Those demands might have been “bizarre” in 1974.
Artificial perfumes are air pollution, imho. Everyone’s clothes are reeking of this sickening overly-perfumed laundry soap and dryer sheets. Entire streets have unbreathable air at times. It’s a thing.
Does that include "ethnic" scents like curry or dead fish?
Or more likely it means White scents like Old Spice and Chanel #5?
So no Mary Kay saleswomen, then.
Replace them all with scabs and AI.
I’d say we could do without ‘em.
It seemed like the workplace was a lot saner when people could smoke indoors.
Smokes helped GIs on the battlefield (but I don’t think they do that anymore) and even beekeepers can quiet an aggravated nest with smoke.
Ban the bans and maybe sanity will return.
Normally, yes. But since it’s the New York Times, I would encourage the union to demand even more crazy stuff. For starters:
- Demand that every worker gets free slice of pizza every hour, the style of pizza to be determined by the employee. Include a free drink, too.
- Demand that every Wednesday be “Bingo Wednesday”. No one works on Wednesday afternoons. Instead everyone plays bingo. Each game will have a $100 cash prize, paid by the employer.
As both a student and a professor I am in agreement with the ban on strong smelling perfumes etc. Several colleagues and an dozens of my students have had alergic reactions including hives, swelling, itching etc.
How many of NYT’s software engineers are from out of the country?
I remember when the air traffic controllers went on strike, and Reagan fired them all. Problem solved.
There are a lot of journalists out of work these days who might be a little more grateful to have a job.
Wait, all that but they are OK with the brown M+Ms??!
Strike! It’s for da chitlings.
Ah yes, the entrance to hell known as the New York Times building with it’s demonic Satan worshipers complaining about perfume when all they want is the smell of sulfur and rotten eggs.
The little known secret is that the 9-11 terrorist really wanted to target the NY Times on 242 W 41st St, but Pinch Sulzberger (making a pact with the devil) was able to jam the airplane controls and force it to crash into the Twin Towers instead. Sulzberger owes Lucifer plenty.
Jeeze, and I thought ‘news’ happens 7 days a week not just 4?
And for this story, my first response is "why does even a large newspaper have that many "tech" employees?"
As for the demands " to 'decline work based on advertisers' and the 'right to request letters to the editor not be published' " they're proving themselves nutcases.
for a pix of "Kathy" Zhang, "The Times Tech Guild chair, See The Daily Mail article
If the NYT stopped working, would anyone notice?
scents in break rooms
Burn tea it smells the same a pot they will think they are happy power of suggestion at work works.
THERE IS A FICTION BOOK IN THERE SOMEWHERE