The office I work out of has a daily lunch service that carts pre packaged foods to all of our employees. It isn’t uncommon for one or two rather ‘unpleasent’ employees to order a food filled with garlic or onions then top off their lunch with a menthol cigarette.

Wow…. How do you let someone like that know of their problem?

If you have a colleague who emits unpleasent oders wherever they go, you might need an arsenal of trickery to ‘wash off.’

If the person is someone you know, simply talk to them discretely away from all other employees and let them know that you are a close friend of theirs and just want to let them know other employees have mentioned their ‘unpleasent’ breath. This will likely solve the problem itself as long as the person trusts you well enough as a friend not to be offended.

However, if the culprit is someone you are not to familar with and no other colleague has the ‘guts’ to tell them use this trick.

Walk up to them and simply say “Hey (name), want a mint?” Most likely the person will understand the problem and not take this as offensive. They might not even get what you are pushing on them and take the mint. The problem will solve itself.

Matthew Peschong
Minnesota Web Site Design