Your co-worker smells, what would you do?

That's a difficult one .... several years ago, I worked in an office & we had a colleague with a body odour problem. We started tactfully just generally discussing good shower products and deodorants, we opened windows, bought air fresheners, bought him toiletries at Christmastime... At one point he (being our supervisor) wanted to rearrange the desks so that he would be sitting in the middle of us instead of at his seperate desk... - we all said we wanted to stay sitting where we were & he asked 'Why? do I smell or something?' One person was brave enough to say 'Well,yes,you do a bit'. He laughed & nothing changed. Eventually, when he was leaning across a colleague and complaining about the smell of the raw pepper she was eating, she just said ' Never mind my pepper! You stink! Why dont you go home and have a good wash!' There was an embarrassed silence across the office but he did start using a deodorant spray.

If I sit beside him daily, there's a good chance that we are already friends, so I may have the guts to tell him that he stinks. If I don't sit beside him, I'll let his seatmate perish Or I'll let a closer friend of his to tell him that.

Two things I have to admit: I would probably wait for someone else to say something. If it's that bad, someone will. I know because it happened to me. I was showering once every two days. I showred every day and that solved the problem.

I would have a quiet word with them. If I smelled then I would much prefer for someone to tell me rather than to laugh about it behind my back. It is harder if you're friends with the person I find. A really close friend of mine smells quite badly, and I don't know how to tell him that! I know that people have told him before, but he has never done anything about it, so I assume he just thinks they're joking about it!

i'll not breathe when i am near him/her...maybe, i'd personally ask her/him if i smell bad so he can reciprocate.

Firstly, I'll try to keep away from him/her. If I have to approach them, I'll not breathe and reduce the time.

I do have one co-worker that his armpits is producing foul odor daily. Some of my co-workers already complained to me. So,one day I talked to him in private and gently told him about the odor. The next day surprisingly he smell fine. I felt glad.

We all smell when we don't observe proper hygiene. I challenge anyone to come forward and say that he/she never stinked at one point or another in his lifetime. My point is, we should not be laughing about people, especially colleagues who smell. He may be having a certain disease or condition that should be treated. The kindest thing that we could do, especially if you're a friend- is to talk to him in private and gently tell him. We should help him out in solving this problem. It's not an unsolvable problem and we can help a lot by being supportive and helpful and not being discriminating or by making him a pariah. Highly spiritual magi treat these people with tenderness, we could go higher our spiritual plane by this simple act of generousity. Happy mylotting.