to murder disgusting smell-obsessed woman at work

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I swear she has some kind of fetish. In the morning she tells us about the 'whiffy' (seriously) people she encountered on the bus. When she comes back from the toilet she invariably says things like 'smells like someone crawled in the pipes and died'. Today I was just about to take my first bite of some boring sliced edam cheese (that smells of nothing) on a fucking Ryvita and she says 'ooh good, it's your lunch, I thought it might be your feet for a minute there! Cheesy feet haha!' and I was so annoyed and disgusted I got up and threw the whole lot in the trash.

I'm the manager of her manager and I'm seriously considering raising this as a performance issue...

Sensory processing disorder here, she sounds like me, and sounds like she has the same social skills as me. She would piss me off but that doesn't stop me from coming out with shite when I shouldn't. I can never actually tell when the right time IS to say most things. And I'm also someone who will be embarrassed coming out of a stinky loo and say similar because I want people to know for sure it's not me.

She's a pain in the arse and you're a tantrumming toddler. You threw your lunch away! Really? Did you then call her a bum bum head or something? You sound very well suited. Maybe you should ask her out?

Could she be on the autistic spectrum? That can cause hypersensitivity to smells.

That's what I was thinking - hyper sensitive to smells coupled with inappropriate or tactless comments - 2 signs of ASD.

@Becca19962014 Ugh what a vile woman, I wish I could put her in her place for you!

It's easy to say ignore it, but the mental impact it must have must been harrowing. I hope someone does put her in her place soon and makes her realise she's behaving horribly.

If nothing changes, take a photo, take it to social media and tag the store and how they have dealt with you - this is not on. I'm surprised they are letting her get away with it during working hours!

Lots of hugs for you!

Just sniff discreetly but obviously every time you walk past her then loudly say 'Gosh - someone had curry last night! '
She'll soon shut up.

@KissUntilTheyDieOfRabies

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To be fair it's not the stores fault, they tried to fire her over it (the abuse I got for that I cannot tell you - was not my intention for her to be fired but just told to pack it in) but because of her diagnosis they couldn't and the advice was just to put with it. So I Just ended up making it worse for myself.

MollysMum I always want to say Bi-opic rather than Bio-pic for Biopic (film about a person, like a biography).

Im sure there are other words I mis-say in my head too, I like your example, I do that too

I don’t know if she’s autistic but I don’t think so. I, however, am. Among my sensory issues is an aversion to sounds and words that I perceive as baby talk or vulgar in a base way - cutesy words for genitals or bodily functions make me feel physically uncomfortable. I’m also really formal with people at work because I never want to be inappropriate or joke at the wrong time. My friends and family think I’m pretty funny though and are surprised that I’m basically a high performing ice queen at work. Like I said if you knew me (at least in passing) you’d hate me.

You did say you were ‘seriously considering raising it as a performance issue’ that doesn’t sound lighthearted. A quick ‘oh give over Sandra we don’t want to hear it!’should work:

I actually get the throwing away of the lunch. I did it once at a previous job. One woman would always comment on other people's food. I thought she'd gone home once so got my lunch out the fridge (cold Spanish omelette) she came up behind me and stuck her face over my food saying "what the hell is that?!" Along with an expression of disgust. That coupled with the fact that she probably breathed all over it made me throw it away.

The woman at your work sounds like an idiot. I'm a manager too and I'd do a supervision with her

She may not autistic at all, lots of people are extremely sensitive to smell.
You do come across some smelly people on public transport.
I was waiting on my bus to work this evening, a guy picked his ear for ages, he started to roll ear wax between his fingers.
Work toilets are smelly, cleaners rarely do skirting boards or doors or behind the loo, IME.
She was rude for commenting on your lunch, a quick word should nip it in the bud, drama over.

In your defence, she does sound really annoying.

I have a very heightened sense of smell. Edam does smell, it smells of unwashed bodies

I banned a member of my department from eating her stinking pot noodles in my classroom where the sink and kettle were located. She had to boil the kettle and take it to her classroom!

It's called a dry sense of humour. Think you need to lighten up a little.

I’d tell her that if it smells badly everywhere she goes then it must be her stinking all those places out!

Buy a pack of cheap clothes pegs and every time she makes a comment just silently hand her one.
When she asks why you keep giving her pegs just explain that she clearly needs one to protect her sensitive conk.

Some of you are very sensitive to comments about your food. O0 throwing away cheese because someone said it smelled at cheese, another poster throwing away an omelette because someone wondered what it was and might have breathed on it...
I had a school friend who became veggie and if you brought meat sandwiches would comment, ‘Ah, corpse sandwich again today then?’ Never stopped us eating...

I think she sounds really annoying.

I agree with poster upthread though, that a very firmly harumphed "For heaven's sake StinkWoman please stop sharing this stuff. It's totally inappropriate for work". And then staring intently at whatever you are doing and pretending to carry on regardless.

It's not performance but it IS behaviour! You could raise it but I'm not sure you should! She would grate on me too.
"Can we have a word, x? Your constant commenting on smell is making the team feel uncomfortable about using the toilets and eating their lunch. Please can you GROW THE FUCK UP"

"Mammylamb"

seriously

Oh god get a grip.

@MollysMummy2010 out of curiously, how should hyperbole be pronounced?