Comments on: Think before you spritz, part 2

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:51:00 +0000

Nor tight skirts and a lot of cleavage, but it happens. I should sue my secretary for trying to seduce me. She also belongs to the KKK.

It doesn't bother the boss man, so it won't be handled internally.

If you are truly concerned with freedom of expression, where do you draw the line? No-one has the right to deliberately inflict injury to another person. My scent defines me, I make a statement with it. But if it causes harm..REAL harm, I would cease and desist.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:08:00 +0000

Hearing the Police, Bowie and U2 to muzak is a hard pill to swallow!

Something soothing, (Ravel, Debussy, Dvorak) perhaps would work? Good to stay away from Wagner, at least for shopping.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:00 +0000

Hard to say based on what little we know from the newspapers if anybody actually abdicated personal responsibility here or if the parties involved simply could not agree.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:27:00 +0000

I don't like the loud music, and also don't like hearing the iconic music of my youth used as muzak for people shopping for hamburger patties…see, i can do crankypants too!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:52:00 +0000

This story is loaded with issues, one of which really burns me up. That's the abdication of personal responsibility.

One of those women is responsible for being considerate of her workmates and not “gassing” them out of the place. (Spritz LESS and lose the Glade Plug-In!) But the other is responsible for sorting it out in a civilised manner and not resorting to the law. If neither of those courses works, their employer is responsible for sorting it out once and for all. No court time, no clogging up the system, no huge lawyer fees.

“Personal Expression” has limits – that's why we made laws in the first place… But the law is not your father or mother either, and shouldn't be treated as such. So these people should suck it up and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. And be polite and considerate of one another while you're at it.

(I remember reading a suggestion once years ago that if a judge deems a case to be silly or vexatious, the lawyer(s) brining the case should have to pay all the fees incurred. So it wouldn't just be “no foal, no fee,” but also “silly case, you pay the bills not the people you're suing, or your client.” Now THAT would sort out the legal system in a matter of weeks!)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:10:00 +0000

Actually, I've thought of this before but while shopping this past weekend I realized that the ridiculously loud music they play in a lot of retail stores is what makes me more edgy than anything else — I'm sure there've been a zillion corporate focus groups showing that loud music boosts sales or something, but I think it's a certifiable blight. There… I've gotten that crankypants rant off my chest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:54:00 +0000

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. There isn't anything in the constitution that gives you a legal right to wear perfume to work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:50:00 +0000

I suppose if you wore the same fragrance so long that it gave you olfactory fatigue, your spouse might have the same problem — they wouldn't smell it anymore.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:49:00 +0000

Wish I could get my local supermarket to turn off the annoying music…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:03:00 +0000

“Death By Perfume” – I love it. That shall be the title of my next book.

I also have been around people who do not bath. Human funk (if some niche company hasn't bottled it by now) is my least favorite.

And a law should be made there to hose them down!