Smelly others in office

**Peoplesoft bloke** · 4 February 2008, 17:32

That must've been the bloke who sat next to me on the train today. I used to work with a woman who used to disappear at regular intervals and come back reeking of the most overpowering body spray in the universe - it used to make my nose hurt.

**NotAllThere** · 4 February 2008, 17:33

Take up smoking at his desk.

**DS23** · 4 February 2008, 17:35

are they musical? sorry, i mean - can you hear them?

**DS23** · 4 February 2008, 17:36

i'd have a word with his boss. do it through the er... proper channels.

**PAH** · 4 February 2008, 17:38

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Take up smoking at his desk.

Which equates to lighting a match near him next time and see if he makes it into space faster than Virgin Galactic.

For added effect, empty a can of hair spray in his direction just prior to ignition.

**Gonzo** · 4 February 2008, 17:42

I would recommend taking up smoking. I am a heavy smoker and therefore cannot smell or taste anything.

The last time I gave up, after a couple of weeks I found the stench of other people when I took the tube in the morning to be truly disgusting.

So I had to start smoking again.

**PAH** · 4 February 2008, 17:47

Another cure for the sense of smell is to chat up some bit of skirt in a nightclub and wait to get atwatted by her boyfriend and his 4 friends.

Worked for me when I was 18. I could be swimming in piss and not smell a thing (handy for later in life). Brut is still fashionable isn't it?

**PAH** · 4 February 2008, 17:49

Originally posted by Gonzo View Post

I would recommend taking up smoking. I am a heavy smoker and therefore cannot smell or taste anything.

The last time I gave up, after a couple of weeks I found the stench of other people when I took the tube in the morning to be truly disgusting.

So I had to start smoking again.

There are similar complaints about pubs and clubs now there's the smoking ban. Apparently you can smell the loos, which are typically overflowing on a saturday night, and the sweat on the dancefloor.

**hyperD** · 4 February 2008, 18:00

You could leave a packet of charcoal biscuits on his desk with a postIT saying "They work for my dog, why don't you try them?".

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-charcoal-biscuits.htm

Leave him alone	7.14%	2 votes
Bring it up at the point of impact (in front of everyone else in office)	28.57%	8 votes
Have a word in private	7.14%	2 votes
Send him an email (obviously non-anonymous)	0.00%	0 votes
Leave an anonymous post-it on his monitor	21.43%	6 votes
Hope that the dirty fker reads this site and gets the message	3.57%	1 vote
I am AndyW	32.14%	9 votes

Smelly others in office