “other people have mentioned it and I’m sure you would be embarrassed if you accidently overheard their comments, so even though I know this is none of my business and you have every right to tell me to go screw myself, I thought I should tell you because I know how hurt I would be if I overheard comments about me like the comments I am hearing about you. I just thought you should know.”
Perhaps she is depressed or has low self esteem or perhaps she just doesn’t realize that she does smell. Maybe she needs a wake up call of sorts. You didn’t specify but it sounds as if this is a coworker. You could always mention her problem to her manager or supervisor and that person could say something to her. Whatever is said it should be done in a private descreet manner, certainly not in the common lunch room within ear shot of everyone.
There used to be a web site where you could send an anonymous email to people about embarrassing things like body odor and bad breath and the like, and I think they would get coupons for helpful products. “50 cents off out best selling Butt Perfume, Chanel #2!”
igotit, do you work at the same place I do? I’m inclined to think so. My work place is full of SB’s(work place code for Smelly Bastards). I’m way beyond tired of it, there is no excuse for the people I work with… They have been told by management numerous times. The thing is, is that this is a small company, and smelly people make up half the staff. We tried the secret gift pack approach, it didn’t work. Maybe they didn’t know what it was. “Ooooh wierd smelly stick thingy” and gave it to their now not as smelly dog. It drives me crazy, TAKE A DAMN SHOWER! Your odor is distracting and you have no excuse.
Last year at Gen Con, some folks were handing out free samples of a new “game” called “The Hygiene Game.” Each one came in a baggie and contained a little rulesheet (tongue in cheek descriptions of how to use various cleaning products on your body) and a couple of random personal-care items (hotel-sized soap, little packets of shampoo, mini-toothbrushes, etc.) It was amusing because if you’ve ever been to a gaming convention, you know there are a subset of the attendees who have never played this game in their lives. These days when the spouse and I pass a smelly individual, we comment to each other (out of their earshot, of course) that they “aren’t playing The Hygiene Game.”
Maybe you could put together a little thing like this and leave it on her desk when she isn’t around…
I work for an Internet service provider. Particularly in the techsupport department. It seems to be a magnet for every local techie with a little bit of school to get a job here, most of them “don’t play the hygiene game” as winterhawk11 so eloquently put.
I work for company with a lot of employees from other countries. I’m sorry is this sounds bigoted, but it really seems like a lot of people from Europe simply don’t bathe enough. I know there are cultural differences, but what European cultural legecy demands that a person smell like a wookiee’s cunt?
Nice to see that none of you are among the ones who thought it was all MY PROBLEM when a classmate wore a bucket of stench to class.
The way some cultures tolerate BO is unimaginable to you. Why some people must stink like the cosmetic counter - its unimaginable to ME.
soooooo before you hand that girl a care pack of deodorant, give yourself a sniff - perhaps you are offensive to someone’s nose.
And for gods sake have tack, this kind of funny joke could drive a depressed person over the edge. I feel really sorry for her.
Here’s a web site that sends anonymous messages to those who need help in hygiene. I haven’t used it or anything, so I don’t know if it sends a polite message or “Hey asslips! You stink so bad it interferes with radio transmissions!”
While I’m all for daily bathing and the occasional application of deodorant, I am SO! with you on that one, kellibelli. I hate overbearing perfume and cologne. It makes my throat feel all chokey.
Unfortunately, there is a lovely gentleman who volunteers in my office, who breaks BOTH of the blessed “Stench Rules”. He doesn’t bathe, and then tries to cover up the BO by dunking himself in cheap cologne.
The “foreigner odor” (for lack of a more PC term) seems to be related to diet.
There’s “that asian smell”, “that Indian/Pakistani smell”… anybody in a computer profession knows what I’m talking about.
BO tolerance is definitely higher pretty much everywhere else in the world. Daily use of deoderant was, until not too long ago, a strictly american phenomenon.
Don’t get me started on my “trying to buy deoderant in Paris” story…
