Employee asks her coworker to stop washing his hands because she's sensitive to the scent of the office soap: 'Does that mean she's not washing her hands?'

I'm sensitive to the smell of stinky hands.Nobody wants to be a micromanaging coworker. It's one thing to be a micromanaging manager. It's not an ideal management style, but at least their employees are managed by the person who is supposed to manage them, not by someone else. When you're an equal to your coworker, you should not be going around telling them what to do about basically anything. If they smell bad, you should tell HR so they can address it professionally. If they're just plain annoying, there is very little you can say in the workplace that can actually fix that problem. If they're bad at their job, it's not like you can fire them! You might feel uncomfortable telling your manager that they aren't picking up the slack, because maybe that's not your call to make. The best thing you can do is just be friendly with your coworker and hope that they aren't a total disaster. Sometimes there are things that need to be addressed with your coworker that aren't as easy as asking them to pick up a shift for you. They might be saying a lot of unprofessional things that make the workplace uncomfortable. They might talk so much about unimportant things in your open-concept office…

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