Thank heaven for Rude Arty Northerners
I had a similar experience with one guy we worked with. When he left our employ, we removed a full binbag of paper and a further full binbag of empty sandwich wrappers and cans from his desk.

Luckily, we found a way to avoid his worst excesses - hire a Rude Arty Northerner as a designer. On his first day, Rude Arty Northerner, clad in a purple silk shirt and "Natural Born Killers" orange sunglasses, goes into our room, looks at Smelly Programmer and says "Jesus, you stink. When did you last take a shower?"

The next day, said Smelly Programmer turned up with clean hair and clothes, and occasional bouts of Northern Rudeness warned him if standards were slipping. This marked the start of a permanent and positive change in his demeanour, at least when at work.

Pity his code was more like his desk...
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 14:00, Reply)