He Made A Comment About His New Coworker Smelling Bad, And His Coworker Actually Left And Ghosted Their Job Afterward
This 26-year-old man is a maintenance electrician for a housing company. Two weeks ago, the company hired a 33-year-old man to replace another employee who was retiring.
The new employee is also an electrician, and he was the one who had to show the new guy around the work site and walk him through what they had to do each day.
Right away, he noticed that the new guy was pretty quiet and a bit of an awkward person.
For the first few days, he did his best to get to know the new employee and start conversations, but he was the one who did most of the talking.
After putting in all this effort for several days, he eventually gave up trying to talk to the new hire. From then on, he stuck to only talking to the new guy about things related to their job.
Employees at the company receive an hour for their lunch breaks. During lunch, all of the employees eat together at the office.
However, since the new hire started working there, he’s been eating alone in their work van instead of with everyone else.
“I told him several times that he was welcome, but he never showed up until our director spoke with him. He then felt obligated to eat with us, but if he says five words during the break, it’s already a lot,” he said.
Whenever they drive out to different work sites, he spends five minutes talking with his coworkers at the site, but the new guy hangs back instead of joining in on the conversation or stays in the van, and in his view, this standoffish behavior from the new employee is a bit strange.
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Since their job requires them to work with a team of quite a few other coworkers, he thinks that one of the easiest ways to get to know others is to start with simple small talk.
Unfortunately, the new hire always smells like sweat, even first thing in the morning when he gets to work before they’ve started doing projects.
He brought this issue up with his supervisor, who said that he was already aware of it.
Because he had to work with the new guy for the whole day, often driving around in the van to different locations, he planned to gently broach the subject.
He told the new guy that their locker room had a supply of spare sweaters if he wanted to take some of them to have on hand during the day.
In response, the new employee asked him why he was bringing this up and if there was something wrong.
He was honest and told him that there was a sweaty smell in the car.
“Passive aggressively, he said, ‘What? I stink? Well, I’m sorry if I stink.’ I didn’t say anything else because he seemed pretty upset. We completed another small troubleshooting and got back to the car. Once seated, instead of going to the next troubleshooting, he tells me he is going to change since he stinks,” he explained.
The new guy was in the driver’s seat, and he proceeded to drive dangerously back to the office so that he could quickly change before they traveled to the next job site.
His coworker was driving about 45 miles per hour when the speed limit was 30, so he was terrified that they were going to get into an accident.
Plus, the new hire was reckless while driving through roundabouts and intersections.
When they arrived at the office, his coworker assured him he’d be ready in a few minutes after he’d changed his sweater. He waited in the van in the meantime.
Ten minutes went by, and the new guy hadn’t come back yet, so he got out of the van and walked into the office to see what he was doing.
“I run into my supervisor, who tells me that he just dropped his keys and grabbed his backpack on his way out without saying anything to anyone, asking what I did to him,” he shared.
Two hours after this, his coworker’s mother called the company to inform them that he’d passed out at home.
Now, he’s wondering if it was his fault that his coworker left the company without officially resigning.
Upon reflection, he feels terrible about the entire thing and wishes he hadn’t brought up the subject of his coworker’s smell with him directly.
What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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