I told an intern who works for me to stop bathing in Ralph Lauren cologne on Tuesday... If he wants to keep his job.
I’m not paying him $10/hour to make me sneeze and annoy me.
Back years ago, before all the anti-smoker bans and most of the anti-smoker nonsense, I used to work with a guy that was just rank. No other word can describe the guy. We worked at a radio station and every studio had a can of Lysol in it.
The Lysol was just for general use because of the mikes -— but anyone who went into a studio after this guy would spray the entire studio down because it stunk so bad. He was also one of the few non-smokers on the staff and the very first anti-smoker I ever encountered. He never said a word about the smokers and smoking in the AM or FM studios, or the production or interview studios, but constantly whined abut me smoking in the newsroom.
He never took the hints, and not very subtle ones, that his odor was offensive to the rest of us. That ended when he brought and “air cleaner” into the newsroom so he could tolerate the cigarette odor. I asked him where he got the contraption so we could buy them for each of the studios to get rid of his offensive odors. Nope, not subtle at all on my part.
He still hadn’t cleaned up his act by the time I left, but no one had to put up with his incessent whining about smokers after that day.