A temp in my office wreaks of cat piss. Everyone's bitching, but no one wants to say anything to him. It's been going on all week.

I've already been told not to be direct. WTF?

Suggestions please?

And Andy, this does not equate to a first strike in a stink war!

Oh, PC as in Political Correctness, not personal computer.

You can't handle it any other way than to be direct if you want to keep the temp and the only problem is body odor. If there's a problem with the work also, you should ask the agency for a replacement.

The temp has been here longer than me - over four years. Replacement option is out.

He must throw his jacket on a couch where his cat pisses on it. It really does stink and I've been warned by two of the biggest complainers not to go direct.

I must note that I sit the closest to him and the women who are bitching the loudest sit another 10 - 20 feet away.

You should conceal a bottle of febreeze and walk by and give it a couple of shots...and few more on the way back to your work space.

We had a few people that smelled pretty "ripe" where I used to work. I would just walk behind them and give them a few shots of deodarant spary or febreeze.

maybe that Temp doesn't have a washer/dryer close by and cannot afford right off hand to get to the cleaners? (I am assuming this is on his/her cloths?)

I wreak of Cigar and Cigerette smoke throughout the day it gets stronger... I could never smell it but my kids, previous co-workers etc could always smell it...

if this person has a couple of cats in their house/apartment and are not very clean and tidy.. they also would not be able to smell this as well? someone who has been friendly and talking with this person should be the one to strike up the conversation on the issue... find out a little background on the person before firing away.. they may be going through a tough time right now? and could use a helping hand?

Hog

Type a note, so no one would know who did it, sneak it onto his desk when no one is looking...Note: "You smell like cat piss.....fix it"

All very good responses.

I think I would start with the fabreeze method.

I was thinking the temp was from an agency. If the person is only temp from another department then you really do have a situation.

Ram, has to go with 'hog' on this one.

I think it might be quit obvious if you are spraying and this is going to be a temporary fix to the problem, need a long term solution IMHO.

Start rubbing dog sh#t on your clothes, then let THEM bring it up.

Leave a bottle of Pet Stench Remover of their desk from PetSmart . . .

He now officially knows! Another coworker was taken out via stretcher with an asma / allergy attack. The guy went home crying that he caused this guy to pass out.

This has escalated well above nuisance level. It's now life threatening.

WOW!!

you are kidding right?

a guy is crying?

No. The guy that dropped has asma. He stood up from his desk and then dropped like a rock. He regained consciousness by the time the ambulance came. But he's going for a ride anyway.

Yes, the temp, a 43 year old man, began to cry and left. (He is the spitting image of the comic book guy from the Simpsons, in size, appearrance and right down to the action figures & comics he sells on ebay)

I couldn't make this stuff up. My imagination isn't this good.

JR, run , run, as fast as you can ! ! ! LOL

You are working in a 'soap opera' setting . LMAO

Damn, talk about an exciting day at work. And the whole time your typing away to us. LOL

There is an deafening silence in the office. It's actually very scary when the hens shut up and there's no background noise.

Soap opera without the sex, it sounds about right. You have to listen to the girl across the cube from me. Nothing is ever her fault and she gets into the stupidest situations and arguments with people.

Yeah, I feel sorry for everyone in this situation. We had a guy at work who had the most awful B.O. and I sat him down and told him straight out that he had B.O. It wasn't exactly easy but he freakin' stunk. The way I handled it was to tell him that everyone has a natural oder and some are just stronger than others, and in and office situation people work very closely and that is why some men use after shave or cologne. I gave him 20 bucks and said go buy some cologne and use it s p a r i n g l y. He thanked me, because he never knew, went and got some cheap cologne. EVERYONE was thankful and he was too, even though he smelled like Hi Karate.

the Kuwaiti Arabs don't bathe at least maybe once every couple of weeks.. they use cologne to cover-up...

I had to do a bit of Tower work, working side by side with a couple of them for a couple days.. I would have rather been cleaning ****ters then be in the same room with these folks... the tower is manned 24/7 and there is a mattrice on the floor over in the corner where they would take naps... I went into a 7-11 store in chicago a few years back and that very same smell hit me in the face it was owned by a couple of India indians... it's a sad situation for sure... but a smell something like that never leaves your memory system...

My Aunt is so old timer her and my Uncle only spunge bathed from their sink.. Family Reunions were something else!

Hog