Disney Cast Member was forced to quit over bathroom air freshener

Ismael Flores

Ismael Flores

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So weird,
the things people complain about now a days and why would Disney need to compensate her for anything. Putting air fresheners is not a crime
 
sjhym333

sjhym333

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There seems to be a lot of missing information that the woman isn't giving about the situation. Settlement? For what? Was she suing them? Does she work in the bathroom? Having been in bathroom on stage and back stage I can say I never thought the bathrooms were overly fragrant. My guess is there is a lot more going on here. We won't ever hear Disney's side since they don't comment about law suits, settlements or cast member separation from the company.
 
Ismael Flores

Ismael Flores

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I find it even more interesting that things like this even make the news. Thousands of people loose their jobs all the time wether it's their fault or the companies.
Do these workers hire lawyers that advice them to contact the news to see if pity will help them fight and get compensated.
I'm sure those lawyers live the attention and paychecks
 
roj2323

roj2323

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Having been a custodian at disney I'll chime in here. Disney has a habit of over doing it on bathroom air fresheners. As someone who is also extremely sensitive to fragrances I almost never sprayed the air freshener we were supposed to in the bathrooms as it was very very easy to over do it. Additionally sometime in 2014 disney started installing fragrance units inside the guest restrooms and Presumably in this case the office restrooms as well. These new units were meant to be a replacement for the spray bottles custodians were supposed to use because some never used it (that's me) and others way over did it. The problem however is the installers had the dispersement setting set too high so many of the restrooms were fragrance hell. Because of all of this I can completely understand this woman's issues with the fragrances being overwhelming because I have experienced it as well. The real travesty of this story however is since she was an office worker, she very likely was not a union member and has really no recourse to either get her job back or at least get her pension.
 
MissM

MissM

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As someone who is sensitive to fragrances to the point where it can (and will) trigger a migraine, I sympathize with the misunderstanding people have about scent sensitivity. You wouldn't think twice if it were an epileptic having problems with flashing light patterns. But people are dismissive of the medical implications of perfumes and fragrances. Migraines are a neurological condition closer to epilepsy than merely a headache and avoiding one's triggers is key. I've had to leave a movie theater before when someone sat down next to me drenched in perfume. It seems silly they couldn't merely change her role to one that wouldn't encounter the fragrances.
 
Nubs70

Nubs70

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roj2323 said:
Having been a custodian at disney I'll chime in here. Disney has a habit of over doing it on bathroom air fresheners. As someone who is also extremely sensitive to fragrances I almost never sprayed the air freshener we were supposed to in the bathrooms as it was very very easy to over do it. Additionally sometime in 2014 disney started installing fragrance units inside the guest restrooms and Presumably in this case the office restrooms as well. These new units were meant to be a replacement for the spray bottles custodians were supposed to use because some never used it (that's me) and others way over did it. The problem however is the installers had the dispersement setting set too high so many of the restrooms were fragrance hell. Because of all of this I can completely understand this woman's issues with the fragrances being overwhelming because I have experienced it as well. The real travesty of this story however is since she was an office worker, she very likely was not a union member and has really no recourse to either get her job back or at least get her pension.
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Sounds like a reasonable accommodation claim
 
rob0519

rob0519

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From a story dated 3/10/17: "Copley said she had no serious allergies or asthma when she moved to Florida 10 years ago, now she has both."

From the story dated 5/6/17: "Copley held the job at Disney for 19 years, but said she recently had to quit."

So did she work at Disneyland for 9 years and then somehow transfer to Disney World 10 years ago? I'm confused.
There is way more to this story or it's the typical half a## Florida reporting.
 
Rteetz

Rteetz

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rob0519 said:
From a story dated 3/10/17: "Copley said she had no serious allergies or asthma when she moved to Florida 10 years ago, now she has both."

From the story dated 5/6/17: "Copley held the job at Disney for 19 years, but said she recently had to quit."

So did she work at Disneyland for 9 years and then somehow transfer to Disney World 10 years ago? I'm confused.
There is way more to this story or it's the typical half a## Florida reporting.
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You can work for a Disney store, call center, or some type of IT from other locations.
 
G00fyDad

G00fyDad

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