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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a website that will send an anonymous email to her. There are a few different phrases that you can pick. I remember sending one to someone about being smelly once. It was very polite.[/quote]

Sending an anonymous email is never polite. It's cowardly and undignified. I would be humiliated if someone sent me an anonymous email. Is this a hard conversation? Absolutely. That's why, like all difficult conversations, it needs to happen in person and not in an email or over a text or by phone. It shows you respect the co-worker as a person and are sharing the information because you care about her. [/quote]

New poster.  In theory, I agree PP.  But in this situation, I think being faced with this information (Basically, "You smell") face to face is going to be pretty awful.  Getting a tactfully worded email.  "I need to let you know because you may not be aware that you need to wear more anti-perspirant" is really much better.[/quote]

Yes, but it doesn't give the co-worker any opportunity to respond or ask questions. When you send something anonymously, you have no idea how the person will take the information or they will even understand it in the same way you intended it. That's why you do it face to face so there is no misunderstanding. The assumption is that this woman will be embarrassed and want to hide her face in shame because that might be how YOU would respond. Doing this anonymously robs the co-worker any control in the conversation, and that's the part that is not okay. [/quote]

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