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Originally posted by UWM A situation such as this needs to be handled through HR or a manager.

I totally disagree.
Why should a manager have to get involved over other members of thr working team?
It's a problem to the interior of the workplace - not the exterior (unless you guys meet face to face with clients).
I always do everything I can do on my own before I call a manager. I can't ever imagine myself calling HR or one of my bosses to come tell someone they stink.

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

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Originally posted by LazFX find the loud mouth black chick and plant the seed in her ear mate, it works all the time

...or just hose them down with whatever perfume you have at hand.
Technically it can be considered assault, so you may as well bean them with the bottle if they look to pursue that route and make it really worth your while.

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Originally posted by Ania_xox I totally disagree. Why should a manager have to get involved over other members of thr working team? It's a problem to the interior of the workplace - not the exterior (unless you guys meet face to face with clients). I always do everything I can do on my own before I call a manager. I can't ever imagine myself calling HR or one of my bosses to come tell someone they stink.

It's as much for protection as anything else. Say you approach a co-worker and tell them they stink. Now your co-worker takes offense to that and feels that you are discriminating against them because they carry different bathing practices than you do. And now they report you to HR for discrimination. FUCKING THING SUCKS!

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Originally posted by Ania_xox I totally disagree. Why should a manager have to get involved over other members of thr working team? It's a problem to the interior of the workplace - not the exterior (unless you guys meet face to face with clients). I always do everything I can do on my own before I call a manager. I can't ever imagine myself calling HR or one of my bosses to come tell someone they stink.

Looking at it from a conflict management perspective, I think it IS the manager/HR's responsibility to deal with such things.

Ohhhh my goood, youuu stiink! (Chinese accent)

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lol one of the kids in my class shit his pants today then looked at me like i was gonna clean him. Smelly mother******s haha.

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Strike a match next to him, see if he catches on fire.

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Originally posted by jennypie Looking at it from a conflict management perspective, I think it IS the manager/HR's responsibility to deal with such things.

It is.
Mostly because it's easier to just be up front about it, get it fixed quickly, rather than to try and separate Mr Stinky Pants from the choke hold of Mr Passive Cubicle Prole who has eventually pent up his anger for about... a month or two later and explodes in either a torrent of rage or if we're really lucky, gunfire.

This just in:

Do not use the word 'poop' when referencing his stink.

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Unless you're talking about his breath.

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I still can't wrap my head around calling Human Resources to tell someone they stink. Honestly. I need a more in-depth explanation or some sort of hypothetical situation here. Again, the problem in question has nothing to do with the business itself - and it's not like he is aggressively causing the problem. IMO, the work hierarchy only stands in professional aspects... hygiene is not one of them (unless you're talking about a field such as nursing, as The Pie mentioned earlier). Your boss has no more power when he/she tells this guy that he stinks than if YOU yourself told him so. I think calling a boss to talk about it to him is a cop-out. It bugs YOU, so YOU do something about it.

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

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