i used to have a desk next to a lady who seemed to wear gallons of a perfume that smelled like grain alcohol everyday. it was awful. but that was nothing compared to when i had a desk that was near the bathrooms and all the women would go in there and do their business and then spray half a can of lysol at it. the guys would just open the window and shut the door after they left, which worked out well enough.
there are few things that smell worse than a stinky shiat; grease traps, a rotting potato, Carrot Top's hair, but mixing lysol with a stinky shiat has to top them all.

The only thing worse than ambulance chasing lawyers are the juries that dole out this sort of ridiculous judgement. They can't distinguish the legal system from a lottery.

If she didn't go into anaphylaxis I call bull.

Like most ridiculous lawsuits, it'll be overturned on appeal. I doubt she'll ever see a dime.

10 Million!

That's a lot of stinking money.

10 million - lawyer fees = $3.50

Also, we don't need tort reform. We need less blatantly stupid juries.

sniff....

Someone stinks...!
oh wait that's me.

That just stinks!

"A short time after Weber began working at the country music station in March 1999, co-workers spilled nail polish remover in the studio, which she claims caused "raw chemical burns" to her airways and sinuses." Acetone? SHE COMPLAINS ABOUT TINY CONCENTRATIONS OF ACETONE? ARGH farkING STUPID.
You know the problem:
"A jury of six women..."
Texas women are stupid. Sorry, it's the truth.

WTF? TEN MILLION? I mean really... TEN MILLION?

/throws hands up in despair trying to figure out how that can merit TEN MILLION. She obviously didn't show up to work and was fired for performance... Not being at work seriously hinders ones performance... Digression... Anyway, sure she is alergic...but TEN MILLION? I say she loses the appeal when the company digs up the dirt... And they always have dirt... It's the nature of HR.

10 million - lawyer fees = $3.50

A lawyer that could pull that win off probably does charge that much.

I messed up in the lab once and got stanked with isovaleric acid which stuck around until the skin on my hands died and still nobody got a cent.

holy crap that's messed up

is this something where a jury would be involved? or just a dumbass judge?

are those chocolate covered pretzels?

/obvious

Wait a minute...Ten MILLION? I thought that comma was a DECIMAL POINT!

Now that's REALLY out of line.


well it depends on what her salary was before

I can deal with co-workers wearing buckets of cheap perfume or aftershave. However, a new co-worker of mine drowns himself in FRANKINCENSE. He smells like the carcass of a week old roast chicken and canned Kibbles & Bits sliced beef.

The farking court systems suck is so many ways. This is just another example.

I worked with a woman (actually a conversion) who was so ugly she hurt my eyes. I wish I'd know then that sensory offences can be converted to cash.

I wish I could get some money for the stinky CRAP I have to smell in the men's restroom at work. It's so freaking bad sometimes, that it literally COMES UP THROUGH THE FLOOR and we can smell it UPFREAKINGSTAIRS.

Ode de la cash.

Hm. I just cut a major fried shrimp fart and now *I* stink. And so do my boxers. And my shorts. And the seat of my chair.

I'm leaving now.

Ah yes, the wonderful litigious US judicial system seems to be alive and well.
The new American Dream: "Sue to get rich". Working hard is too much trouble.

Two things, really.

First, why does Infinity have to appeal? Why couldn't they state their case so elequently enough the first time around?

Second, who was that masked lawyer? It's a bummer, but I'm allergic to just about anything under the sun; this puts a real crimp in my ability to get out and spend any time at all in all the usual, suspect workplaces; and I could use some money.

"it smells like bigfoots dick!"

"it smells like a turd covered in burnt hair!"

In a related story, another Infinity employee was awarded 500 million for being unfunny.

Hoo hoo.

I was at a traffic light today and it took too long to turn green.

I'm going to sue the DOT tomorrow.

biglot:

First, why does Infinity have to appeal? Why couldn't they state their case so elequently enough the first time around?

Because a pool of people too stupid to get out of jury duty decided they didn't like her employer. When the employer appeals the case, they only have to deal with a judge.

NEVER... HIRE... WOMEN

/words to live by.

This is standard HR textbook crap.
Employee has a minor complaint. HR claims its the complaining employees fault/problem. HR refuses to solve said simple problem using cheap and easy to implement changes. HR ramps up said problem until employee can't show up for work due to said problem, even one day. HR fires employee for "not showing up to work", claims they never got that call in sick message. HR claims employee actually "quit" to the state so said employee can't collect unemployment and HR doesn't get penalized by the state for it. HR crosses fingers that they won't get sued
in one of the court systems they have stacked in their favor (work comp, EEOC etc.) If they do get sued they claim moral superiority and that their word is worth more
than the employees. HR comes out unscathed, employee gets screwed on job loss and bad mark on career.
Sound like I know this all to well? Want a list of people I know who have had this done to them??
Its a cost savings technique - you could be next.

Good for her. More women need to realize that one tiny dab of good perfume will last longer and smell better than 6 squirts of some cheap shiat. Same with men. Stop splashing Old Spice all over your farking head.

some information that will have you suing every skunkfume wearing wh--- out there.
many years ago some dimwit at the chemical perfume ranch added another chemical to make the skunkfume last longer. problem is it also caused many of these skunks and other people to develop first time asthma.

and for all you skunks out there...TAKE A FREAKIN BATH...we can still smell your skank body odor...

I've always wondered about people who wear so much cologne/perfume. Do they actually think it smells good to others? If others can smell you from 5 feet away, you're wearing too much perfume.

SpudMills: Stop splashing Old Spice all over your farking head.

knew a trailer loader like this. could smell wear he rode about on his forklift.

and why is it that small booths have the rankest perfume wears in them. geeez. can't even get within 3 feet of the service window.

You can say "STUPID" all you want. Yes, it probably is stupid, but you just have to say a little cheer for this decision if you have ever sat next to some teenie-bopper reeking like a sack of rotten fruit.

Smells like the inside of a fake leg!

/Sex Panther strikes again

Bullshiat

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I'm so sick of juries in this country being farking retarded. People are idiots.

Can't be that "Stupid" if she took on such a seemingly-frivalous(sp?) lawsuit and actually won it.

NEVER hire women who reek of stinking perfume. The hell these fem bots have put me through..You know they aren't washing properly if they have to dump a bottle of El Cheapo over their head every morning.

Never hire men who stink like goats because they don't bathe or don't use Mennen. There's this project manager at my job. The other day I was stopped cold at his office door by an invisible wall of funk. It was all I could do to not gag and faint dead away. OMG the farker must have no sense of smell..he stinks like a rotting heap of sour pits. I can't believe HIS boss doesn't notice? IT'S REALLY BAD

The ladies like to use lysol in the ladies room at my job too. It's bad, but I'd rather deal with that than the perfume. or the farts.

and you know what else coworkers, while we are on the subject Brush your farking teeth once in a while Nothing worse that talking to a coworker and that miasma of foulness they exude from their maw wafts over you...........

For the record, what she got $10 million for was discrimination committed by a major American company. Will it be reduced? Maybe.

Does she deserve it? 6 people get to make that decision in our system. Biatch all you want.

this doesn't make any sense. Michigan is an at will employment state. technically, employers can fire anyone for whatever reason they so desire.

For instance, a lansing based insurance company recently fired 5 or so people because they were smokers.

/discrimination my arse.

MedusaOne:

This is standard HR textbook crap.
Employee has a minor complaint. HR claims its the complaining employees fault/problem. HR refuses to solve said simple problem using cheap and easy to implement changes. HR ramps up said problem until employee can't show up for work due to said problem, even one day. HR fires employee for "not showing up to work", claims they never got that call in sick message. HR claims employee actually "quit" to the state so said employee can't collect unemployment and HR doesn't get penalized by the state for it. HR crosses fingers that they won't get sued


did you RTFA? They moved her schedule around and asked the other employee not to wear that perfume, she is just a greedy biatch who needs to be t-boned by a dump truck.

poorjon what does isovaleric acid smell like?

/can't be good if you had to wait for the skin on your hand to slough off before it went away...