Colleague’s Showering Method Forces Employee to Quit

Reason for refusing to shower naked
“Because it’s too much trouble to do the laundry.”

A stock photo of a man taking a shower. / Maridav-shutterstock.com

An employee has quit his job due to the unbearable stench from a colleague. The colleague’s foul smell was due to his peculiar habit of showering with his clothes on to kill two birds with one stone – get clean and do laundry simultaneously.

This absurd story was posted on a personal X (former Twitter) account on the 15th.

For some time, Mr. A’s office had been filled with an unidentified foul smell so intense it gave everyone headaches. Everyone suspected some food waste or a damp rag was rotting somewhere in the office.

However, the source of the stench was somewhere else. They realized the smell only emerged when Employee B was in the office.

The other employees were baffled and worried about approaching B without hurting his feelings.

The mystery was soon solved.

At a company dinner, B casually mentioned that he showers with his clothes on because he hates doing laundry. He said that living alone made laundry a chore, so he soaped up and hung his clothes to dry. Everyone was stunned into silence.

Ultimately, A quit his job, unable to bear the disgusting smell any longer.

Showering naked is as natural as sitting on the subway.

However, in dramas and movies, there are occasional scenes where characters enter the shower fully clothed, usually to express their deep sorrow. And they often cry while doing it.

Male characters predominantly perform these scenes. An unspoken rule seems to dictate that the clothes should be something like a dress shirt that gets thoroughly soaked.

In reality, actor Jung Joon Ho made headlines in 2019 for his scene in the JTBC drama SKY Castle, where he showers fully clothed, expressing his torment. His crying shower scene became one of his best scenes.

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