Actually - I've had to tell a number of girls - be honest and to the point. Works every time.

"Yo Bitch, your coochie smells like a dead fuckin cat"

Never had to smell the stinky bitches again..... But one of them took my house in the divorce.:Oh crap

Just tell em,hey dude,time for a shower

"I mean no offense, but you reek of fish"

"ok hun, i smell tuna pizza - WHY THE FUCK CUDNT YA WAIT AND ATE IT WITHOUT ME?"

Elaborate... everyone smells. Is it a stink? What is the source?

In the Army, we'd give them a GI shower with about 6 men holding them down and cleaning them with scrub brushes. It only takes once.......

There are some people who are naturally alergic to types of antiperspirant and deodorant, this could be the issue. If you really don't want to offend them, have someone their close to bring it up, or bring them into your office and just lay it on them.

"Listen, I don't want to offend you but we've had some complaints over the last week about a strange odor coming from your work space. If there's something in there that is causing it please deal with is appropriately or we'll have to get a cleaning crew in there to do it" etc etc.

And if the person asks you if you can smell it just say no, your nose is stuffed up.

I had a girl come up to me today that had just eaten some awful smelling mexican food, I started laughing at her and asked if she wanted any gum. She took it and we were both better off.

Drink some cheap beer, then let a juicy super smelly fart near them. If they complain just tell them you was trying to clear the air up a little bit.

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Talk about deodorants. Talk about things you have heard, brands etc...

"i heard aluminum in deodorant can cause health issues" "i tried using a natural deodorant but it does not work as good" "what brand do you recommend?" "what are you using now?"

thanks to everyone. there are definitely some unique ideas here how we going to tell her... i think our executive assistant will break her the news

Put out a company memo about personal hygiene.

Don't say anything but buy one of those auto delivery room fresheners (set for every 10 minutes) and hook it up on top of their monitor pointed right at them - that should just about do the trick but if they don't get the hint, at least the room will be easier to be in with them there :)


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Every time I am in a plane and it stinks, I take out a small perfume vaporizer and spray around me, a few times people actually clapped :thumbsup

I can only imagine the hours of conversation spent on this topic in that office.

That's the best way IMO.

send her a link to this thread

hey wait. there is only one woman that works for you that posts on gfy? is it her? she seems to pretty to smell.

When I was 19 I was "nominated" by the company president to have to tell an employee there was a BO issue. I was young and intimidated, so the best thing I could come up with was printing out the page in the employee handbook that mentioned hygene and highlighting the parts I felt applied to her. I ended up for the most part just handing her the paper to read herself.

It didn't go over well. Her boyfriend, who also worked there, screamed at me for hurting her feelings and said she couldn't bathe regularly because she had a heart condition (WTF?!). The problem was short lived though as they got in a fist fight less than a week later.

If you have HR that's the person who needs to deliver the news, if not the best way to deal with it is to just bite the bullet and have the conversation in the most gentle and polite way possible. If an employee has a BO problem it's unfair to your other employees to let it go and not address it.

No, not her .. she smells like an angel everyday. And plus, shes the queen of GFY, i would never post anything here about her :)

good thing I don't smoke :pimp

i think it is time for a female to female chat.

Stick a finger in a pickle jar, then hold the finger under their nose and go: "This is you."
Done.
Next issue?

its not who you think it is .. so lets leave her alone on this ...

i was just looking for advice on how we can break the news so lets not point finger on anyone in this office