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Monday, March 15 2010 - 08:21 PM
Scentless Decision
Remember Tim Burton’s first “Batman” movie, the 1989 version with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson? One of the Joker’s pranks was the “cosmetics scare” in which people became afraid to use deodorant, or cologne, perfume or after-shave for fear of contamination? It wasn’t long before people were looking, and presumably smelling, pretty rank.
Well, now employees of the City of Detroit, and possibly others around the country, will have the opportunity to play that scene for real. As a result of a federal lawsuit, officials have opted to place placards in city buildings urging employees to avoid “wearing scented products, including … colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions … (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners.”
The Detroit News is reporting that the decision stems from a $100,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague’s perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. As a consequence, the city’s employee handbook and Americans with Disabilities Act training also will bear similar warnings.
Clearly, change is in the air for Detroit city workers. Perhaps coming soon to a city near you?
PKShaw says...
It’s just this kind of thing that gives strength to the Tea Party movement.
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AVSkyEye says...
The “Tea Party” movement? WTF does that have to do with this story?
Illustrates my take on the teabaggers: lets just be angry about every little thing that annoys one in life—politics we disagree on, cultural events we don’t agree on, silly news stories, anything—and call ourselves a “party”….unified in reality only by the fact that we’re angry/upset/annoyed.
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Have Faith says...
How nice. The gangs all here, just like always. Fd up the blog went down when I had all the time in the world. Point is, cologne makes people sick. Also annoying. The closer quarters we live and work in the more it requires courtesy.
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PKShaw says...
If someone has an allergy to scented products they can, and should, ask co-workers to refrain from using such products. A co-worker of my husband had this problem so I went and found unscented hand lotion for him to keep at his desk. Most people are understanding and will comply.
There is no reason to ban scented products from every workplace, presumably even from those where there are no allergic people. Just another nanny government over-reaction.
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Sovereignty Soldier says...
03/15/10 – 09:43 PM
AVSkyEye says…
The “Tea Party” movement? WTF does that have to do with this story?
Illustrates my take on the teabaggers: lets just be angry about every little thing that annoys one in life—politics we disagree on, cultural events we don’t agree on, silly news stories, anything—and call ourselves a “party”….unified in reality only by the fact that we’re angry/upset/annoyed
Yeah, your right. When government oversteps it’s bounds and invades our private lives, we should just shut up and go along. When they violate the constitution, we should just look the other way. When they allow Wall Street to loot our country and systematically destroy our dollar but let our #1 manufacturing jobs and employers go bankrupt, we should just sigh and say “that’s just how politics work”, huh? You would have been a “Loyalist” during the revolution, saying the colonists were just “whining babies who don’t want to pay tax”!
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Ray Cunneff says...
I suppose I should add that this is not a joke, however funny (unless you’re a city worker in Detroit).
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