http://www.tangognat.com/2005/02/23/please-go-away-aromatic-security-guard/ Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:03:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.tangognat.com/2005/02/23/please-go-away-aromatic-security-guard/#comment-4078 tangognat Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:11:30 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/?p=586#comment-4078 I don't know if my library has a policy about this or not. Also, the guard is employeed by the University, not by my library directly...I'm hoping that the wackyness was just due to it being his first week on the job. I don’t know if my library has a policy about this or not. Also, the guard is employeed by the University, not by my library directly…I’m hoping that the wackyness was just due to it being his first week on the job.

]]> http://www.tangognat.com/2005/02/23/please-go-away-aromatic-security-guard/#comment-4077 Tanuki Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:15:11 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/?p=586#comment-4077 Your library doesn't have a policy in place mandating that no staff member in a public area (and by preference no one at all!) is to wear perfume? (Or any perfumed substance -- the guard's aftershave, e.g.) I thought that was fairly standard. You are far from the only person who is allergic, and libraries really don't need patrons suing them for causing asthma attacks. Or having their own workers down all the time with asthma attacks, for that matter ... Been there, done that, durn near coughed my lungs out. :-( Your library doesn’t have a policy in place mandating that no staff member in a public area (and by preference no one at all!) is to wear perfume? (Or any perfumed substance — the guard’s aftershave, e.g.) I thought that was fairly standard. You are far from the only person who is allergic, and libraries really don’t need patrons suing them for causing asthma attacks. Or having their own workers down all the time with asthma attacks, for that matter … Been there, done that, durn near coughed my lungs out.

]]> http://www.tangognat.com/2005/02/23/please-go-away-aromatic-security-guard/#comment-4065 lgf Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:13:06 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/?p=586#comment-4065 Compact shelving with a non-functional switch has always inspired me to think Hitchcock would have used that instead of a shower if he'd made Psycho 40 years later. (I've never seen Psycho, but Everyone Knows The Scene, even me!) Compact shelving with a non-functional switch has always inspired me to think Hitchcock would have used that instead of a shower if he’d made Psycho 40 years later. (I’ve never seen Psycho, but Everyone Knows The Scene, even me!)

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