Woman lost job for wearing too much perfume

[Prudence]

I'm so torn. Sure, some people bathe in scent and it's just like anything else inappropriate - they need to stop or leave. BUT, I've also been in workplaces where some members of staff ganged up on others, where one complaint early on snowballed into a flurry of other, unjustified complaints - even when the original behavior stopped, and even a perfume incident.

One of my coworkers received a complaint about her perfume from a faculty member, and honestly we were mystified, as none of us even knew she wore perfume and we spent lots of time around her. No one else in the suite knew she was wearing perfume. She "confessed" that that she did the "spray, delay, walk away" technique, QE junky that she was, so technically she was "guilty." We weren't a perfume-free workplace. The coworker stopped wearing perfume, of course, but the faculty member still complained until the coworker was moved to a different suite - and replaced with someone else who wore perfume.

So, I agree - not enough facts in the story. In theory it's a perfectly valid reason to fire someone. In reality, whenever there's an illegal or inappropriate reason to fire someone they come up with an allegedly valid reason for cover.