OK. I can
understand that. In a perfect world, that's how it would work.
She was an office
worker with years of experience and education in her field. Unfortunately,
every office she went in had employees who wore perfumes and other scented
products, copy machines, felt pens, janitorial products, etc. Did this stop
her? Nope. She'd apply for the next job, get it, start having health issues,
and immediately demand accommodation. If it was slow in coming (and it's always
a slow process), she'd contact the EEOC and file complaints. Subsequently,
she'd have to quit, go back on disability, lay low until disability ran out, and
then she'd start the cycle again.
I have to
applaud her fortitude and her desire to affect change, one office at a time, but
I don't know where she got the energy to constantly want to fight someone. I
don't know why she'd want to put herself in a situation that would compromise
her health, over and over and over again. I don't know where she found so many
jobs that didn't do a background check or required references from all her
previous jobs. Certainly she'd
eventually run out of offices to harass. Well, last I heard she moved to
another city.
I'm not sure
if she was in denial, stubborn, ignorant, or just an extrovert. I suggested
many times to find another career or find a way to work from home, but she
claimed she had a right to work in an office like everyone else. Hey, I've worked in an office. What's the
attraction???
OK. Whatever.
Have fun. It wouldn't be my kind of fun. One bad accommodation experience was
enough to last me a whole lifetime.
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