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If it's who i'm thinking of he also sacks people on the spot for smelling of perfume or aftershave or anything smelly at all.
What is it with the smell thing?
The smell thing is actually written in the contract you sign when you start work. You are not to smell strongly of anything. He doesn't like it. I think it's because he does so much coke his nostrils have become super powerfull and he can smell all. If you do you get sacked.
Don't know how the scent thing works considering that certain customers appear to take pleasure in not washing or visiting the bog before patronising the establishment (I use bog with a particular emphasis).
I understand the rule about not wearing perfume. If I were a boss, I wouldn't fire people the first few times they came in smelling of perfume (or things that smell like perfume), but I'd certainly tell them to go take a shower and come back to work when they smell better.
I don't know the guy you're talking about, but I can tell you what perfume smells like to me, and maybe that will help you understand. Perfume smells absolutely horrible to me. It is the strongest scent I have ever smelled, as far as I can remember. If it's strong, the perfume scent makes me feel sick, literally, and it makes me feel like I can't breathe. I can't stand to be around it. The smell of poop is quite mild in comparision to the smell of perfume, as is the smell of vomit, and the smell of BO, and the smell of pretty much anything else I've ever smelled. If it's mild or if I don't have to be too near to the person wearing the perfume, I can generally tolerate it for as long as I need to, but it's fucking awful. I don't notice the smell of scented deodorants and stuff like that (well, for the most part. a friend recently gave me some spray on deodorant because I had lost my deodorant again and he was staying at my house, and I couldn't stand to use it). I understand that there are people to whom perfume smells good, and I wish that people who like perfume could understand that there are people to whom the smell of perfume is absolutely horrible. I know I'm in the minority. There are a lot of people that I have met who are in the majority as far as what perfume smells like to them, or what being tickled feels like to them, or whathaveyou, who seem to believe that their expirience of these sensations is some sort of objective expirience that all humans have, and who don't want to believe you when you tell them that what they're doing is hurting you. I'm not accusing you of being one of those people, and I can totally understand how people who are in the majority would think that someone's lying or exaggerating when they try to explain what it's like to be in a sensory minority. I've found perfume to be quite offensive for my entire life (it actually seems to have gotten a bit better as I've gotten older), and I doubt that it has anything to do with drug use in the case of the guy you're talking about (but obviously I don't know anything about him, and I don't really know very much about the long term effects of coke use, so I really shouldn't speculate on his particular sensitivity). I just thought I'd try to explain what perfume smells are like from my perspective. I hope you don't find this rude, as I'm not trying to be rude, but just trying to explain my perspective.
And to comment on the subject of the thread, I don't know why, but I always seem to have bosses that are more normal than I am, or who can at least hide their eccentricities better than I can, and I wish I could have more eccentric bosses. |
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