 Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:4 | reply to sxd
Re: [Rant] How do deal with irritating fragrance No thanks, I need my car, but I promise to refrain from directing its tailpipe into your face while you're eating.  |
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| said by Wolfie00:No thanks, I need my car, but I promise to refrain from directing its tailpipe into your face while you're eating.
Alas, you failed to see the big picture. Cars' emissions are responsible for smog and airborne pollutants that affect the health of millions of people. Not to mention that it can worsen asthma. Saying that you were incommoded by second-hand smoke is what some people would call hypocrisy. But again, it is much easier to criticize and demonize smokers, as you so eloquently put it. Those who live in glass houses should not....pretty sure you know the rest.
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said by peterboro:Notice nothing on that site even hints toward ones right not to be assaulted by the battery of stenches from certain ethnic cooking that permeates whole buildings in parts of the GTA.
Unless you are fasting or eating moose/beaver/caribou tonight you are part of the "ethnic" aroma.  |
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 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | reply to snafu
Back on topic....manager, who will probably go to HR, or go to HR. DO NOT deal with it yourself, they could claim you are harassing them and you know who would win that? Not you. |
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Let a banana peel rot in your garbage near her for a few days and when she asks what the hell tell her it's your new office freshener Eau de Banana. Do you like it?  |
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 J E F FWhatta Ya Think About Dat?Premium
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Kitchener, ON
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Don't wash your feet for a couple weeks. Take you shoes off at the desk. When they complain, tell them you'll start washing your feet when they stop wearing the obnoxious perfume.
Generally perfume doesn't bother me, but I do recall buying this Swiffer furniture polish and it was too intense...nearly made me vomit. I think it was all scent and no polish.
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 A LurkerPremium
join:2007-10-27
Burlington, ON | reply to snafu
Manager or HR is your best option. I don't bother with perfume much any more at work (can't be bothered). However, I have one that if I even have a hint of a headache I can't stand. Most of the time though I love it though.
Even though I used to be a smoker (many ummm... decades ago now), I'm not really that happy when I get a heavy smoker in my office. It's one of those plant offices with no real ventilation (other than the door opening and closing) and when I've had meetings with a couple of smokers over an extended period of time I have to actually leave my office for a while. |
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 snafuIs it Friday yet ?Premium
join:2004-02-16
Mississauga
1 edit | Thanks everyone for your advice and some good laughs.
Several ways to approach this and absolutely want to avoid direct conversation / potential confrontation over the perfume. I have great working relationship with my manager. I'm going to speak to her in the morning to present my plan. We have a weekly dept meeting to share ideas etc. I will ask her to talk about fragrance sensitivity as a topic of the week so my friend isn't directly targeted. Plus she has orientation next week where she might get the hint. If that fails I will get mgr to ask her directly which I know she will if I ask her to. Then if necessary escalate to HR from there. Its amazing how shitty I felt and then better as soon as I left the building today but my face still feels and looks wind burned.
Some of these scents seem to really do it to me, mens and ladies alike.
I buy my wife Chanel coco and # 5 and have no problem with it. And I have some Chanel of my own that I wear on occasion but not to work. Maybe I need to get tested for allergies, between the odd whiff of diesel fumes from my car and years ago I when worked in a couple of materials test labs with a lot of organic chemicals I have become over sensitized. Apparently many fragrances contain formulations of toxic substances.
Other ideas:
1. buy new coworker some Chanel for valentines
2. open a can of sardines at desk, make and eat sandwich then leave can in trash to stink
3. tell coworker about Broadband reports and show her the interesting discussions on Canchat
I will update in due time. |
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peterboroPremium
join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON | reply to lugnut
said by lugnut :said by peterboro:said by lugnut : As long as it's legal to smoke I'll continue to smoke in my own home and outdoors and god help anyone who wants to enforce THEIR personal hygiene standards on MY lifestyle.
Actually it's illegal to smoke outdoors in parts of the province and I don't think they need gods help to stop you. I'm quite familiar with the unenforceable ordinances concerning certain public parks and impossible proximities to entryways. As a result, neither I, nor anyone I have ever heard or read of has ever been convicted, much less even hassled in those situations. Face it, cops have more important things to do with their time than enforce idiotic bylaws passed by vote-whoring politicians. If you were familiar with this initiative in Ontario you would know that police are not involved in enforcing it.
If you want to see people hassled and charged and convicted come to Peterborough there are plenty. If you are lucky you get an in-your-face finger waving lecture from our own local anti-smoking Nazi bylaw enforcement officer. If you are charged you will not have the option to just go pay a fine you will be summoned to appear in court to be lectured then fined and if you don't appear a warrant will be put out for your arrest. All this brought to you by Dalton and all the idiots who voted him in so you don't smoke outside hundreds of feet from anyone or any building. I don't smoke btw. |
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 JuggernautIrreverent or irrelevant?Premium
join:2006-09-05
Everywhere
kudos:1 | reply to snafu
Why not post a sign on your cube stating "Scent sensitive"?
Follow up on the other options. |
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jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 | Another option: buy a fan for your desk and aim it so that it pushes the air away from the scented person. |
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to snafu
I find Peterboroughs GTA trashing rather refreshing, bring it on.
As for the issue at hand. If the kind approach does not work, get a rag soaked in cat pee and put it in her wastepaper basket, until she acquiesces. Then mail it to wolfies residence. |
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try one of these on for size |
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donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | reply to snafu
I am in a No Scent Office. No one is allowed to wear perfume. |
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Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:4 | Now that you mention it, I've heard about some companies doing that. IIRC the Toronto school board introduced some such edict, too. I'm sure that wouldn't affect anyone wearing a subtle dab of scent that was almost undetectable, but some people seem to like to douse themselves in way that, if they were cartoon characters, they would be drawn with little wavy lines coming off them in all directions! There's just no excuse for that. |
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jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 | Every day, play videos of Pé Pé la Piew (sp?) as the oter person walks into the office. |
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