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friday hax chat q: admin sent out an email about their cow orker's "fragrance sensitivity"

Posted by mr monkey (aka chris) Sep 16 '16, 10:20

Q: Fragrance sensitivities?

Today we got an e-mail from one of our administrators to the effect that a retired employee (who still comes in to work occasionally) has fragrance sensitivities and so we shouldn't wear perfume and should start using unscented laundry detergent, shampoo, deodorant, everything. Carolyn, we don't work in the same building, we don't work on the same projects, and I might be in the same cafeteria with her for two hours a week, tops. "Don't wear perfume" seems fine, but "change up all of your hygiene/laundry products" seems really excessive. Or am I being a jerk?

Responses:

tell that old whore to wear a surgical mask to work. problem solved. -- nm - CQ Sep 16, 11:02
I have fragrance sensitivity. I usually don't say anything, but someone put a really strong, obnoxious plug in air freshener in the hallway outside of - jnine Sep 16, 10:57 2
- ugh, that is so wrong. :/ like HR wrong. I'm sensitive, too; and asked a past coworker - b. Sep 16, 11:20
- put a fish in their ceiling tiles -- nm - Beaker Sep 16, 10:58
way back when, when I was in training at the bank, my trainer was sensitive to cologne, so I had to go without. - groiny Sep 16, 10:50 1
- now you know how we feel -- nm* - oblique Sep 16, 10:50
*doubles down on Axe* -- nm - oblique Sep 16, 10:34 1
- all the pussy -- nm - mr monkey Sep 16, 10:35
eff that old biddy. -- nm - decline Sep 16, 10:26 6
- they could go nuclear on her by just not bathing at all -- nm - mr monkey Sep 16, 10:40
- it would be, sort of, fair for people who have to work in close proximation, but that should be stated in the memo. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 10:27 4
  - so you would change your deodorant, detergent and shampoo if your coworker asked you to? -- nm - decline Sep 16, 10:35 2
    - the most I've done is change my moisturizer/body cream and not use perfume when I'm singing in a choral group or sharing a dressing room. that's it. - Diva Sep 16, 10:38
    - if i was making someone ill? yeah. - Andie Sep 16, 10:37
  - My wife had to go through this a year and change ago within her office. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Sep 16, 10:29

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