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fairy22
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posted January 26, 2013 11:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fairy22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I work in a call center and they just added air freshner which is very toxic and has made me very sick. If they continue I won't be able to continue working there. I don't know exactly what to do. I was going to go to HR ask for the department that takes care of this and explain my situation and give some document showing the dangers.

Does anyone know what to do, if you have a position in your company where you know how to handle a situation like this.

This is a call center and we have clients information - so they just implimented some rules. One of them is we have to keep our coats in a locker - but the problem is that it's a big call center and 3 small cupboards. Most of the people smoke and it smells so bad. They put in the cupboards air freshners or more like poison to keep bugs away + air fresher in one. Anyways, I don't even know if it is that because it seems to be coming from the vents in the air...

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posted January 26, 2013 12:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fairy22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It seems more like chemicals coming from somewhere.

I went home last night and the smell was still on me. I became very sick. I realized when I woke up in the middle of the night the only way to remove these chemicals was to take a shower.

When I got back to my bed the chemicals/particles were in my covers, sheets, pillow case and I would have to wash everything. So that meant in was on my cloths and coat. (By the way I did not put my coat in the cupboard I wore it all day instead - if you're cold you can wear it.) My coat is artificial fur beautiful and new now these chemicals are on my coat and it spread to every thing it touched, the cloths I wore... It's that strong. When I took my show at 2am that night, I originally thought I would just soak and the chemicals would come off. But I rubbed my scalp with water for a long time and it was still there. I realize then I would have to wash my hair and also that the particles were mostly in my hair so it had to come from vents - you could just smell it in the air, but you can't see the usual air fresheners on the wall and so on!


This is really dangerous, I had experience with this before in a 5plex I lived, the lady put an air freshener in our porch and wouldn't remove it even though she knew it made me sick - and it was an industrial one, very powerful. So I researched it and to my surprise my symptoms were exactly the same that was documented, the harmful effects on the body were the same I was experiencing.


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posted January 26, 2013 12:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fairy22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What should I do!? I can't afford to leave my job. Another thing is most companies are the same.

I know even with the documentation from research they won't change. Maybe if all the employees complained, it bothers some, but most spend their day laughing and joking, no matter what they see happening around them and what the consequences might be.

It is so - SCARY this procedure from upper management seems more of a ploy to repress and keep the employees down. Their rules don't even make sense and don't work. I remember once in a company in a similar situation - I thought to myself - the employees are saying yes yes and the management says and we will take your first born - yes yes...

These managers have no power and the managers are chosen not for their intelligence but for the opposite. They have no brains but are specifically chosen because they don't think and can just enforce any rules and basically can't even hold a conversation that makes sense or is intelligent that leads to truth, facts and knowledge. Don't get me wrong I am not speaking about all managers/supervisors just in this company, you know how it is.

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posted January 26, 2013 12:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
^^

I can commiserate in that I've been exposed to corporate & office culture and found it nonsensical at best and how people who kiss butt are raised to their level of incompetence. For that reason I won't work in one (I volunteered to help in one last Halloween but I doubt I'll even do that ever again).

I suppose if I was in your sitch I might try to slip in the word "lawyer" or "lawsuit" (the best way would be to reference successful litigation involving the matter without actually threatening to repeat such litigation saying, if asked, "I'm sure it won't come to that, we're reasonable people"), though the risk of that is that you can be blackballed (poor performance reviews no matter what, etc) and fired as advised by the company lawyers (though at least in CA they won't do much more than confirm you work there if asked by later potential employers as they're risking a lawsuit if they give you a bad reference without a very compelling reason). 'Course if you have an allergy that's going to make it impossible to stay anyway then that risk wouldn't seem to matter.

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posted January 26, 2013 12:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another possibility that comes to mind is to make an anonymous report (hopefully documented) to the appropriate environmental office or even college who might find a reason to show up and do some tests. Be very careful about giving them your name if you do this, however. I'd actually do it without them even being able to recognize my face like through a friend so that they couldn't wave at me during a surprise inspection.

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posted January 26, 2013 01:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fairy22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My only hope is Lindaland

This is serious we have no power and so many pollutants are around us killing us and everyone conforms...

In this company this week where I live it was -20 to -30 Fahrenheit outside and the company had air conditioning on and it is directly over me and it was on full blast, of course I got really sick.

And this is happening everywhere... There is so much I could say that is damaging our health and no one is fighting back or hard enough or strong enough and our lives are in danger.

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posted January 29, 2013 04:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fairy22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you PixieJane for your good advice I will keep it in mind!


I can commiserate in that I've been exposed to corporate & office culture and found it nonsensical at best and how people who kiss butt are raised to their level of incompetence. For that reason I won't work in one (I volunteered to help in one last Halloween but I doubt I'll even do that ever again).


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You're lucky you have that option of not working in an office environment. I wish I could find something suited to me like in health and healing, or maybe some work at home on my computer!

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