Better rude than puking,

[edible_hat]

I had an SC today with really bad body odour. How bad? So bad that he said "That's a nasty cough you have" when I started gagging. Also he turned around or something after leaving the store, and saw me spraying air freshener where he'd just been standing. He called to complain but didn't recognise my voice, so I got to hear about how rude it is to spray air freshener after a stinky person leaves the store. Next time I'll just spray him.

[Snowbird]

...He's aware of how stinky he is and won't remedy it? I hate to tell him but *that* is rude, not spraying after him.

[edible_hat]

Well he didn't say he knows how stinky he is, he said it's rude to spray air freshener when there are customers around because it implies that they smell bad. In this case there's no implication about it.

[Snowbird]

So instead of taking the hint, he called in to complain. Oh he's a real charmer!

[edible_hat]

I just hope he got caught in the rain that came through a few hours later.

[Rubystars]

Sometimes I used to have a bottle of vanilla cologne around so that if a really stinky customer came to my cash register, people that followed him wouldn't think it was me. I'd spray the cologne to combat the smell hanging in the air.

[fireheart]

I just hope he got caught in the rain that came through a few hours later.

ah yes,the lovely downpour that will most likely have drowned my little herb garden (or lack of it).

Seriously, I get the following smells at work every so often...

-Booze
-Body Odour
-Polypropylene left in the car for a few hours smell.
-Been left in the sun for a few hours smell.
-Burning rubber...

and I work in a supermarket!

[blas]

Most people just don't take the hint.

A lot of people are actually very proud of their "brand" and even their poor hygene.

This is why so many Funk Stain type people are still doing their thing, coming to work stinking up the whole place every single day.....

Ya know, we can't hurt their feelings. We can tell people like blas87 to quit using Bath and Body Works body mist because the cucumber melon gives people a headache, but the BBO that some of her coworkers have is completely acceptable.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ya know, we can't hurt their feelings. We can tell people like blas87 to quit using Bath and Body Works body mist because the cucumber melon gives people a headache, but the BBO that some of her coworkers have is completely acceptable.

And that's a problem I have with many of those "no scents in the workplace rules." They don't do anything about the stinky people.

Sure, it's because some people may have allergies to scented stuff, but guess what? If you let the reekers reek up the place without doing anything about it, people are going to bring those scented products in anyway and use them so they don't have to deal with the stink from the stinky person all day.

If you're going to ban perfume, cologne and body spray, then don't put up with excessive BO also, is what I say.

[blas]

I have a huge issue with the women on day shift who shower/bathe in cheap, nasty, foul old lady perfume. I mean, it's stronger than men's cologne. I can smell them before they even come in the room!

It just irritates me that I can't smell fresh and clean with a touch of body mist or light perfume, but they can bathe in the cheapest, smelliest, nastiest toilet water.....and the scrubs never ever get told to bathe, wash their clothes, change their clothes, or even to cover their mouths.

[McGoddess09]

Ya know, we can't hurt their feelings. We can tell people like blas87 to quit using Bath and Body Works body mist because the cucumber melon gives people a headache, but the BBO that some of her coworkers have is completely acceptable.

1) Bath and Body Works =<3

2) Cucumber Melon=<3

I agree with you Blas. I love smelling good. I put body spray on my pulse points and a few sprays on my clothes. If work told me to stop wearing my light scent, I would get on them about other people's hygiene.

[Food Lady]

And that's a problem I have with many of those "no scents in the workplace rules." They don't do anything about the stinky people. Sure, it's because some people may have allergies to scented stuff, but guess what? If you let the reekers reek up the place without doing anything about it, people are going to bring those scented products in anyway and use them so they don't have to deal with the stink from the stinky person all day. If you're going to ban perfume, cologne and body spray, then don't put up with excessive BO also, is what I say.

I believe in most places those complaints can be brought to HR's attention. I work with 2 stinky guys. I may have to talk to mngmt.

[Andara Bledin]

We have "hygeine" meetings about once a year, usually at the start of summer.

^-.-^

[blas]

What are these hygene meetings that you speak of?

I have a feeling if anyone were to suggest that where I work, they'd be escorted off the property in a heartbeat.

And just for the record, I still wear scent. So there

Edit to add: This is pretty gross, but just goes to show how far people will go when you let them be nasty. Everyone remember back in the day when most Ken dolls didn't have "real" hair, it was just shiny plastic molded to their heads? This one guy at work....his hair is pretty dark....and not only can you tell he rarely bathes because of how bad he smells, but his hair is so dirty and greasy that it's pretty much molded to his head like a Ken doll....it's so nasty.

[PepperElf]

i'd say to join the military where they can order you to shower
but ... the stinky girl on my first ship... it took them a year before they finally had a corpsman ordering her into the shower and to take the dirty clothes (that smelled just as bad as she did) off the end of her rack... and her smell... this wasn't just BO smell but... well maybe BO in her underpants, cos thats the body part that she smelled like all over

i recognized her in the shower stalls by her smell
the smell stayed behind when she left