Perfumes…
May 5, 2008 at 10:04 am | In Uncategorized | 10 CommentsSo I can’t smell. Kinda. I don’t exactly have a strong since of smell. Its so bad that last week I caused an office offense by cooking garlic herbal chicken in the microwave and caused the whole building to come out to the kitchen and ban me from bringing my own lunch to work. The whole time the chicken was being nuked I didn’t even smell any of what my co-workers where talking about.
I say all this becuase yesterday I was at the mall (I love the apple store) and one of those market research firms where doing test on a new scent. As you can imagine I’m probably not the best person for the job but they didn’t need to know that. So they tell me to spray on this scent, Product 431. My first reaction to his was alarming. It stung my nose and made me tear up instantly. The researcher said “yeah, thats the response we’ve been getting alot of.” OMG!
So let me get this straight, some lab techs created this scent and smelled it themselves, got this reaction and still figured we need to do market research. I mean if I was one of these inventors I would have been curious and would have tried it out on myself first and made my way over to marketing to see if any of the ladies noticed. And I think if I got that reaction I wouldn’t exactly feel a need to subject that to other people.
I want to know what is your worst experience with testing products. I also want to know what are some of the microwave rules you have around your offices. (Besides no popcorn, thats standard now)
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Comment by Angela — May 5, 2008 #
Salmon! No reheating salmon in the office microwave. Apparently, it’s not a pleasant smell.
Comment by smuelaine — May 5, 2008 #
I have never heard a rule about popcorn. We have no rules about smells in my office. Some people bring Greek food that will make our whole office smell like Garlic for the next 28 hours.
Comment by Emily — May 5, 2008 #
Greek food is really bad but have you ever smelled “chitlins”?…OMG, it will make you gag!!! It’s the worst thing I’ve ever smelled. And people EAT IT! Gross! Ask Al about it…
Comment by Molly — May 5, 2008 #
I love to eat them but dang it if sauteed onions don’t smell like a bad case of B-O EVERYTIME someone puts them in the microwave!
Comment by Kim — May 5, 2008 #
Chitlins would be the worst!!!! After all, they are pig intestines. We don’t have a popcorn rule, and it’s cruel to ban people from eating popcorn. I personally am NOT a garlic fan at all. I’m in the minority – most people love it.
Comment by Kat — May 5, 2008 #
I think the no popcorn rule is b/c people tend to burn it. It’s happened several times at my work and it makes the whole place smell!
Comment by Mariana — May 6, 2008 #
unfortunatly, my office has NO rules about heating things in the microwave, but heating a boiled egg and eating it next to your co-worker is just plain mean!! and I had a horrible experience with testing produces once. the girl was doing the spraying, and had the bottle tilted towards my face! she sprayed the most awful old lady perfume right into my MOUTH, so I smelled (and tasted) 90 year old’s perfume all day! horrible.
Comment by AC — May 6, 2008 #
I was hit up by some guys in the mall at one of those little cart things selling products from the dead sea. So, they convince me to stick my arm out and allow them to rub some product on it. After a bit of rubbing, he points out all the nasty looking supposed dead skin coming off. He had the audacity to ask me if I had bathed or not. So, I had the audacity to tell him that that was not my week to bathe, that I was on the schedule to bathe next week. lol. And since he was foreign (from the Middle East), I don’t think he really ‘got’ my sarcasm and believed me. So, somewhere out there, there are a group of people talking about how nasty I am.
I SWEAR, I SHOWER EVERY DAY!!!
Comment by Jen — May 6, 2008 #
I was in the mall once and one of the makeup chicks called me over to test her products. I was bored so I did. Well she put makeup on HALF my face…”so i could see the difference” which was way too much makeup she put on and then she refused to do the other side. I had to end my shopping trip and go home to clean it all off. When I pulled up my husband looked at me like I was crazy!!
Comment by Kelly — May 7, 2008 #