ravon1981 wrote: » An issue with personal hygiene. BO and messy hair.
mansize wrote: » This would be something you promise to address and they monitor it for a while. Wash and wear fresh clothes everyday. And buy a comb.
Stheno wrote: » Op had a warning for it a year ago. Op did you improve and let your standards slip? And do you deal with customers?
ravon1981 wrote: » Yes improvement but due to work pressure standards slips slightly with busy xmas period. Yes I do deal with customers. Also semi management. Not assistant manager but section manager.
mansize wrote: » Shower every morning, get a strong anti perspirant ensure your shoes don't smell either
ravon1981 wrote: » Do all those things. Just with it being busy being pulled left right and center. Hard not too when heat on full blast and up and down 15ft ladders
WhiteRoses wrote: » I'm sorry but I can see why management would be annoyed and coming down hard on you. Having to approach an employee even once over such a sensitive issue is awkward enough but having to remind them to shower and groom themselves on the regular creates a negative working environment. They must feel that you still aren't understanding if a year later you are still slipping up with something that is second nature to the majority of the population. I understand mental health issues can cause a lack of interest in personal appearance and I'm not sure if this is the case for you, but simply being under pressure at work is no excuse for such poor hygiene to the point that you've been given verbal warnings on the matter.
ravon1981 wrote: » I do understand they are not doing it out of spite but to help me but i was wondering on just the severity after a full year since a verbal warning.
mansize wrote: » Are you overweight? Do your colleagues smell? If not, your not cleaning properly. What antiperspirant do you use?
mansize wrote: » have you been spoken about it between times? Do you change you clothes everyday?
ravon1981 wrote: » not overweight but not slim either lol Have said to a couple of the lads during hot weather but just a general thing. nothing formal. just between me and them. Use nivea for men.
ravon1981 wrote: » just once a couple of weeks ago during black friday when we were mental. yes new trousers, underwear, socks, shirt the works
Stheno wrote: » So three times now including last year, Black Friday and this latest issue? Have you thought about going to the Dr to have a check up to see if there is something causing this? If you smell that badly that your colleagues notice it and are showering every day and wearing clean clothes, that is not normal. Same with messy hair, have you thought about getting a haircut? How is your hair messy? Is it long?
Help!!!! wrote: » Why not have deodorant somewhere on the premises that you can respray when you start to get whiffy? In fairness if you're working in a warehouse doing physical work & your not sweating then I'd be more worried
ravon1981 wrote: » 3 times?? No cause other than just extremely busy. Only customer comments I have had are that I am always running around the place getting stuff done where as others are not. No colleague has mad a complaint. Just managers. I have strange hair. Grows in patches especially at sides. Hair cuts last about a month. Hair is not long.
ravon1981 wrote: » I actually do. Thats the thing. I always make sure I have one handy just in case after the first chat.
Stheno wrote: » You said once last year, then this year during black Friday and now this latest issue? Or is the latest issue Black Friday?
ravon1981 wrote: » awh sorry yes.
Stheno wrote: » Which is it, two or three times in total? That's actually important. Also with the clean clothes every day, are you changing socks and shoes, and do you wear the same coat/jacket?
ravon1981 wrote: » One formal last year. 2 informal ie in passing but disciplinary scheduled for Thursday so that is why I am wondering after the verbal warning over 12 months ago how it would play out. Whether they could go written or just go to verbal again.
