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Imagine having all those ADs and no chance to induldge in your conquests...
Detroit Workers Ordered to Go Scentless
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Imagine having all those ADs and no chance to induldge in your conquests...
I suspect if you did it so the rest of the cubicle farm weren't involved there'd be no problem at all. 
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- Chris
That's old news.
This is a perfect example of how you can avoid some lawsuits by not being a butt hole. And also of how a few butt holes screw things up for the rest.
If I'm being told repeatedly that my cologne is too strong, I would apologize and politely come up with a compromise. Something like "OK Bertha, I'll wear a little less tomorrow and if it still bugs you then I'll switch" would have been the gentlemanly thing to do.
I like cologne but I wouldn't want to fumigate the office. I hate it when people over do the cologne/perfume so much that you can taste it.
This is a perfect example of how you can avoid some lawsuits by not being a butt hole. And also of how a few butt holes screw things up for the rest.
If I'm being told repeatedly that my cologne is too strong, I would apologize and politely come up with a compromise. Something like "OK Bertha, I'll wear a little less tomorrow and if it still bugs you then I'll switch" would have been the gentlemanly thing to do.
I like cologne but I wouldn't want to fumigate the office. I hate it when people over do the cologne/perfume so much that you can taste it.
I'll agree that the proper way to handle this matter would have been to take care of it at the local level. Like right in the office, and I'm sure that if it needed to go to a higher level that a supervisor could have taken care of things.
Talk about a few butt holes, how about the butt holes that chose to make a federal case out of this? Just what we needed, more of those Bozo's in Washington passing rules on things they know nothing about. Oh, I forgot, that's what they do anyway.
Detroit workers ordered to go scentless?
I think you need to read the article you linked to, because you missed a very important part of the story.
I think you need to read the article you linked to, because you missed a very important part of the story.
Talk about a few butt holes, how about the butt holes that chose to make a federal case out of this? Just what we needed, more of those Bozo's in Washington passing rules on things they know nothing about. Oh, I forgot, that's what they do anyway.
Not a federal case, and not an all-out ban. The institution of a policy to avoid excessive scents.
Where did the Washington thing come from?
It sounds to me like, someone can't do the job at hand, and are looking to blame their poor job performance on something other than themselves.
I work in a Hospital/Doctors office. Not only are scents banned for employees
The patients are also encouraged not to wear any scents. This all came from some folk feeling that their rights were being infringed upon having to work in a scent oriented environment. WELL.....I NEVER..........!!!!!!!
The patients are also encouraged not to wear any scents. This all came from some folk feeling that their rights were being infringed upon having to work in a scent oriented environment. WELL.....I NEVER..........!!!!!!!
With all the job losses and lay-offs and economic turmoil I am so relieved that they got that strong perfume and colonge issue nipped in the budd
. Boy our priorities are in check.
. Boy our priorities are in check.
Officials plan to place warning placards in three city buildings. The signs will warn workers to avoid "wearing scented products, including ... colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ... (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners."
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I hope they enjoy the scent of body odor and sweat in the summer.
Detroit? Of all the city governments that need something to cover up the smell of corruption, that one is pretty high on the list.
I can't talk, though. Seattle is following as fast as it can.
I can't talk, though. Seattle is following as fast as it can.
Documentation, please? (re: some folk being infringed over scents) I was under the impression that the out-right ban was due to the patient risk of allergies, especially asthmatics. Kind of how latex balloons are verboten in the hospital setting, as well.
That makes me wonder, though: Are flowers (which often smell) still allowed, or are they also on the banned list?
Full disclosure: Wife has latex allergy, daughter is asthmatic, I'm trained as an EMT Basic, and currently serving an externship in EKG. Scent was not mentioned in my externship agreement, but I went "bare" today since I know how the rules are.
This city cracks me up. My vote is for lazy, not some powerful scent.
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You're right--the article does say "urge" not to and "warned" not to.
Of course, in a place of work those terms and "ordered not to" is a distiction without a difference.
And being government doesn't make them fire-proof; in fact, many public workers serve at the pleasure of the office-holder.
Good lord. Someone got $100,000 because a co-worker went Charles Bronson with their perfume. I would be interested to know how this matter made it all the way to a lawsuit.
Sorry but I'll say it.....Attorneys.
Geesh, people say we're a bunch a 'dem der hill-billys in them there Kentucky Hills but at least we have some common sense. I read posts from gentlemen from across the pond, regarding firearms and favorite knives, and the restrictions they must endure. And it reminds me to be thankful I live in this great nation of ours. Then I read stories like this one and I wonder how much longer until this isn't the "America" we knew as kids or that our parents and grandparents knew. I'm honestly concerned about what kinda of country we're going to hand over to our children when I hear of stories like these and all the frivolous lawsuits.
we've two in our office for whom this is an all year issue, as I discovered when I gave up cigarettes last autumn. I started wearing cologne and such then so that nobody might think the stench was my doing.
Sorry but I'll say it.....Attorneys.
Geesh, people say we're a bunch a 'dem der hill-billys in them there Kentucky Hills but at least we have some common sense. I read posts from gentlemen from across the pond, regarding firearms and favorite knives, and the restrictions they must endure. And it reminds me to be thankful I live in this great nation of ours. Then I read stories like this one and I wonder how much longer until this isn't the "America" we knew as kids or that our parents and grandparents knew. I'm honestly concerned about what kinda of country we're going to hand over to our children when I hear of stories like these and all the frivolous lawsuits.
Amen, Brother!!
