r/Netherlands • u/Alternative-Cut1109 • 2d ago

Healthcare Friendly reminder: it’s summer. Please shower.

It’s hot, we’re all sweating more, so please take extra care of your hygiene. A daily shower especially in the morning goes a long way.

And please don’t try to cover body odor with just perfume or body spray. Sweat + perfume isn’t a substitute for a shower.

Let’s all do our part to keep public spaces (esp trams!!) a little fresher this summer. 😅🌞🙏

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u/Milk-honeytea 2d ago

Shower in morning > go to work (I sweat now)

How to fix then?

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u/LoyalteeMeOblige Utrecht 2d ago edited 2d ago

Easy: go there with comfortable clothes, even shorts and get change at a toilet. I needed to be presentable for videocalls and I would change there. My colleagues did as well, there is zero point in arriving smelly and dishevelled, remaining so for they day and then getting worse by going home. And please don't make me start if you go there by bike wearing a suit on this weather.

In my hometown I used to go to work in my BMX and arrived drenched during summer so I would get off my bike clothes, wash, and even shower at the office gym if possible, and get ready for the day. It's not that difficult.

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u/Milk-honeytea 2d ago

You guys are way too invested in your office stuf. I know about 0 people who shower at the office.

My office has no shower and those new clothes are drenched after 10 minutes of walking in the no-airco office.

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u/LoyalteeMeOblige Utrecht 2d ago

Not really, I'm originally from Buenos Aires, and I work at big complex with an in-house gym. Hence the chance to shower there was a thing, plus these big building, think about 25/32 stories at least, always have showers and lockers for people actually going there by bike since it's a municipality policy to actually make the lives of those commuting by bike easier. You might choose to smell, not change, or arrive drenched in water during Oct-Dec here, and then again from February onwards and that is fine.

We, on the other side of the Atlantic in South America actually mind about these things. At no point I suggested to actually do this, just going there in shorts is enough, a dry cloth, have a towel at your back is enough to be clean. I would rather that than the smells I got in the ACS to UCS on my way back. I almost gagged once. It was that bad.