Personal HygieneThere comes a point at which your hygiene becomes less your problem and more everyone else's:
My old school nurse never seemed to wash - instead she wrapped herself in crepe bandages from the first aid kits. The smell was beyond pungent. If you got ill at school, it was better to suffer than try and explain symptoms whilst only breathing out.
When she was eventually 'let go',they had to strip the wallpaper in her office to get rid of the lingering odour.
How scuzzy have you got? Or, failing that, how bad have people you know got?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 12:40)
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EngineersUsed to work in an office full of engineers. Although all fitted the stereotype of tweed jackets with leather patchwork on the elbow, 2 stood out as having hygiene problems.
The first always wore the same jumper. He called it his work jumper and never ever took it home. He'd put it on in the morning when arriving at work and take it off before leaving the office. He would wear it whatever the weather and it stunk to high heaven. You could smell him coming down the corridor before seeing him. Quite appropriately his surname was Mould.
The second guy was just a plain old disgusting stinker. Stunk of BO like he never washed, hair was always greasy and just an air of dirtiness about him. He also had a massive lump the size of an orange on his head which occasionally would seep pus out on to his already manky hair. The guy was a scout leader and was later sent down for 6 months for having a shit-load of child (young boy) porn on his personal computer (a lot of it was categorised as the worst kind of porn).
They smelt so bad that whenever I had to do work for either of them, I insisted that they never came in my office. I went to their desks and took their laptop away with me. On the off chance that they ever came into the IT room, we had a bottle of deodourant handy to de-foul the air after they left.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2007, 12:24, Reply)
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