Yay for VTO (voluntary, unpaid time off that doesn't "count against" you)! After being awake half the night with my stomach hurting, I get to work this morning and in my row it smells like somebody spilled a bottle of a very floral cologne, some flower that I am obs allergic to, I got an immediate headache and by my lunch break at 10:45a, my throat hurt and I couldn't talk right. So I put in for VTO and told my boss (read: begged her) to get it approved and she did!! I got to leave at 1pm so yay. 2.5 hours of missed pay is nothing compared to how my headache is almost gone now and I've only been out of there for an hour - didn't even need to take anything, just getting out of the smell was enough. And my throat feels fine, I had the windows down in my car all the way home so the fresh air fixed that right up. The headache was so bad that now that it's almost gone, my stomach is feeling better too. Yay for VTO!