Funky

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OK, do you guys have any serious advice for how to deal with an officemate who stinks? This is getting out of hand, and I can think of no polite way to bring it up. Any suggestions?

For 3 consecutive weeks, I recorded his stink (in arbitrary Hobo Power Units, or HPUs), as well as kept track of which shirt out of his collection of 3 shirts (yes, 3 shirts) he wore on any given day. The fact that he only owns one pair of jeans rendered pants-tracking useless.

The chart is self-explanatory, and indicates that showering does not occur during the work week.

The shirt color data are provided as a heat-map, if you will. I thought I was detecting a shirt-color pattern, with Friday shaping up to be his Black Shirt Day - but he threw me for a loop when he wore his green shirt on the last Friday.