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It stinks in Detroit...

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  • I Ian Shlasko

    I actually know a woman who had the same issue several years ago... She was getting migraines whenever a woman came into the office loaded up with perfume (Not one particular woman, but anyone who overdid the scent). Fortunately, she's changed jobs since. Me, I don't get headaches or anything from it, but I do find it REALLY annoying... But then, I don't find makeup attractive either, so maybe I'm just weird.

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    Ian Shlasko wrote:

    But then, I don't find makeup attractive either,

    Maybe you should have a professional put it on you instead (or at least get some training)... :)

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    • S Steve Mayfield

      Detroit city employees told not to wear perfume, cologne, aftershave due to a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. [^] :Don't Breath:

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      Joe Woodbury
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      An employee of Detroit City was actually working?!?

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      • M martin_hughes

        I think I'd take the overpowering stench of perfume over the malodorous stench of noxious bum gas any day of the week.

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        martin_hughes wrote:

        noxious bum gas

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          Ian Shlasko wrote:

          But then, I don't find makeup attractive either,

          Maybe you should have a professional put it on you instead (or at least get some training)... :)

          .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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          "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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          "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

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          • D Dan Neely

            When you marinade yourself in a stench, legal or not you eventually stop being able to smell it at all yourself because the receptors in your nose become saturated.

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            This. Whether it's perfume, smoke, or manure, the person wearing it is just not a good authority on how or whether it stinks.

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            • S Steve Mayfield

              Detroit city employees told not to wear perfume, cologne, aftershave due to a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. [^] :Don't Breath:

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              Mark_Wallace
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              I don't think it's the wearing of cologne, etc; it's the amount that some people wear, or the aggregate effect -- go to a coffee bar in Italy between eight and nine in the morning, and you can't breathe for all the aftershave. Beats certain other smells, though. I think a better ruling would be "Don't smell strongly of anything", "give up vegetarianism", or "lay off the pork & beans".

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              • S Steve Mayfield

                Detroit city employees told not to wear perfume, cologne, aftershave due to a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. [^] :Don't Breath:

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                I worked with a woman who left a trail of teary eyes and coughing whenever she walked past the cube farm. Everyone absolutely dreaded sitting in a meeting with her because after about 10 minutes we were all so saturated with her odor that seven hours later at home our wives accused us of having torrid office affairs. Not to be weightist, but she was a big woman and to this day I cringe when I think about what odor she may have been trying to cover up with the gallons of foul perfume she must have gone through each month.... Jim

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                • J Jim Crafton

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                  The only thing that is ridiculous is that it actually took a court to do what a supervisor should have done.

                  That's kind of what I mean - I should have been more clear. I don't see why this had to go to court at all when it easily could have been handled "in house".

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                  Mark Denson
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                  And run the risk of the employee wearing the perfume to sue the city and gain the "right" to wear perfume to the office? Sounds to me like the lawsuit that was filed had the best outcome because the employee who doesn't know when to stop spraying can only yell at the courts.

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                  • S Steve Mayfield

                    Detroit city employees told not to wear perfume, cologne, aftershave due to a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. [^] :Don't Breath:

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                    Nickolay Karnaukhov
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                    Totally stupid :-(

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                    • S Steve Mayfield

                      Detroit city employees told not to wear perfume, cologne, aftershave due to a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. [^] :Don't Breath:

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                      Fabio Franco
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                      Like everything else, exagerating in perfume will always piss somebody off. Some people just don't have a common sense to use just a discrete amount so everyone don't need to feel like they are sniffing directly into someone's neck. People usually don't realize that they are all over the room because our nose (by nose I mean brain) learns to ignore the smell and they think they are not wearing enough perfume. Try sniffing some fresh coffee grain (brain reset) and you will be able to realize how strong the perfume is.

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                      • S Steve Mayfield

                        I'd yell "hypocrite" the day she walks in smelling like roses :laugh:

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                        James Lonero
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                        Or smelling like anything else!

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