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NutterButter

NutterButter

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This is the first I've ever had to deal with this, but I have a co-worker that most days smells like he slept in a puddle of urine.   He's on my software team so there's no way of avoiding him.  I've talked to a few people at the office and everyone is in agreement.  No one knows how to gracefully deal with this.  He's a 25 year old dude and he's a little emotionally unstable so we don't want to handle it in a way that's going to depress him.   He claims to have a girlfriend which I find hard to believe unless she also smells.   How would you deal with it?

 
Can the manager of your team pull him aside and talk with him?

Or have the manager talk with HR about addressing with the guy.

 
NutterButter said:
This is the first I've ever had to deal with this, but I have a co-worker that most days smells like he slept in a puddle of urine.   He's on my software team so there's no way of avoiding him.  I've talked to a few people at the office and everyone is in agreement.  No one knows how to gracefully deal with this.  He's a 25 year old dude and he's a little emotionally unstable so we don't want to handle it in a way that's going to depress him.   He claims to have a girlfriend which I find hard to believe unless she also smells.   How would you deal with it?
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Ethnicity?

 
You can absolutely fire someone for personal hygiene.  Do you want me to come over there and deal with this?  I'm good at these things. 

Let me know. 

 
White dude.  He's a pretty nice kid so I don't want this to be embarrassing for him although that might not be possible.  It seems so unlikely, but its almost as if no one ever taught him proper personal hygiene.   His hair is a mess, he's has a big messy beard and he even has a bunch of hair coming out of his shirt at the neckline.   The lead for our team is a big richard so i don't want to ask him about it.  Its a somewhat small company, like 100 people, and HR consists of a lady that's also the head of finance.

 
Good point.  Some do look like that though not as many as you think from looking at the back of software books.  More have hipster looks.  No one smells like this.   I've come across more than my share of bums working in New York for a handful of years and some day when its really bad, there's a similarity.

 
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Pay a hooker to hit on him and sleep with him, and have her teach him about hygiene before getting down to business.

Bonus if they fall in love with each other and it turns into a sitcom plot.

 
Vanilla Guerrilla said:
Get his address; have deodorant, cologne and a bar of soap delivered to his house.
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Sounds like a much better idea that an email which indicates a co worker.

If the guy flips out in public its very unlikely the OP would be anywhere near it.

 
Kind of weird timing as there was a guy in the gym at work who smelled like awful bo. Stunk up the entire gym. It was because he didn't change his workout clothes everyday. Just pulled the same sweaty clothes out of his locker every day. Absolutely putrid. I flat out told him he smelled right on the gym floor and that he needs to wear clean clothes everyday because it distracting and disgusting. He laughed and said everyday? And I said yes. Hadn't smelled since then so far but it was only a week ago.

 
Fyi the guy from my story was warned one before by the gym personnel. I figured he didn't care about anyone else's feelings why should I care about his. I'm too old to beat around the bush.

 
Well he did say puddle of urine.  Bernie may have a weak stream but he doesn't need extended TV breaks.

By the way, are you saying Bernie is pro-fart?

 
Man, this happened to me once at my office and honestly I was just shocked by the entire ordeal. It turned into a heated argument and I simply couldn't wrap my head around some of the crap he was spewing. Another co-worker actually had to step in and clam us both down. Eventually, however, I decided to bite the bullet and start wearing deodorant.

 
NutterButter said:
White dude.  He's a pretty nice kid so I don't want this to be embarrassing for him although that might not be possible.  It seems so unlikely, but its almost as if no one ever taught him proper personal hygiene.   His hair is a mess, he's has a big messy beard and he even has a bunch of hair coming out of his shirt at the neckline.   The lead for our team is a big richard so i don't want to ask him about it.  Its a somewhat small company, like 100 people, and HR consists of a lady that's also the head of finance.
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We had a guy that smelled like cat urine and after enough complaints the boss sent him home for the day. He got the message after that. Months later he was fired for poor performance and we never fire any one.

 
This is an Hr issue.  I've worked places with people that smell (at a startup that employed a lot of weird people who didn't bathe) and the Hr people dealt with it each time. 

 
Das Boot said:
Pay a hooker to hit on him and sleep with him, and have her teach him about hygiene before getting down to business.

Bonus if they fall in love with each other and it turns into a sitcom plot.
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If you're going to go this route, send him to an Asian massage parlor so he at least gets cleaned up before he gets serviced.

 
Tom Servo said:
If you're going to go this route, send him to an Asian massage parlor so he at least gets cleaned up before he gets serviced.
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I need to ask HR if this is expense blessed.  Maybe a department wide collection like we do when someone has a kid otherwise 

 
NutterButter said:
I need to ask HR if this is expense blessed.  Maybe a department wide collection like we do when someone has a kid otherwise 
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I think the coworkers pay for the $60 massage and it is up to him if he wants to shell out money for extras.  I doubt HR would okay even just a collection of funds for prostitution purposes although smaller companies are sometimes more progressive.

 
Decorate his cubicle with car air fresheners - the little pine tree cardboard things.

We have a guy at work - Old Weird Tom - who needs to be reminded every now and again to shower or bathe or wash his clothes.  Looks like an extra from The Grinch who stole Christmas, one of the guys standing around the Christmas tree singing. His supervisor, who is a good friend of mine, once told him flat out to go downstairs and shower with soap, or go home for the day and not come back until he had showered with soap. Who is his supervisor?

 
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Ok, so my colleague had a talk with him about this before I got in.  That was at 9:30.  He immediately left the office and hasn't been heard from since.   Apparently, he had no idea. Its That can't be easy to hear that everyone thinks you smell really bad.  Its just shocking to me that his girlfriend or anyone in his family hasn't mentioned anything.

 
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