Man who i worked with
Never bothered to air his clothes and walked quite a distance to work so stunk a bit. As his boss i had to take him to one side as there were complaints by other members of staff. I couldn't think of a better way to put it to him than by starting the conversation with "I'm sorry to say this D but you smell".
Sadly it didn't work so people used to leave him little gifts of soap and deoderant for him to find on his desk.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:17, 2 replies)

We had a smelly kid at school
that we used to (of course) rib mercilessly.

After a particularly savage session of taunting, he wigged out and gave someone a thumping. Things led to other things, and in the end it was patiently explained to us that his Mum had died when he was 3, a single mother of 5 children, and he and his 4 siblings were cared for by their widowed 70 year old Grandmother, who sometimes might not have been able to wash their clothes as often as she would have liked.

Furthermore, said Grandma had been fighting tooth and nail for the best part of 10 years with social services, who were watching like a hawk for the opportunity to take all the kids into care.

So, having had this explained to us, we did what any other bunch of 13 year olds would have done. Carried on abusing him.
(username failed moderation, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:24, closed)

Mad, I had to tell someone that once.....
....Stinky Kev (not joking). I used to smoke loads and always and had near to no sense of smell. I always wondered why everyone called him Stinky Kev, then after another attempt at giving up smoking I got some of the sense back and caught a full wiff of him when he was under my desk (he was an IT dude not a fellator). That summer was one of the hottest summers ever and it was decided that I, as one of the largest people in the office, as SK had a history of flyng off the handle, had to tell him. Weirdly, he took it really well. He smartened up his act, started washing his clothes which it turned out was the cause, and had a shower before coming to work instead of after. Cue mad fortune change for stinky Kev. He then turned into quite the ladies man.
( The only Dave is pushing things forward, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:26, closed)