OOP's I accidentally deleted the first posting of this.
Do you or have you ever had to work closely with anyone who is just not keeping up on their personal hygiene as you would like? Bad breath and body odor being the most common I would think. What is the best why of dealing with these hygiene offenders in the work place?
Yep! Been there. A colleague had serious body odour, every day. He changed his clothes daily but still smelt. As colleagues we tried to ignore it -he seemed to be aware of it because we could tell he had also used aftershave/deoderants, but to no avail. In the end the manager had to talk to him about it because the customers were beginning to make written complaints about his smell. It turned out he had some kind of medical problem which thankfully is now sorted. I think you have to be careful because although you automatically think "bad hygiene" sometimes there is an underlying medical reason. That's my experience anyway!
i worked with this one guy who had severe gum disease. it was so bad if he got near you at all, it was unbearable. i just kept any meetings i had with him as brief as possible, handling a lot of things in email first. one of the guys in the other section would leave breath mints in his mail slot, which he never used, apparently. finally one day he announced that he was taking a leave of absence to have some dental work done and when he came back, no more odor. he also got a girlfriend!
I know that medical reasons can cause much of these things but some are just poor hygiene. I work with one guy that will go to the gym during lunch and appearantly not shower before returning to work..nasty smelling by 1:30-2:00. Makes for a not so pleasant afternoon. On the same note another co-worker ( who is asian ) goes out to lunch and comes back smelling like whatever the hell he ate..it's so strong!! Things like this make it hard to work around these people and I don't want to come right out and say "Hey you really stink"..lol
I have tried passing around mints or gum with the one guy but it doesn't help, he still has horrid breath..
by Yasin M 14 years ago
I am a Halitosis patient . which tooth paste i can use to reduce my bad breath. please help me
by drsohel 11 years ago
Bacterias are the culprit that work against good oral hygiene. Most of the bacterias resides over tongue, some at the periodontal pocket and very little on the teeth. For this, tongue scrapping is the most important part of maintaining a good oral hygiene. But unfortunately, it's the most forgotten...
by huck tooey 15 years ago
Who should tell a co-worker about bad hygene,; bad breath, body ordor etc.?.You know the one, breath so bad it curls paint, body odor yon can smell before they`re in the room!!!
by sleuth48 14 years ago
I accidentally opened my husband's FB page and saw the thread where he had been chatting with this girl from HS about some pic that was recently posted. It was innocent enough.....except for one part where she's fishing for a compliment and he tells her she "looks great" in the pic. Later...
by Deninson Mota 10 years ago
How do you deal with a co-worker who doesn't like you?This is a major issue. Your work place should be a place of productivity and friendship. But, is not always like that. There are a lot of people jealous of you, who envy your work, and there are many people willing to give you such a hard time.
by Marlena Oechsner 13 years ago
"I'm very punctual." That was my response when a woman asked me why I am a good worker during a phone interview. "Okay," she responded, "but what would your current supervisor have to say about you?" Jeez, I thought. There is nothing positive he could say, especially...
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |