Perfume, the Latest Item on the Work Place Hit List
We currently ban smoking in the workplace, and in public places such as bars and restaurants in many states. Trans fats are also on the hit-list by people who are smarter than you, people who will tell you what is good for you and what isn’t.
Once you start down this slope you open the door to people who don’t like something to have it banned. Where will it stop. If you think I am over-reacting, check out this story.
An office worker for the US city of Detroit is suing for her colleagues to be banned from wearing perfume which gives her such severe headaches, nausea and coughing fits that she must leave work.
That’s right, we need to ban perfume in public. This is just incredible. Now someone want’s to tell other people how they should smell. Granted some people may need to be told they smell, but not people wearing too much perfume. This is insane, it sounds like someone setting up a disability claim to me.
Now she is seeking a jury trial to make the city force fellow employees to come to work un-scented, citing disability discrimination laws. She is claiming unspecified damages for “pain, suffering, humiliation and outrage” suffered.
Discrimination? What can I say? This woman is looking to collect a government check in my opinion. Just add another name to the physically unwilling to work list.
What would this country be coming to if the government actually started dictating what someone could smell like at work?
America's Watchtower 
People’s immune systems are being challenged by new chemicals at an insane rate. The young are especially vulnerable.
A now dead friend had me take him to hospital and supervise his room assignment. He had a wild condition : I could see his eyes roll and tongue come out as soon as he hit the door. He was choking to death from toxic disinfectant residues in the air.
Hospitals routinely refuse permission for their staff to use scent. I wouldn’t even use scented laundry soap when I visited my friend.
Nobody used to hear about conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Asthma stats are going through the roof.
Weird shit is happening. Lives will be changed.
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Ok look, I understand that it is a personal right to wear perfume, but it is my right as a human to be able to breathe, I have asthma and perfume/aftershave is my biggest trigger. I am currently experiencing difficulties with an employee from the other company that shares our building, she wears perfume that is too strong and triggers attacks, I have suffered several due to her perfume. I have been battling her bosses over this for 7 months now. Why is it fair to me that I have to suffer the attacks and the after effects just so she can smell “pretty”? Be considerate of your fellow human
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I am battling perfume in the work place also. I even work with handicap children. At least I can convey how it makes me sick. I understand the rights to wear obnoxious perfume but it get to the point I cant breath and throw up. Perfumes are toxic to the human. Its chemicals poison our bodies. Some are just not as sensative that does not mean it is not harming you. Some just not sensative enough to know it. It is amazing what we are fed and able to use on our bodies. Kids cannot swollow toothpaste because it has floor cleaner in it, well when someone has a heart problem they put a pill under the tongue goes right into the body. Let see toothpaste is all over the mouth and I don’t know about anyone else but you swollow no matter what, some at least. I think because hamburgers in the daily drive up can harm you but you don’t feel it or know it. I think that isn’t the clue to eat it because its there. Sign Get a Grip
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I just got off work after sneezing and my nose running all day long because there was so much perfume in my office today. This does not happen every day, but it has happened quite a bit and I have had to miss time from work as a result. There is no reason for anyone to wear perfume to work at the same level they would going to a night club or some other social event. The work place if for work. It is just like wearing the appropriate dress code. Perfume is great, but should be worn moderately. If you spray there times to go out. Spray once for work. I seriously doubt this woman who is making a claim against her company has made the whole thing up to get money. There are many allergies and perfume is one of those things that trigger them. There is also asthma, like Karen has, and it is life threatening. No we shouldnt tell the world they cant wear perfume, but in the work place there should be consideration.
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I think this person who wrote this statement is way out of line. I am sitting in my workplace LRC and am dealing with a headache and thumping sinuses. Perfume use to be natural but now it has been turned into chemicals that others are allergic to — including me. I am not one of those who dont want to work. I am doing a 58 hr week to help my company over the holidays. I dont want to collect a check from the gaovernment, I just want to breathe! The lady sitting across from me obviously bathed in chemicals before coming to work and I’m paying for it.
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Folks have a right to chemical free air in the work place more than the right to smell a certain way. Until you’ve had a life threatening asthma attack at school or work you don’t know what you are talking about.
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If someone can be kept off disability and stay a productive member of society with a few wokplace accomadations it’s a good thing for the economy and the morale of the country. We need to be compassionate and resposible to the rights of our fellows citizens to breathe clean air. It trumps the right to wear perfumes.
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