Detroit city employees discouraged from wearing strong scents

Grumpy · #1 03-17-2010, 07:08 AM

Leonard N. Fleming / The Detroit News

Detroit --City employees with a strong aroma of perfume, cologne or any scented products will soon be in for a warning.
Detroit officials have plans to place placards in three city buildings detailing scented products to avoid due to a settlement in a widely publicized federal lawsuit filed by a city planner in 2008 and settled last month.
The employee, Susan McBride, was awarded $100,000 in the federal case because of her breathing sensitivity to chemical products -- but she has yet to receive her money.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100...#ixzz0iR1eDp47

As someone who absofreakinglutely cannot stand the scents that most women and men bath themselves in, I applaud the shit outta this.

Its about time that !

Charles · #2 03-17-2010, 07:21 AM

Detroit outlawed the Pollock shower?

Chas

BlueStreak · #3 03-17-2010, 08:39 AM

I should take this to work. We have a woman there whose "scent" is so strong it damn near brings tears to my eyes. This in a place where we roast about 250-300,000 pounds of coffee per shift. It's a nasty odor, theres some kind of perfume, but there is also an indescribable underlying funk. UG!

Good for Detroit! If that city can't do anything else right, it can stamp out foul body odors.

Dave

Twodogs · #4 03-17-2010, 10:25 AM

What about that patchouli oil shit that we hippies used to wear. I smell that shit today and it makes me want to barf. Yuck!

d-ray657 · #5 03-17-2010, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

What about that patchouli oil shit that we hippies used to wear. I smell that shit today and it makes me want to barf. Yuck!

Don't forget Musk oil.

The big thing now is Axe or something like it. We would always tell the boys that if they insist on wearing something smelly, it should come with them into the room, not announce their entrance. It's hard to fight it when the ads are all telling them that hot chicks will be all over them if they put the right scent on.

I'm just now getting over a case of bronchitis, but coming across any strong perfume can send me on a coughing jag.

Regards,

D-Ray

Twodogs · #6 03-17-2010, 11:18 AM

I wear Axe every now and then. It's good for covering up that annoying smoke smell.

Boreas · #7 03-17-2010, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

What about that patchouli oil shit that we hippies used to wear. I smell that shit today and it makes me want to barf. Yuck!

Never went in much for the oils but I still burn incense (while listening to the Mahavishnu Orchestra

)

John

Twodogs · #8 03-17-2010, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Boreas

Never went in much for the oils but I still burn incense (while listening to the Mahavishnu Orchestra

)

John

I burn incense too, it drives the Missus crazy.

Sandy G · #9 03-17-2010, 12:48 PM

Ever since I had my stroke, I can barely tolerate cigarette smoke, loud perfume, BO, any of that. There were several women my mom's age who you could smell 'em comin' a half hour before they got there...Fortunately, they're all about gone now...

Boreas · #10 03-17-2010, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandy G

Ever since I had my stroke, I can barely tolerate cigarette smoke, loud perfume, BO, any of that. There were several women my mom's age who you could smell 'em comin' a half hour before they got there...Fortunately, they're all about gone now...

Imagine what it must be like for a newborn coming into a world where everything is new. It must be pretty intense.

I think we learn to ignore certain things so that our senses aren't overloaded with extraneous stimuli. Maybe after a "brain related event" we can unlearn certain things like what sensory input to ignore or de-emphasize so we can concentrate on the important stuff.

Just some random uninformed thoughts.

John