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I hate my colleague

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Neoflex · 04/10/2017 08:20

Just wanted a rant really. He has just returned from a months holiday and it was bliss while he was gone. Here are the list of things I have to put up with until someone please fires him:

He doesn't wash, but instead covers himself in a shitty cheap aftershave that even cockroaches run from. He walks in and within 5 minutes I am sat here struggling to breathe.
He comes in but rather than starting to work he uses the desk and as kitchen worktop and starts preparing breakfast. Splish, splash, splosh. Then ten minutes of loud chewing.
Breakast is finished off with his first sexist/racist/inappropriate joke of the day.
He can't answer or ask a question without sarcasm or mansplaining. He will stand over my desk, almost breathing down my neck, sometimes even taking my mouse to "show me how to do something". 99.9% of the time he is wrong.
If it gets warm he might even take off his shoes. His feet stink worse than his body odour.
He doesn't do his job but then will do tasks nobody asked him or wants him to do. Like while he was gone I noticed he had renamed a folder from "Archive" to "Ignore". Just because he thinks that's a better name for it. So a sea of people were coming in to ask where the Archive had gone.
I have to wear headphones the whole day just so he won't try to involve me in his two hour long debate about what's on the news. Insert controversial topic: Catalonia/US shootings/North Korea/Transgender rights. He will take the opposite view to everyone else just to cause drama in the office.
He will leave half an hour earlier than everyone else, despite having arrived late, spent 1 hour making various snacks, done no work, and distracted everyone else.

Please agree with me, it can't get worse than this.

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hiddenmnetter · 04/10/2017 17:49

Lol @ a stinky second base. Unwashed teenagers not knowing what they're getting into...

On a serious note your stinky colleague's manager needs to deal with this or you will have to raise a grievance. You could try dealing with him directly but unlikely to work IME (and possibly give grounds for a grievance against you)

Neoflex · 05/10/2017 08:18

Update: This morning I am sat here with a scarf wrapped around half my face like I am on a trek through the desert.

If that isnt an obvious enough message, I am moving to another room as soon as my colleague arrives with the key.

Now have a cold after sitting in a room all day yesterday with the window open.

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PoorYorick · 05/10/2017 08:21

It won't be an obvious enough message, OP. Those sorts of people will not understand anything other than a very direct communication. The manager needs to deal with this, it is deeply antisocial.

redexpat · 05/10/2017 08:32

Stop being so fucking passive aggressive. Go to your boss and say that you cannot work under these conditions where the smell is making you nauseous to the point where you cant work and what is she going to do about it.

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