I don’t diary very much, actually very rarely, so her goes nothing.
My wife, a manager with a large Fortune 500 company, turned to me this morning with a question. “How do I tell a professional woman that I have to work with in meetings that she stinks?”
No, it turns out that it’s not too much perfume. The woman is of another ethnic background with, evidently, a penchant against bathing and using a deodorant in the morning before work. When my wife identified the woman’s racial background, I realized that I, too, had noticed similar individuals, usually men of that background, often smelling unwashed.
This woman does not report to my wife in this business so there is no direct connection that would allow her to speak to the woman in a professional capacity. They are not friends, but just acquaintances and colleagues around a board room table. But the problem exists because sitting in meetings with this woman requires sitting as far away from her as is possible.
While I realize there are some ways that this might be accomplished, I thought that this blog might be a way of asking for advice and/or input on this subject.
What would you do?