I love the assumptions that because I said what I did, I must never have seen bums or interacted with them.
I took in a homeless person. Got her cleaned up. Got her off of the fucking drugs. Couldn't get her to go to school, but tried. Resurrected a relationship between her and her mother (after I took the time and effort to gain custody of her) and eventually, got her in a position where she was clean, she was staying away from the crowd that encouraged and enabled her behavior, and she was ready to go home. It worked.
During the ordeal she ran away a couple of times. She would physically strike out at us. She'd be given the trust to go out and would return high as a kite. It didn't work immediately.
It took the TIME and the EFFORT to show her that we wouldn't give up on her like everyone else did.
And it WORKED.
So I know what I speak.
As for someone saying they'd never hire someone with no hygeine - you don't have a bathroom in your offices? It's a new invention, real high-tech. You can wash in there with this cool thing called water and this slippery stuff called soap.
You should get one.