What is it about smells? In May, the AT&T "office-employee fridge" at a California call center was in trouble. A worker decided to clean the refrigerator that was full of odoriferous, rotten food left by co-workers who never thrown food away. The trouble began when she used, not one, but two cleaning chemicals. The mixture, combined with the odor of "rotting flesh" (probably someone's ham sandwich left there for weeks), caused 28 co-workers to become nauseous and vomit non-stop. Someone called 911 between upchucks and 325 employees had to evacuate the building. Then 50 firefighters and 18 emergency vehicles raced to the scene. Ambulances took 7 to the hospital AND a hazmat team had to be called. How much money to you suppose all that cost we-the-taxpayers? Ethic Soup blog has a good article on the incident at:
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What is it about smells? In May, the AT&T "office-employee fridge" at a California call center was in trouble. A worker decided to clean the refrigerator that was full of odoriferous, rotten food left by co-workers who never thrown food away. The trouble began when she used, not one, but two cleaning chemicals. The mixture, combined with the odor of "rotting flesh" (probably someone's ham sandwich left there for weeks), caused 28 co-workers to become nauseous and vomit non-stop. Someone called 911 between upchucks and 325 employees had to evacuate the building. Then 50 firefighters and 18 emergency vehicles raced to the scene. Ambulances took 7 to the hospital AND a hazmat team had to be called. How much money to you suppose all that cost we-the-taxpayers? Ethic Soup blog has a good article on the incident at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/05/att-calls-911-cleaning-fridge-of-rotten-food-sickens-office.html
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