So, the gist of this story is that a woman working in some Fort Worth call center hellhole sprayed perfume. Since they are jammed together like laying hens in an egg factory, two people took offense and complained. Word got around, and since the call center workers have heard news tales about people in California claiming perfume allergies (California being a hotbed for discovering new afflictions), a much larger group started seeing dollar signs, claimed breathing trouble, and called 911. Trying to defuse the mutiny, management announced anyone who felt bad could leave. Nearly everyone who works at a call center feels bad nearly every day, so they left.
DUmmies, most of whom can only dream of a call center career, believe it all to be legitimate.
Kadie (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 10:45 PM
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34 hospitalized after co-worker sprays perfume
(07-29) 17:43 PDT Fort Worth, Texas (AP) --
At first, fire officials suspected that carbon monoxide or some other toxic fumes had sickened almost 150 people at a Texas bank call center. It turned out that perfume was to blame.
MedStar ambulance spokeswoman Lara Kohl says 34 people were taken to hospitals, 12 by ambulance, after reporting dizziness and shortness of breath Wednesday at a Bank of America call center in Fort Worth. An additional 110 were treated at the scene.
Fort Worth fire Lt. Kent Worley said the incident started with two people complaining about dizziness after a co-worker sprayed perfume. Others reported being sick when an announcement was made that anyone with similar symptoms should exit the building.
Investigators do not know what type of perfume was sprayed.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/0...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6182695Kadie (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 10:51 PM
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2. LOL
I wonder if they will ever say what type of perfume it was. Sure wouldn't be very good advertising for whatever it is.
These DUmmies really believe the perfume was a factor.
Kadie (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 11:07 PM
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17. Some perfumes really bother me too.
Christmas time is the worst. Everyone gets their new cologne and has to try it out. Then I am on the phone to the doctor getting medicine so I can breathe.
DUmmy Kadie calls in sick a lot.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 10:57 PM
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10. I'd rather whiff welding fumes than most perfumes..
There are a lot of perfumes that for some reason seem to make my throat close up and restrict my breathing, the stuff in the OP would appear to be a bit more potent than normal.
Finally, a single DUmmy, a noob who may well be a Lousy Freeper Troll, begins to catch on:
Ewellian (288 posts) Wed Jul-29-09 10:59 PM
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14. Umm...I suspect that the
perfume wasn't the real reason people were fleeing the building.
Have you ever worked in a call center?
