Old Smoke

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|Old Smoke: Offensive odor in the workplace |

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|Keith Williams |

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Old Smoke: Offensive odor in the workplace

Explain how you would handle this situation if you were Charles Renfold.

While Alice’s arguments against spending hours in an enclosed space reeking of stale cigarette smoke—an implicit health hazard, irrespective arguments to the contrary (see discussion below)—may well be valid, the fact remains that she failed to specifically address the issue with the manager, Charles Renfold, before the company debacle (a requirement that a company report be assembled immediately, using a workspace regularly occupied by smokers) arose. While the scenario is unclear on the matter, it may well be the case that Alice is made uncomfortable by short-term exposure to cigarette smoke or stale ‘old smoke,’ but that sustained exposure may trigger more pronounced reactions, ones that might...