Comments on: “Portland sued for workplace fragrance use”

By: mojo

mojo — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:44:00 +0000

Psychosomatic, for $50

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:05:19 +0000

The action is voluntary, meaning that if someone wears aftershave or perfume, they won’t be fired on the spot. Instead a supervisor will take disciplinary action that could include making a note in the worker’s permanent file. It’s a three-strikes system wherein three fragrance offenses means the employee could be fired.

This is obviously the Orwellian definition of the word voluntary.

By: No Name Guy

No Name Guy — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:14 +0000

Sued for not enforcing a “voluntary” policy on a psychological “problem”. MCS is psychosomatic – these poor folks talk themselves sick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_chemical_sensitivity

“Blinded clinical trials have shown MCS patients react as often and as strongly to placebos, including clean air,[2][3] as they do to the chemicals they say harm them. This has led some in the healthcare profession to believe MCS symptoms are due to odor hypersensitivity[4] or are mainly psychological.”

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:10:30 +0000

None of this is new. Twenty-five years ago I was at a gaming session on Riverside Drive. One player apologized but said he had a nicotine addiction and so he had to smoke. Another said he was allergic to tobacco. The compromise was to open all the windows. On a cold February day with thirty-mile-an-hour winds whipping throughout.

Bob