"you'll smell him well before you see him" (part 2)

[New.Dad]

part 1 was on Jan 10: http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/18945/21724

Now two months later here is the update: one colleague talk to the supervisor, and supposedly the supervisor talked to him. It seemed better for a couple of days, but then he smellt again! then a guy from another department talked to our manager, and again it seemed to get better for couple of days, but he smells again!!! Another (a third) colleague counted the number of days this guy wore the same T-shirt; are you sitting down??? Good, cause it's gonna shock you: 9 (no, not a mistake, NINE) week days. We don't know, but he probably wore the same T-shirt in weekends too. Unfu**ing unbelievable! but smellable true.

the latest joke was when a fourth person made the following comment when we had a visitor: "you'll smell him well before you'll see him". Now that was funny, but still not enough to overcome the disgust of being anywhere within 100 feet of this individual.

[Paul F.]

I knew a guy like that for a while... (kind of a friend of a friend sorta thing).

All his friends kinda got together and decided that they just had to start being downright rude...

"Damn dude, take a fscking SHOWER once in a while"
"Hey, tomorrow change your shirt, that one STINKS!".

"Hey, we'd apprecite it if you left the room while we eat.. you're making us sick"


Polite and discreet will only go so far....

Oh, and the guy in question DID finally start bathing semi-regularly.

[Carm]

New.Dad, thats Fscking sick. Im glad I just had to put up with bad breath from one of my friends. And the dude, liked to talk up a storm.

Good intervention Paul F.
LOL

Carm

[rgG]

Have you considered "accidentally" spilling something on him periodically? Not anything hot or harmful, maybe like a nice warm can of coke that has been sitting around for a bit. You could take turns. Be sure to have a "spare" T-shirt around to offer to him, too. Just a thought.

[New.Dad]

rgG Wrote:
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> Have you considered "accidentally" spilling
> something on him periodically? Not anything hot or
> harmful, maybe like a nice warm can of coke that
> has been sitting around for a bit. You could take
> turns. Be sure to have a "spare" T-shirt around to
> offer to him, too. Just a thought.
>
>

rgG,

nice try, but this problem is so sever I doubt it would help. I think the only way to get rid of that smell is for him to take a shower and wash ALL HIS CLOTHES at the same time. Otherwise there is cross-contamindation back and forth

Have I mentioned that I arrive late to work on purpose so that I can hang my coat anywhere but next to his coat??? once he put his coat next to mine and my wife asked me what is that smell when I got home. See, I knew most people would not understand the magnitude of this problem... it's that bad!

And by the way; it's not the usual body odor (sweat). I don't know how to describe it, but a colleague compared it to the smell of garbage. I think he was right.

[Carm]

Reminds me of the Smelly Car episode in Seinfeld.

Jerry: Boy, do you smell something?
Elaine: Do I smell something? What am I, hard of smelling? Of *course* I smell something.
Jerry: What is it?
Elaine: I think it's B.O.!
Jerry: What?
Elaine: It's B.O. The *valet* must have had B.O.
Jerry: It *can't* be. Nobody has B.O. like this.
Elaine: Jerry. It's *B*.*O*.
Jerry: But the whole car smells.
Elaine: So?
Jerry: So when somebody has B.O., the "O" usually stays with the "B".
Once the "B" leaves, the "O" goes with it.

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSmellyCar.htm

Carm

[rgG]

Oh man, I didn't realize it wasn't just B.O.

I can't imagine having to work in an environment like that. I have a very sensitive nose and even someone with a bit too much perfume gives me a headache. I really think the management of the company needs to do something about this guy. It is unfair to make everyone else work in an environment like that.

[Refurbvirgin]

Get one of those car deodorizer trees, put some double-faced tape on it and pat him on the back when you walk by?

[Carm]

Refurb. That would probably make things worse. Cheap deoderizer and garbage.

Yuck.

[wurm]

Reminds me of the time I had to record the "king" who was doing the voice for a spot for the local Renaissance Faire. He was..shall we say...corpulent, and as he walked toward us down the long hallway to the studio, his presence was sensed well in advance of his being.

I took a deep breath and hustled him into the booth, walked into the control room and told the producer "We're doing one take." Did it, took another deep breath and escorted him out of the booth. As soon as he left, I soaked a paper towel in ammonia and tossed it in the booth and closed the door for the rest of the day.

It seemed to work, but I'm willing to bet the smell was the same as your guy.