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This is the USA and that will backfire right in your face, then the complainers will be accused of harassment. Trust me i know firsthand on this.

We had a woman that had more dogs, cats, birds, and farm animals than you could shake a stick at, the dogs (21) and cats(?) lived right in the singlewide trailer with her and her husband. You talk about "wetdog" at 6:30 first thing in the morning, no one would even sit on her side of the room and it was a big room for morning meetings, it would linger and stay strong on her for an entire 12 hour shift. Well we all complained...the managers didn't know how or want to approach the problem, so we went to HR and the Plant Nurse, well she cleaned up for about 2 days and that was it, another complaint made, told to stop picking on her and if we wanted something done to form our own little committee to confront her...then came her tears and boo hooing to HR and we were then told in no uncertain terms to leave her alone or chance being written up.

In hinkeydinks case if she's a foreigner he doomed...she has 2 minority status' on her side...female and foreign. Pray for him
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EDIT: a to add to the above, and this is no lie...you could smell her truck in the parking lot from like 50 feet away. I {censored} you not.



Damn, Fran... That's f-ed up! I can't believe they wouldn't go to bat for you! I mean, that's their job. And when I say 'that's their job', I mean, like, that's their entire job and their entire purpose for being! I'm not sure about HR laws state-to-state, but I'm pretty sure you and your colleagues can actually bring a suit against your company for that. If there is something that is preventing a majority of people (and it sure sounds like you had a definite majority on your side) from doing their jobs properly or is leaving you in an inhospitable working environment, then HR by law has to take action until the matter is resolved. At my old company (in Florida) I know a person was actually fired due to their scent and the rampant complaints about it. Admittedly, she wasn't a minority, and it wasn't my department so I don't know the specifics, but I've had HR training (in Canada) and I know that if the issue is not resolved that it must still be considered open until it is.

Good luck, misterhinkydink! I don't know what else to suggest short of buying a big can of aerosol deoderant and anonymously leaving it at her desk when she's in the bathroom or something...

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This is the USA and that will backfire right in your face, then the complainers will be accused of harassment. Trust me i know firsthand on this.

We had a woman that had more dogs, cats, birds, and farm animals than you could shake a stick at, the dogs (21) and cats(?) lived right in the singlewide trailer with her and her husband. You talk about "wetdog" at 6:30 first thing in the morning, no one would even sit on her side of the room and it was a big room for morning meetings, it would linger and stay strong on her for an entire 12 hour shift. Well we all complained...the managers didn't know how or want to approach the problem, so we went to HR and the Plant Nurse, well she cleaned up for about 2 days and that was it, another complaint made, told to stop picking on her and if we wanted something done to form our own little committee to confront her...then came her tears and boo hooing to HR and we were then told in no uncertain terms to leave her alone or chance being written up.

In hinkeydinks case if she's a foreigner he doomed...she has 2 minority status' on her side...female and foreign. Pray for him
:D

EDIT: a to add to the above, and this is no lie...you could smell her truck in the parking lot from like 50 feet away. I {censored} you not.



In my last job at KAFB there were five of us crammed into one small room. There was this older lady who also smelled so guess where the new guy had to sit? The others were on the other side of the room. I don't know if it was her snatch, ass or her feet but it smelled rotten. Sometimes it was so bad I held my hand over my nose (also hoping she'd get the hint). After I did what they hired me for they offered me a real job but I had to get the hell out of there for a number of reasons besides that one. Now, the current gig has gone far longer than it was suppose to. Since I'm not an employee I'll move on if it gets unbearable. It's not the first and won't be the last. I'm really just venting but I can deal with it.

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The suggestion that you go to HR? Forget it, if there's one thing that you need to know about working a corporate job, it's that you need to minimize your contact with HR people as much as possible. Nothing pisses off an HR Specialist more than someone doing something that makes them have to {censored}ing work, and you'd be surprised how much power those stupid bitches have over your job. So going to them with any type of formal complaint is likely to cause all kinds of problems, because you'll be adding to someone's workload by at least 3 documents and 10 emails, and that's WAY out of line.
I hate HR departments, I've never dealt with one that did the job their supposed to, and I used to call 5 or 6 of them a DAY.

Just tell the bitch she's {censored}ing rank and deal with your boss, at least he'll return your emails and phone calls.
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The suggestion that you go to HR? Forget it, if there's one thing that you need to know about working a corporate job, it's that you need to minimize your contact with HR people as much as possible. Nothing pisses off an HR Specialist more than someone doing something that makes them have to {censored}ing work, and you'd be surprised how much power those stupid bitches have over your job. So going to them with any type of formal complaint is likely to cause all kinds of problems, because you'll be adding to someone's workload by at least 3 documents and 10 emails, and that's WAY out of line.

I hate HR departments, I've never dealt with one that did the job their supposed to, and I used to call 5 or 6 of them a DAY.


Just tell the bitch she's {censored}ing rank and deal with your boss, at least he'll return your emails and phone calls.

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That sucks that you've had so many bad experiences with HR, but if he goes with a lot of other people they'll have a hard time ignoring it, don'cha think? And what are they going to do? Fire the five people that her stench bothers, or get rid of the one whose smell is causing the problem. If there was only one person complaining I wouldn't even argue with you because you've obviously had some experiences, but don't you think it's worth a shot if he's got a whole team behind him?

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That sucks that you've had so many bad experiences with HR, but if he goes with a lot of other people they'll have a hard time ignoring it, don'cha think? And what are they going to do? Fire the five people that her stench bothers, or get rid of the one whose smell is causing the problem. If there was only one person complaining I wouldn't even argue with you because you've obviously had some experiences, but don't you think it's worth a shot if he's got a whole team behind him?

 

 

No. It has nothing to do with clout.

Whenever someone is hired into an HR job, they're told specifically that there is a standard that they need to hold down. Meaning, if someone comes into the HR department and proves to be a shining star of productivity and employee satisfaction, they are fired or given lateral transfers to other departments.

The problem is, HR managers don't actually DO anything. So if they have one or more underlings that actually work, it makes them look bad. So they hire the most underqualified, moronic, and openly hostile people they can find, because they know that the bar will never start to inch up.

What a company is left with is a team of professionals that don't answer emails, or answer them with {censored}ty one-liner responses, never check their voice mails, never return phone messages, and are always in "meetings" when you call the front desk hoping for the hippie hookup on a transfer.

This is universal. If you've had a better experience with an HR department, it must be because Canadian HR Generalists smoke crack instead of 9 packs of cigarettes a day.

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You know, I've got an Indian neighbour, and they think our food stinks just as bad...

 

 

True, but one main difference: they live in Canada. What is normal and accepted in India is not the same as what is normal and accepted in America Junior. I had the same problem in my first apartment, where I happened to be caretaker. We had some east Africans that cooked the nastiest smelling stuff in their apartment all the freaking time. It stunk so bad my eyes watered just going in the hallway. It sucked, because they lived on the floor where the apartment building's only laundry facilities were. We had residents complain because the funk was so bad. Long story short, we didn't let them renew their lease. Constantly stinking up the place with foul odors is unacceptable, period.

 

The same goes for the workplace. If someone's odor is so bad as to be offensive to his/her coworkers, it needs to be remedied. None of the multiculturalism BS should get in the way. If you stink, you stink. Get it fixed or go work somewhere else.

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