to send a stinking (no pun intended) email round at work...

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I get to work quite early - some days 8.20 and start at 9. Not many people in at this time - about 2/3. Nearly every morning the hallway stinks from someone going to the loo and it wafts through the stairwell and lingers. It's disgusting. They don't spray the provided air freshener, nor open a window.

It's disgusting and yet so easy to resolve. I know we all have bodily functions. But a bit of common sense/decency can be applied surely?

I have holed myself upstairs in my well sealed office away from the smell after going bonkers with the air freshener and opening a window. All it took for 30 seconds max. Another colleague has also made comments similar to me about the smell.

If IANBU, how do you politely, comically perhaps, word said email?

I too want to know more about the shit smearers. Did they go in together? Mens or Ladies?

Imagine he wall murals at Mr and Mrs Shitsmearer house!

Imagine shaking hands with the dirty bastards!

I am astonished. I've worked at various places over the years, and have never encountered such problems.

I might start a new thread "why do people in England leave messy toilets..." though I suspect it happens in other countries too.

Of course, in North America we are obsessed with personal hygiene.

I'd just like to thank the many contributors to this thread for making me laugh so hard I nearly fell off my chair

Mr and Mrs shitsmearer are probably into scat spreading and think it's normal practice

Mr & Mrs SM went into the gents and the ladies respectively to do their dirty business. Maybe it was an ongoing competition between them. We'll never know.

It was quite a long time ago. Every few years I bring it up to DH and ask him a load of questions just like you've all posted. He can't answer them either sadly.

There was also the person who was caught spying on the ladies... It all goes on at DH's work.

OP I think #3 is a pretty safe bet. Not sure how, or if you'd even want to, catch him at it though.

DManager has sent this email....

Your attention is drawn to Item 7 of the Shared Area Notice in the toilet areas –

Air freshener used where necessary.

I have received several complaints from staff regarding this item not being applied.

Please ensure it is actioned when necessary.

Love the corporate speak...! "Actioned" when necessary...! LMAO.

Should've said "please leverage the available resources when using the facilities to ensure other employees are not impacted when you take your actions..."

WHAT ABOUT THE WINDOW???

merry Who knows - it's just going to be a shitty, warm, flowery odour instead of just a shitty and warm one :|

'Actioned'! Ha ha ha!

Leave a box of matches in the loo. Lighting a match works a lot better at dissipating the faecal stench than air freshener (I work with a lot of older men who like long rich lunches).

My vote is for number 1 doing the 2s. Do i win?

Clintons, I've heard of lighting farts but not matchstick air freshener. Well I never!

Matches do work to get rid of the pong but you need to also like the smell of sulphur!!

I can see the H&S bods going berserk over that...

Haven't rift yet but dh had something similar at work. Email to everybody concerning one particular floor. Something like 'whoever has been pebble dashing...'
I hadn't heard of pebble dashing before.

Pebble dashing email came from the top, which may have helped.

It can't be culprit 3 - surely he wouldn't be farting all the time if he has a nice regular poo every morning? My money's on number 1 as the number twoer. I bet he goes for a walk to get his bowels moving.

Why not put a word search in the loo for people to do while they're shitting. Use words like 'air freshener' 'stink' 'bowels' and then the unused letters could spell out 'please open the window after your poo'.

A bit convoluted but it might work.

OP once you discover the culprit you can tell everyone and then poo freely and blame it on them. Bonus!

I can't poo at work. My body won't let me.

Tell us first though

And 2 of them are probably thinking it's you OP! After all you are the one who is wafting about with air freshener!

make a word cloud of this thread and leave it in the loo.

Impacted Purple?
The staff may well end up so if can't use the loos
Just need to ensure the offender gets bunged up too!

instructional poster here: I've seen something similar abroad:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16983788

I would like to point out that when people smear faeces onto walls, it is often a sign of mental illness.

I would also like to point out that if someone's faeces smells that bad, it could be caused by a medical condition such as Crohn's Disease. This doesn't mean that the person in question shouldn't open the window, of course, but the chances are that they already know how much it smells.