Please bathe daily, wear clean clothes each day, wash your hands after using the bathroom, use antiperspirant and brush & floss your teeth. That is all.
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There is no excuse for wearing a scented oil that can be smelled 50 ft away and the smell lingers more than an hour after you leave the area.
It is not cultural, it is an A-hole who does not care about coworkers coughing and eyes tearing up with the stinch.
We need rules on campus to stop this.
@jt At least you people finally figured out how to spell “hygiene.”
LoL try washing your upper lip. If that doesn’t work light a match.
I swear you MFs are the biggest bunch of pa--y-ballerinas I’ve ever seen.
@g6 a you work in a climate controlled office at a desk not doing manual labor. You shouldn’t stink if you follow the most basic hygiene practices.
@g6 That is where the bathing and antiperspirant come in genius.
@aw And when they stop wearing it you’ll complain about their body odor.
Bottom line: you can’t handle being around anyone who doesn’t look, smell, and think exactly like you do.
WFH fixes all this and more, but for some reason everyone over 50 (the ones doing all the complaining) have a raging hard-on for RTO.
@e1 There’s a term for this logical fallacy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out of the workforce. The sooner you leave the better IMO.
@g0 I guess he learned to spell at A&M?
If you don’t like how the place smells, clean it up. Or quit. IDGAF.
@fg ah the there is a typo argument. Always convincing. Taught in debate schools globally. Total mic drop moment!
@OP You didn’t even spell “hygiene” correctly.
Maybe what you’re smelling is your upper lip.
EM should really ban colognes, perfumes, and scented oils on campus.
@e7 and rinsing your hands with cold water but not using soap doesn’t do anything. Disgusting.
@e8 are you saying you have been an expat many times and that people outside of the Woodlands smell bad and in particular people outside the USA? Thanks for sharing your experience.
I never understood the cartoon peanuts how there is a cloud around the character Pigpen. Now I do.
Smokers stink. Bad breath and the smoke clings to them. Sharing an elevator with a smoker is hellish
La Quinta provides all hygiene products for free, including razors.
@OP guessing you have never left your cubicle and been to an overseas location?
There’s a whole world outside the woodlands
The % of non-hand washers is staggering. I hear you as you jet from the head after a 1 or a hearty deuce. Wash your hands!!
I'm gonna bring a big stinky fish to the office and microwave that S-B right in the middle of the floor 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ds that’s because the true idgaf GenXers have either been run off by EM or retired early. As I will soon. So you don’t see may of us around. Only ones left are sorry azz company tools that don’t “get it”. Hope they enjoy their dead inside “life”.
@ck Every GenX boss/colleague I’ve worked with has been an unapologetic bootlicker and has a massive hard-on for RTO.
It’s actually older millennials who’ve been holding the line on work/life balance.
@b9 you clearly don’t understand GenX, we have zero interest in being in the office and we don’t care if anyone else is there either. Don’t lump us in with boomers just because we are older than you, we are the original idgaf
I shared an office with a VC and she had a oil lamp that saturated the office. It was so bad that I reeked of the smell at home. Another ethnic employee would smell up the whole floor with their spicy food. I had to go out to eat because it was like eating in india. All people su-k and WFM is the best. I hate my fellow exxon employees and I am sure they hate me. So much for WEAM it should be IHEE I hate exxon employees.
@bf My take away is that the EM employees who post here (mostly WM over 50 based at EMHC judging by the topics and comments) will find any reason to slam people they don’t like or identify with.
And from what I’ve seen Canadians are every bit as bad if not worse. At least with Americans you know what you’re getting.
And don’t microwave fish!
Interesting. What I have learned from this thread is that some people think smelling bad is okay. Here in Canada we do have a policy against wearing scents and also smelling bad. And to the person who said we are sniffing people - your body odor or perfume as the case may be can be smelled from meters away. Just because your nose has stopped smelling it doesn’t mean ours has. You have nose blindness. It is well known and scientifically proven that people who stink don’t know they stink.
When Febreze was first launched, Procter & Gamble (P&G) marketed it as a solution to remove bad odors (like cigarette smoke or pet smells). However, the product initially failed because the people with the worst odors in their homes had become accustomed to them and didn't perceive a problem.
Here are the key insights behind this phenomenon: Nose-Blindness: People quickly become accustomed to the smell of their own homes, pets, or smoking habits, making them oblivious to odors that outsiders immediately notice.
WFH fixes almost all of the complaints on this thread, including the OP. Problem is, the boomer/GenX types who are still clinging to 20th century work structures dragged everyone back.
You wanted everyone in the office, you got it. STFU and cope with it.
And no, being in the office does nothing to save you from being fired, restructured, or outsourced. If your only value is showing up to a cubicle you’re probably worthless to begin with.
And please stop wearing scented oils that can be smelled 50 ft before you walk into view. Can be smelled outside the glass breakout room even when you have the door closed.
That smell lingers for more than an hour after you leave. There is no possible reason on earth for you to wear that atrocious scent.
Maybe you have built up your immunity to the smell and are playing a joke on everyone else in the building.
We need rules on campus about wearing cologne, perfumes, and scented oils.
No. If I have to come in office and be miserable, I'm dragging some of you with me. Take it up with senior "leadership" if you have that much of an issue.
@a3 I had the opposite impression. It seemed in my dealings with oil companies that there was considerable bias towards well-groomed middle-aged white dudes, preferably from Aggieland.
I guess my eyes were deceiving me.
@OP I hope this is intended for the old geezers who have chained themselves to their desks because “they like what they do” and totally aren’t planning to work until they die because they need the money and the healthcare.
If it’s a swipe at people from South Asia, I personally haven’t had any issues, probably because I don’t go around sniffing people like you apparently do.
I don’t understand why there are so many clogged toilets in E2. I swear it’s the same person over and over again. Just flushed periodically if you are wiping that much, ge-z.
@OP oh you don't know — if you take care of yourself you’re labeled as ‘not a hard worker.’ This is what I really believe about XOM: if you want to be ranked high you should be smelly and half‑dead from exhaustion, like the more you neglect your basic hygiene, the more they think you’re ‘committed.’ And the best part? You’re also making it harder for your colleagues to work, because apparently the whole game is ‘compete to win,’ even if it means turning the office into a survival show.