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Dealing with co-workers that do not shower [duplicate]
I currently sit in a cubical beside someone who does not seem to understand the merits of shower on a regular basis. This is not affecting my job per se, but it is sometimes distracting to have the ...
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How to deal with colleagues who smoke and carry a bad breath to meeting rooms? [duplicate]
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How should I approach a co-worker on matters of personal hygiene?
I spend 3 hours of my time on an average everyday in meeting rooms. The rooms are generally very small and ...
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How to handle a coworker's breath odor? [duplicate]
I work in an office of 6 or 7 people a day. I absolutely like everyone and it is a really nice place (seriously). I want to stay here a long time and continue working with the same people. I have a ...
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How to handle strong bathroom smell [duplicate]
I have a co-worker that seems to have trouble making it to the restroom in time. I'm not 100% certain that he/she is straight up crapping themselves, but whatever it is produces a very strong smell of ...
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The mouth of my co-worker stinks so strongly, that I can't stay 2m from him [duplicate]
...but we are talking a lot, and he is mostly much much closer.
I don't know what to do. Now he has left my desk around 10 minutes ago, but I still can feel the odor of his mouth.
I don't have any ...
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How to deal with a colleague who has very bad hygiene? [duplicate]
I took up a new job as software engineer where I share a generous room with another person.
We interact with each other respectfully and professionally and he is doing great work as far as I am ...
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How to approach co-workers who do not wash their hands? [duplicate]
We have all seen it, probably too many times: someone gets out of the toilet booth/cubicle and rushing outside, never even glancing towards the sink where he/she are expected to wash their hands like ...
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Dealing with a co-worker with a farting problem [duplicate]
I have a co-worker who stands behind me at work, our desks face away from each other with a few feet between.
For the last month I have heard audible farts at least once per day, and several people ...
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How to deal with sitting next to an alcoholic colleague [duplicate]
I have a work colleague I sit next to whom I suspect to be an alcoholic. Certainly other colleagues have expressed this opinion. It used to be that occasionally he would come in smelling of stale beer ...
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How should I deal with co-workers lack of hygiene at work? [duplicate]
I work in a small office. There are no screens to separate work spaces and I can't help but notice when my co-worker picks his nose or wipes his nose with his hand when he has a cold. He then goes on ...
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How should I address disruptive office behaviors diplomatically? [duplicate]
I recently started a new job and share an office with a colleague who has some disruptive habits. While he is a friendly and helpful individual, there are two specific behaviors that are affecting my ...
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My group hired a new person who is disgusting and disruptive [duplicate]
My group hired a new fella. Usually I'm involved in the hiring process but not in this case. We made a poor choice and hired someone who is noisy and disruptive via various bodily sounds. Snorting, ...
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How do I tell a coworker about her stinky body odor? [duplicate]
One of my coworkers wears sleeveless shirts very often and it is obvious she is not wearing deodorant. Often her armpits emit a onion odor. How can I tell her it smells bad? Should I tell her? Or ...
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How to deal with workplace discrimination as a contractor? [duplicate]
I work at a pharmaceutical company as a contractor and recently we had someone from another country work as a contractor here. One day I was approached by someone from the client company saying that ...
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What to do about the office farter? [duplicate]
There is an older man who comes in a couple days a week and he farts really loud without excusing himself. How do I tell him he is being impolite in a nice way?
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How to deal with colleague with distractingly bad body odor? [duplicate]
Question is pretty self explanatory. I have a colleague with whom I work closely with and enjoy the company of, however he has recently started exercising and comes to the office smelling quite poorly....
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How to deal with my collegue with bad smell? [duplicate]
A new employee joined us before a week and was seated beside me,but I cannot able to bear with him as he smells fishy everyday right from the start and gets worse at end of the day.
Now how can I ...
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How to tell someone their smoking is an issue [duplicate]
We have a new team lead. He smokes several times a day. We have seperate smoking areas. He goes there and smokes. So far so good but unlike the other people who smoke, he gives a very bad smell. I get ...
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Colleague is very nice, smart and helpful but stinks. Told him twice but not getting the message [duplicate]
I joined work about a month ago. My colleague/mentor smells because I don't think he ever showers. He sits next to me and he's the typical nerdy guy. Sometimes the smell is so bad it makes me sick. I ...
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Issue with my boss and smell coming from toilet
I work in a small company with a small office, we are just 10 employees and a boss. Recently two new workmates have been hired and we had to change the office distribution and now my workplace is ...
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Is it Bad Form to use an Ecigarette or Vaporizor in the office?
I am a software developer and some of my co-workers took up e-cigarettes (vaping) in the office to replace their cigarette habits. I did the same thing after getting manager approval. I asked my co-...
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How to deal with an colleague with an extremely strong smell?
I share an office with someone who smells extremely bad, maybe the worst I have ever known anyone to smell in my life (I'm not exaggerating, it smells like they have some item of clothing which has ...
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How can I tell an employee to improve on his body-hygiene?
I have a new employee that joined my team, he is smart and very polite, but he smells very bad due to his transpiration or his general body odor.
Sometimes when he comes in after having a shower, he ...
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How should I approach my manager on matters of personal hygiene?
I have joined my first job 6 months ago as a software developer at a big company. I am the youngest person in my team of 6. I like my team very much as all of the members are very cool and my manager ...
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Smelly food: is there any more I can do? [duplicate]
One of my colleagues changed her diet recently to a vegetarian one (which I'm 100% supportive of, being vegetarian myself) but with her just changing she's gone for the obvious foods for protein ...
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I strongly notice my colleagues odour, but my other colleague doesn't. Should I still escalate this or keep quiet?
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We are 3 people in a small room at our office. Me, Bob and Charles. I can smell Bob, but Charles said he didn't notice anything. Should I still report this to our manager/HR and let him handle ...
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