I need to get this off my chest because it’s eating me up. I have a colleague I work with who is a nice harmless guy but he smells, abysmally.

He’s a larger young man and he always has huge chunks of dandruff in his hair. He shits every day at work (in the one work toilet we all share) and leaves huge skid marks at the bottom. I could accept all of that, even move past all of it if he didn’t smell the way he did.

He doesn’t have the typical bad smell of sweat or body odour. He smells like he’s shit himself all the time. It gets progressively worse from the morning towards the afternoon and working with him for 9 hours, pregnant and smelling him in HD makes me sick. I’ve vomited multiple times because of his smell and have even gone home for lunch so my food can digest peacefully.

He smells like a combination of a damp cloth, moth balls and a sour fart in a bottle. When he’s sitting in the office for 5 minutes (the door is closed) and you go in there it’s like opening an oven door and cutting an onion simultaneously.

My tolerance is wearing extremely thin and although I stay clear of him, the store is small and his smell has a large radius that covers every corner. When he comes near me I literally heave. I am not the only one who has noticed but I don’t want to embarrass him. As I’m pregnant I feel like I can smell him a lot more strongly than my colleagues. My manager doesn’t want to either but I’m 👌🏽 close to having a go at the poor guy if he doesn’t get his shit together, literally.

We have hinted as politely as possible and tried to suggest showering in the morning but there is nothing left. What on earth do I do because me and my poor baby are tired of inhaling what is definitely a mass built up of dirt and the remnants of his booty.