{"id":1809,"date":"2008-11-26T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2008-11-25T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T21:55:37","slug":"fragrance-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/11\/fragrance-follies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragrance Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com\/2008\/11\/18\/in-the-elevator-with-too-much-fragrance\/?sc_extcmp=JP_Mail_THS_Fragrance\" target=\"_blank\">CareerBuilder.com has a post<\/a> regarding an overuse of perfume and cologne by employees.\u00a0 The author asks a good question:<\/p>\n<p>Apart from sharing the story, I\u2019m writing this to ask how you think managers should handle \u201cstrong fragrance\u201d issues in the workplace. It seems like a sensitive issue because people wearing the cologne or perfume must not realize that it is SO noticeable for the people around them.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be a little crass &#8211; I heard a funny story from a sales manager we met with yesterday.\u00a0 He used to work for a company where he was a sales manager for one territory and there was another gentleman who handled the other territory.\u00a0 This other sales manager had a relatively cold office so he tended to keep his door shut to warm it up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, one day our guy is interviewing a woman for a salesperson position and when he is done, he walks her down to the other sales manager&#8217;s office so that he can interview her too.\u00a0 The door is closed so our guy knocks and then walks in with the sales candidate.<\/p>\n<p>It took a second, but then the overwhelming funk from the other sales manager&#8217;s flatulence hit both our guy and the woman candidate.\u00a0 They both stopped in their tracks while the sales manager turned beat red.<\/p>\n<p>Our guy, ever quick on his feet, said, &#8220;Ok, let&#8217;s do this interview in the conference room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder.com has a post regarding an overuse of perfume and cologne by employees.\u00a0 The author asks a good question: Apart from sharing the story, I\u2019m writing this to ask how you think managers should handle \u201cstrong fragrance\u201d issues in the workplace. It seems like a sensitive issue because people wearing the cologne or perfume must not realize that it is SO noticeable for the people around them. Let me be a little crass &#8211; I heard a funny story from a sales manager we met with yesterday.\u00a0 He used to work for a company where he was a sales manager for one territory and there was another gentleman who handled&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/11\/fragrance-follies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16,10],"tags":[1108,1107,1106,1109],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-tb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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