General Chat

I think its a good idea about waiting til no one else is there. I cant imagine how I would feel if someone had to tell me that and then I had to carry on working wondering if everyone else knew and was looking at me. Oh I do feel for you Paul and the lady. I guess the diet angle may be a good one to use. So you praise her first for keeping up the diet and then tackle the next problem.

do you know what jim, she has actually been on a diet for a while now and lost loads of weight. i wonder if that could be the problem? personally i would be mortfiied if someone told me something like that, but i would still want to know. i would hate to embarass her but its the comfort of others too. who would be a manager eh?

I dont agree it will embaress her more to have someone with you when you tell her. Do it on your own Paul and say it is between you two only, Ive been in management in that situation, please dont embarress her anymore by having someone with you. Dave

where abouts in hampshire are u paul?

Sorry Paul... you're on your own on this one. It is an awful dilema for you to be in, poor woman too. Elaines advice about having someone with you seems good to me. Good luck. Deanna X

Have another worker with you in the room, preferably a female. so you cant get into trouble for supposedly saying anything nasty. I would just start of by saying, hows everything going ? or a general question. Then say its been brought to your attention, and you hate to embarrass her but there have been complaints about her breath. Then suggest she sees her dentist to check she hasn't an underlying problem. Elaine x

had a girl in my last work like that was from zimbabwe and turned out that diet she was on had her glands working full speed, so we had to tell manager, that even though nothing against her, he had to have quiet word with her so she changed diet, she wasn't even aware of it at the time till one lady held her breath and passed out worse thing for the lady though was african girl was first aider

Oh Paul, what a rotten problem for you. I have to say that we had one chap where I worked. A lovely, very good looking guy- and you could actually tell if he was in the room, or in the canteen queue several people behind you, just from his breath. I guess you dont have any nurse or anything there? She probably has a real dental problem or something - I dont envy you doing this subtley. Hope someone can advise you, good luck.

we have a lady at work who is lovely apart from one thing - she has the worst halitosis in the world - EVER! now im not being cruel or anything and i'm sensitive to her needs etc.. but seriously it is so bad that she can make a whole office with 7 people in it smell. bad. several of the staff have said to me as the manager that i should approach her because it is so bad that when people have a one on one meeting it almost makes them retch, and im being serious! so - the question is, how the heck, if at all, should i tell her?? thanks, paul...