Imagine this

..you're at work and a new colleague joins and is placed just beside you.

You smell a strong stench and realize damnit, it's your colleague's body odour. What will you do?
(BTW, this is a real life situation that happened to a friend of mine)

a. go up to him and let him know he stinks like hell and get the boss to move his place
b. bear with it. After all you're assuming you guys will remain colleagues for a long, long time.
c. bitch about him/her to your other colleagues and let everyone have a taste of his bad BO.
d. quit your job. After all your crap ass pay won't get you far in the company anyway. You don't have to put up with the permeating smell.

The guy did (a)