Blood boiling

[TFletchersWife]

Colleague sat opposite me sprays her deodrant/body spray about once ever hour. It is really strong to the point I can taste it. I ask her to stop and she ignores me so I told her last week to stop it or I WILL shive the aerosol up her arse. She laughed and said sorry. She then continue to do it. More people complain. She has done it again.

Every lunch time she paints her nails - the smell is giving me a headache. Everytime I ask her to do it somewhere else she says sorry ok.

She is not crunching on a lolly and sicking it loudly. I am losing the fucking will to live.

AIBU to make a formal complaint? Or put a really passive agressive sign by her desl regarding strong scents in the office

*I'd say ' that's making me feel really sick'

And the next time she did it, vomit all over her desk*

Think I will go with this, seems to be the most reasonable suggestion.

This person would not make a complaint about me. She is an absolute wallflower and hates any kind of confrontation/disruption.

Which is why it baffles me why she would continue DOING this to me

We are told not to use any aerosols in the office (including changing rooms) because they interfere with/set off the fire alarms
So at the very least, she shouldn't be doing that, let alone how antisocial she is being

pure class passive aggression. At least part of why she is doing this is to wind you up.

Def complain to HR or manager - I would have the first day she did it twice (but then I think aerosols should be banned in gyms too - I hate them and I'm very sensitive to fumes/smells etc).

Many years ago I used to wear Opium perfume and a colleague asked me not to use so much as it was so strong. She was perfectly polite and reasonable about it and I was totally mortified and stopped using it when I went to work. How thick-skinned must this woman be to just ignore your remarks?!

Buy an orange with really stubborn tough skin. Then peel it deliberately messily next to her and spray it in her eye.

email her one of these

T Fletchers I only said about a complaint as you wrote that you told her to shove it up her arse. You didn't actually say this so she's got no cause to complain.
Her behaviour isn't appropriate in an office. You've made that clear to her. Report.

I have illness that makes me sensitive to smells and then I feel really ill, plus I have asthma. YADNBU. Why the hell does she need deodorant every bloody hour! Tell her to get a decent anti perspirant roll on! I'd definitely complain if you have told her and she has carried on. She can walk to the toilets fgs.

Many years ago, a colleague and I worked out that every day I wore a particular perfume, she would sneeze and sneeze. I happily stopped wearing it. I would have got no satisfaction whatsoever in making my colleague ill. We were only 21 or 22 or so and we handled it with common sense and maturity.

Your colleague sounds like she's getting a real kick out of her PA perfume-spraying ways. You says she's a wallflower (coward?) so maybe this is her way of giving her colleagues the finger (oh so innocently) without actually doing/saying anything obvious.

She's on the wrong track though, because you will have to sort her out by going to management. You have a right to be able to breathe at work. It could have serious consequences for some.

or this one

I can't imagine her to be doing it maliciously though. Maybe she is!?

She's always so paranoid etc that she smells and we all tell her she doesn't.

Its like she's either really dull or just thick skinned and no fucks are being given

Don't warn her, just make the formal complaint to HR, line manager or whoever is the most appropriate. She really shouldn't be doing either of these things at her desk and if it gets on your nerves it most likely annoys other people too.

but she does smell!
of vile body spray!!!

What is it with these weirdos who think sitting at their workplace desk is akin to sitting on the side of their own bath?

maybe this lot could give some advice - www.iaquk.org.uk/ResourcesPerfumeOdours.html
Canada and the US seem a lot more interested in this - but definately make a formal complaint. Employers have a duty of care to keep their staff safe

You've asked her to stop, and she's ignoring you. If it's affecting your work, you're completely within your rights to make a complaint.

Take a shit on her desk. At least that way she'll have a reason for spraying deodorant

She's always so paranoid etc that she smells and we all tell her she doesn't

So she has olfactory reference syndrome, a form of mental illness. But well done for getting a load of randoms to slag her off online, OP . I guess you don't have a clue how distressing this is for her? How humiliating it must have been for her to admit this to you?

Please try to treat her with some compassion. People with this delusional belief can be severely affected by it, even to the point of suicide.

So she has olfactory reference syndrome, a form of mental illness.
Wow that is some serious armchair diagnosis.
Is that why she paints her nails at her desk everyday too?

She also has "Don'tGiveAShitAboutAnyoneElseIitis, and LieToYaFaceSyndrome, as well as special abilities to know what the OP is doing on the internet!

laughing at olfactory reference syndrome, you are joking, right?

Now heard everything! She's mentally ill and you're being unreasonable! 😂😂😂. Yes right...

Shiny. No need to go on about op should show compassion.

She can go to the toilets and spray. She has a lack of manners not a mental illness.

No not laughing at it! Just highly doubtful and far more likely that she's just a douche

Mentally ill or not, she can do it in the toilets!