Posted on 11/28/2008 3:50:26 PM PST by Oyarsa
DETROIT—A federal judge says a Detroit city employee can proceed with a civil suit claiming she couldn't work because of a co-worker's strong perfume. The Detroit News says U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff determined Susan McBride has a potential claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The city is asking to have the suit dismissed.
McBride says she's severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics. She says the perfume worn by a co-worker in the city's Planning Department made it difficult for her to breathe.
She says the co-worker also used a plugged in room deodorizer.
The suit says the co-worker later agreed to stop using the room deodorizer but kept using perfume.
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Perfumed candles also give me a problem, but if the weather is warm, and my allergies are not in sensitivity mode, I can burn the scented ones.
Also, sometimes allergies do manifest themselves later in life. I used to never have a problem around cats until the last 25 years, (I am now 60)and now I know if there’s a cat in the house without ever having seen the cat. My throat starts tickling, and my eyes begin itching and watering.
Well, I am irritated by the horrendous body odor of the hippies who live in my area who don’t bathe, use deodorant, and have stinky dreadlocks.
I live in No. California by the way.
To me they smell worse than any perfume.
I don’t think I can do anything about my hippie liberal problem.
I wear perfume, not a lot of it, just one spray. I wouldn’t stop wearing it just because someone asks me to.
Now if there is a very serious medical issue that is proven, I might stop, but otherwise no.
Why do we have to keep fighting for our individual rights?
Yes, some perfumes are lovely. That’s the kind I wear. I am always complimented on my perfume. One time while visiting Minnesota (from Canada) a young lady in Penske’s asked me about it. She was so disappointed to find out she could not buy it in the US. When I got back home I sent her some. She emailed me when she ran out and I sent her some more. It was quite fun - she was so sweet and had the same name as my daughter.
OOOps, #40 was for you. The aroma might about as unpleasant, though.
first they came for the tobacco smells..........
Nanny State Ping.
This was only a matter of time folks. I can’t stand heavy perfumes, and have had allergic reactions to some, but the idea of going to court over such just never crossed my mind, nor would it even though I’ve been seeing it happen more and more frequently.
It can be incapacitating. Allergies can lead to asthma attacks, and while I’m not allergic, it’s a migraine trigger. If people were remotely considerate, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Believe me, it’s tough to ask, and I’ve only had one person make a big deal about it.
My life can be very painful and I wish it was different, but it is what it is.
I knew a guy who had to work in the same area as a woman who wore heavy doses of industrial strength cheap perfume. He had problems with his wife who could smell it on him when he went home.
What would you accept as proof?
Give me a smoker over a perfume wearer, any day.
Each time the person left my office, I’d go down to their’s and light up.
They got the hint after a few times. Geez, I could’a sued, instead.
Nahh...just feed ‘em peanuts, the allergic reaction will slam their windpipe shut and they’ll be quivering like a beached whale...liberals are like that,they all think they are allergic to peanuts now, it’s an empathetic thing....I’m sure it’ll be ruled a suicide or accident.
Ever wonder what some of these people would smell like without the perfume?
I told an intern who works for me to stop bathing in Ralph Lauren cologne on Tuesday... If he wants to keep his job.
I’m not paying him $10/hour to make me sneeze and annoy me.
If fragrant, aromatic tobacco smoke was allowed to be generated in that workplace, maybe the perfumery would not be an issue.
Pull up her application paperwork. If she didn’t list her allergies to perfume under the “Do you have any physical or mental ailments that may affect your work performance” catergory, she doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on. Not to mention she can be fired because she lied on her application.
I am personally offended and adversely affected by that second-hand microwave popcorn.
I also don't like to look at the fat chicks that cook and eat it.
There, all fixed and complete.
Back years ago, before all the anti-smoker bans and most of the anti-smoker nonsense, I used to work with a guy that was just rank. No other word can describe the guy. We worked at a radio station and every studio had a can of Lysol in it.
The Lysol was just for general use because of the mikes -— but anyone who went into a studio after this guy would spray the entire studio down because it stunk so bad. He was also one of the few non-smokers on the staff and the very first anti-smoker I ever encountered. He never said a word about the smokers and smoking in the AM or FM studios, or the production or interview studios, but constantly whined abut me smoking in the newsroom.
He never took the hints, and not very subtle ones, that his odor was offensive to the rest of us. That ended when he brought and “air cleaner” into the newsroom so he could tolerate the cigarette odor. I asked him where he got the contraption so we could buy them for each of the studios to get rid of his offensive odors. Nope, not subtle at all on my part.
He still hadn’t cleaned up his act by the time I left, but no one had to put up with his incessent whining about smokers after that day.
I’m so sorry -— I meant to ping you to my post #59
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