I’m a permanent resident working in USA.I lived in USA for about 13 years now.
Ever since I moved here from Europa I’m constantly confronting local people and they customs.There are highly intolerant.

First I took any confrontation and try to adjust to any request or bulling coworkers to keep peas and get the job done.
Most of it was about my appearance and smell,my type of food,smell of my healthy home cooked meals….i can go on and on.What normally was acceptable to construction work place in Europa where sweat is natural and body odor is temporary but totally reasonable companion in hard work load areas,become here torn in everybody eye and nose.

Long story short: I adjusted to this .And I Found fragrance that if i do brake a sweat covers my body odor.I refuse to ware any anti respiratory stuff for solid reasons,,,another article may be.

Patchouli worked grate!
Until now 10 years later I get really bad feedback from only few coworkers(they are generally unhappy people regardless what comes to they way)
Patchouli even is smallest douses provokes them.

I’m tired of adjusting to everyone here.
Get life and be more tolerant!! all of you ,really try that.
If you think you have to put up with something believe me someone smell or appearance is nothing what some aliens have to put up with in means of non tolerance from others.

So now I’m not only hard worker,and intelligent contribution to any employer.But I ware unstained clean close compare to previous stained clean close.
And is smell as patchouli that I use tiny amount. the small container of size of lipstick lasts me whole year.

And if you do not like it,you can ask me nicely or be mean about it.I will listen and think about it but,
I doubt after all these years i will change any more just for someone unstable,intolerant nature.

So to some of you out there(10% of general population) that just can not let go of someone, may be sometimes irritating differences of others.

I say this:Me, no thank you. I keep my ways and thank you for asking.My smell is from natural source and I like it.

I’m sorry that it bothers you.But if I have to put up with your attitude(that you have regardless of my intervention) you will have to put up with my patchouli smell.By the way: some like 90% like my smell or cant smell it at all or just go on and tolerate it with out any problems so can you.

Dekuji a Naschledanou.

Whey don’t they take the smokers and put them in one area, take all the non smokers and put them in another and the same with the perfume wearers and sprayers.

There are about 100 people in our office department. Many of them spray perfumes and it is starting to make me ill.

I have already talked to the friend beside me and asked her not to wear as much of the perfume she is wearing, LOL I think she just puts more on.

I had to get a fan to blow the fumes and vapors away from me or I will keep coughing all day and my sinues act up from the smell or the toxic chemicals I should say.

I don’t know if anyone in congress will do anything about it or not, but something has got to be done for workers in the work place regarding the toxic environment it is causing.

As Susie pointed out, it is not the smell that makes people sick after exposure to fragrances (as bothersome as the smell itself may be) but the toxic chemicals contained within the fragrances (endocrine disruptors, neurotoxins, etc.)

The fact that only some have significant reactions in the short-term to such products does not mean these products are safe for others. In fact, the long-term effects impact everyone.

Some people are just more sensitive than others and they react on the spot whereas others may think they’ve escaped unscathed – when in reality their health some been negatively impacted as well.

Having fainted in public places on many occasions after exposure to items my body simply couldn’t handle, I can’t thank you enough for posting this informative article!

Jeanne
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