I don't like the way some people look, or dress or what they say when they talk.
I live with it.
I actually feel sick to my stomach when I smell the breath of someone who smokes cigarettes and drinks coffee.
Do you think they will stop doing these things when I tell them how sick it makes me feel.
Of course not. I would be lucky not to get punched in the nose.
There will be no way you can stop everyone around you from wearing artificial scents. Even some shampoos put off a very loud odor. Are you going to tell them to stop washing their hair.
Sorry, this is a personal rights issue. You have the right to move away from these people that offend you and they have a right to smell the way they want.
Do you have a right to hit me and injure me? Would you not get charged with assault?
Then tell me how your intentionally doing something that you know is harming someone any different?
No, it's no just a rights issue. It's a major health issue for many.
So you have a right to live how you want but nobody else does? Why do your rights get to trump others? What makes you so special that you feel that you should have your own way but nobody else can?
About those people I would wish these kinds of problems on just so they can see what it's like. You can be at the top of the list; followed closely by the others with your callous attitude.
You are correct, it is a personal rights issue. I have the personal right to be able to work with out getting migraine headaches.
The company has exactly 4 choices
1) Move her.
2) Move me.
3) Tell/ force her not to wear the perfume
4) Get sued for not choosing one of the above
Ask yourself this. Lets say it was another sense that was being "offended" ie. music played so loud that one of more people could not work, or someone flashing a strobe light that caused another employee to have an epileptic seizure.
The company must intervene.
Seriously ask the HR lawyer where you work.
What if you are in court?
But I'll take it a step further. While the offending triggers bring on a painful and expen$ive migraine for me, it's not a condition unto death. My cousin's sister-in-law, however, launches into an asthma attack. Some of those attacks have landed her in the ER fighting for her next breath. She did end up having to quit her job. Fortunately, she's got a husband who makes a handsome living, so a job is not an absolute necessity for her. Some of us are not so fortunate. We are our sole source of income. That said, if our personal right to breathe air that doesn't make us sick is so offensive to you, please consider paying me a salary to stay home and out of everyone's way. Or if you can't afford that, maybe you'll consider paying for my prescription.
It's just horrible that you should have to endure that.
Those coffee-drinking cigarette smokers need to die.