Anyone work with a smelly ba**ard?

[hornadylnl]

Thought I'd continue on with the working with a dumbass thread. I'm talking stomach turning stink. I work with one and it's nasty. I can appreciate going home smelling funky after a hard days work but to show up to work every day stinking? It's 2009 and some people still don't know what a bar of soap is for.

 

[JcJ]

I've got a smelly bastard that works for me. Lucky for me his BO masks his rancid breath, I think he must snack on dog turds on his way into work.. His clothes smell like a moldy bag of Doritos..

I have been contemplating taking one of my kids Easter baskets and stocking it with deodorant, soap, a tooth brush, Scope, Lysol maybe some brake cleaner...

 

[MyGlockRocks19]

My boss has absolutely HORRID breath...I can't stand to be too close to him when he's talking, as its bad enough to make me gag. Wierd thing is, he's very clean cut otherwise...perhaps some kind of medical condition makes his breath so terrible.

I also work with this girl that always smells like vanilla and banana cookies...I know its kinda the opposite of what you're looking for, but it DOES drive me nuts.

 

[hornadylnl]

this isn't a temporary smell. It's a permanent funk. You know his old lady has to smell the same. My wife would chew me up and spit me out if I tried crawling into bed smelling like that.

 

[MyGlockRocks19]

Skip the deodorant and brake cleaner, then...I've got one word for you. Bleach.

There is absolutely nothing that the judicious application of chlorine bleach cannot fix. Just make sure you test an out of the way section of his skin first, to make sure he's colorfast.

 

[clt46910]

Many years ago when I worked as an Air Traffic Controller we would sometimes run into this. In the old units we worked very close to each other and many times somone was leaning over your shoulder and talking into your ear with information. So most of us was very aware of odor.

Normally it took only a talk from one of his friends to correct the problem. Most people are not aware that they have a problem. While embarrassing to some, you might be helping them a lot to discreetly point it out to them.

Then again the guy that stinks in body, clothing and breath every morning may not give a damn.

 

[JByer323]

I work at a restaurant, and there's a server there who pretty much always smells like ****. It's repulsive, and I couldn't imagine having him wait on my table.

 

[RelicHound]

not to many folks with BO issues here but we do have one guy that thinks he is slick...he comes in every morning smelling like old spice and pot..he's got a surprise DT coming up soon

we have another guy who has a bit of a weight issue and I am always getting complaints from the guys,saying they are sick of seeing the dudes ass. his pants arent to big they are just so damn small he cant get em over his ass so it hangs out all the time... so I pulled him in the office and didnt know how to address the issue so I said "Just wanted to see if your ok with your current pant/shirt size,the uniform guys are coming in tomorrow and want to know if anyone needs new sizes or needs something replaced" he said "nope everything is good" ...now what do I say? well I said "look man..all the guys in the shop are sick of seein your ass..obviously your pants are to small,when the uniform folks come in tomorrow your gonna order bigger pants and Ill cover the $15 it cost to change sizes" boy did he get pissed! "well tell em to stop lookin at my ass!" :moon:

 

[Rlee]

I am a big a$$ mofo but I keep myself smelling good. Not bragging but I have always gotten compliments about my "aroma", if I had a nickel for every time a girl told me that I smelled good I could afford a few M&P AR's with ACOGS and a few long range guns. I take a shower before I go out period.

All jokes aside, there is no reason to smell of such a stinge. But no matter what I couldn't look at someone and tell them they smelled like goat ****. I see no way to break it to someone without hurting there feelings either. And why is it that stinky people wanna get close to you? If it came down to a breath thing I would offer that person some mints while in front of someone else and not offer them to anyone else. Or possibly pick up an extra thing of mints and tell them that you got them gave to you or something and that you don't like them.

As for the stinge, same could be done with deodorant or soap. Tell them you bought some soap and that it breaks you out and your wife can't use it because of it smelling like guy stuff. If it's a woman then do the opposite, offer them the soap and say that it's makes your wife itch.

If all of the above fails, gently tell them man/woman...You may not be able to help this and if thats the case then I can understand, but there is a smell that you are giving off that is really bothersome. If they ask what you mean Tell'em they stink

 

[bowhunter_1978]

Man, I could go on all day about this, but there is one guy I work with that smells like sweaty ass and moth balls. Not after working 12 hours, he smells that way after driving to work in the morning. We have went as far as buying deodorant, soap and shampoo, toothpaste and brush and some cheapo cologne and gave it to him and he still does not get the point. He consistently wears the same clothes 2-3 days in a row and says that he doesn't use bedsheets so I can only imagine what that house smells like. Like I said, I could go on all day with multiple examples but I gotta go to work now and smell that nasty bastard all day!!

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

At a former job... yes.

Another co-worker bought a bottle of aerosol "cinnimon potpourri" air freshener and put it on his desk. We used it to fumigate the room.

Same dude who'd go at least an entire work week "on the road" without brushing his teeth.

We don't think he wore deodorant of any kind, either.

He lives in Bargersville...if you smell him, tell him I said hi.

-J-

 

[dice dealer]

Try working in a casino ..
Now i don't get on people for gambling (hell it's my job )
But some of theese flea bag SOB's come in to the casino and stay at times 3 and 4 days NONSTOP.
I have seen people lterally **** on themselves to keep from going to the restroom because they know the next hand of cards or the next roll of the dice is gonna be the one that gets them back up ..

I once called a shift manager over to my table and ask them to fart so it would block the smell of a truck driver who had been there for the past 3 days nonstop lord only knows how long he had been on the road before that without a bath ..

The casino has actually pulled people off the floor and told them to go take a shower in one of the hotel rooms FREE of charge because they stunk so bad people around them were getting sick ..

 

[Bubbajms]

We've got a guy - he's really nice, but you can tell when he's spent the night with his ladyfriend and didn't get a chance to shower before work..

We also had a lady who needed to be introduced to Summer's Eve (ew!!) but she had some other issues that turned into her unemployment..

 

[redneckmedic]

 

[jennybird]

My daughter goes to school with a girl that has very bad BO. Apparently it's a hormone condition of some kind for which she is seeking medical treatment. My daughter came home PISSED one day cause not only were her classmates making fun of the girl, but so was the teacher.

That's my "I feel bad for the stinky person" story.

There was a kid my daughter knew for a while a few years ago. He was so funky you could almost see the fumes coming off of him. I remember picking him up to take them somewhere and when he got in the car I thought I was going to PUKE! The 3 gallons of Axe cologne he used could not cover the complete and unadulterated FUNK coming off that boy. I think I drove the entire way with my head stuck out the window.

Apparently, this same boy heard on the Tyra show () that if you're in a hurry and don't have time to wash your hair, put a little baby powder on the roots to absorb any oils from your scalp (to temporarily get rid of the greasy look). He was the laughing stock when he showed up to school the next day with GRAY hair from all the baby powder he'd used.

 

[Fletch]

It's been a long time since I worked with anyone who had bad body odor. I tend to have trouble with the "cloud of cologne" folks, like our new sales guy (aside: why is it always the sales guy?). It's nice cologne, it really is. It probably cost a pretty penny. But it really doesn't need to be applied with a hose. I'm hoping he realizes he can dial it back a bit soon.

 

[Fletch]

My daughter goes to school with a girl that has very bad BO. Apparently it's a hormone condition of some kind for which she is seeking medical treatment. My daughter came home PISSED one day cause not only were her classmates making fun of the girl, but so was the teacher.

Teachers really ought to be setting a better example.

 

[jennybird]

Teachers really ought to be setting a better example.

Yes, they should. Which is why I made a call to the school principal.

 

[printcraft]

It's been a long time since I worked with anyone who had bad body odor. I tend to have trouble with the "cloud of cologne" folks, like our new sales guy (aside: why is it always the sales guy?). It's nice cologne, it really is. It probably cost a pretty penny. But it really doesn't need to be applied with a hose. I'm hoping he realizes he can dial it back a bit soon.

I had a customer at one point that wore so much Stetson that his MONEY smelled like it. He was a cab driver, I don't know how his riders could stand it.

It would overcome the smell of ink in the shop for the rest of the day!

 

[hornadylnl]

I'm pretty sure the guy I work with has been told he stinks. He likes to come up close to me and look at what I'm doing at which point I back away.

I just don't get it. How the hell can people still stink? It's 2009 and they have a bazillion types of soap out there. I know there are a lot of poor people out there but I don't know of anyone who doesn't have running water.

When I was in the army, I would go weeks without a shower. After a few days, I wouldn't even smell myself or others anymore. After a couple of weeks, you start to smell yourself again. Then you know it's really nasty. We had a guy in basic who had nasty trench foot. You could smell his feet at least 10 foot away with his boots on. He would soak his feet in a mop bucket with bleach water and still couldn't kill the stench.