Well, how about the manly scents of 1.) Tranny fluid; and 2.) a hockey rink!
Posted on 03/14/2010 5:20:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono
DETROIT, - City officials in Detroit say workers at three city buildings will soon have to monitor their scents or face possible warnings.
The Detroit News said Sunday that placards will be put up in the three Detroit buildings detailing the new guidelines on employees' use of such scented items as cologne or perfume.
The notices due at the Cadillac Square Building, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center and First National Building will also ask employees to refrain from using air fresheners and scented candles while on the job.
The new regulations are the result of the city's settlement of a 2008 lawsuit filed by a city planner, who claimed she had breathing sensitivity due to a co-worker's perfume.
Attorney Ann Curry Thompson, who represents city planner Susan McBride, said her client's lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act could prove beneficial to others, the report said.
"It's unique. I think it should be used as a model for other people who are having similar problems," Thompson told the News.
I advise my daughters to put a drop of that behind each ear to attract the “right” men.
I don’t wear cologne, but, any am occaisionally annoyed by someone elses, but anyone so weak that they become ill from breathing a non-toxic perfume or cologne, should not be going out in the world. Instead they should be at home in a clean room, with a state of the art air purification system, and perhaps, padded walls.
Nope, didn’t see this one coming.
I find it very sad that we have clearly transitioned from a self sufficient poeple to a people dependent on the government. It used to be that if someone knew of a risk to their breathing, or a risk to run into an offensive odor, they figured out how to avoid it in their everyday lives. It is amazing that they did this ON THEIR OWN.
I’ve never understood why some people wear scents that are so repulsive. I can’t imagine that they actually enjoy it. Ironically, the worse the scent the greater the amount they pour on.
They couldn’t find a human to demonstrate that product?
Well, how about the manly scents of 1.) Tranny fluid; and 2.) a hockey rink!
Automatic transmissions are for sissies ;-)
I wonder if they had to send to Calgary for a back up Zamboni?
Anyone who thinks this is ok is not a conservative. The government has no business banning scents such as cologne and perfume. If the workers in a business are so upset by them they should see the owner of the business and get him to ban them. The government, city, state or feds, have no constitutional authority to ban them, anymore than they have the right to ban smoking.
There is a big difference. While the scent-nazis might be able to ban cologne in the offices of people with “sensitive respiratory systems”, it is impossible to make the whole world “safe” for them.
Also, people confined to wheelchairs actually have a real physical disability. They are not in those wheelchairs because they are too persnickity to walk.
Perhaps ther are a tiny number of people out there who are physically sickened by perfume, but 99.9% are just whiners who don’t like the unpleasant scents, or have a psychological disorder and are at no medical risk.
I feel bad for the 0.1%, but a much higher percentage of the population have allergies to various things, and we can’t purify the world’s air supply of all those allergans to accommodate them.
Fine, fine, whatever. I give you the manliest scent of all, the undeniable winner of the scent debate...
wait for it...
Napalm. Smells like... Victory.
That’ll work.
Fair enough. Voluntary courtesy, or even employer mandated courtesy on a case by case basis is fine with me. I just don’t want the goverment banning perfume, then deodorant, then soap, and so on.
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