I work at a major Seattle company and we've been dealing with the popcorn issue for several years, yet our problem isn't "burnt" popcorn; it's popcorn in general.
When someone nukes popcorn one can smell it one hundred yards away. It's not necessarily a bad smell, but it's a distinct and pungeant smell that catches one's attention.
There has been talk of banning microwaving popcorn as well as fish over the years, and it wouldn't surprise me if a ban was enacted.

Is it any wonder..considering that Seattle employees and residents are so electromechanically challenged as evidenced by their inabilities to successfully operate a voting machine, how could the city council even think of allowing continued sales of Microwave popcorn in the city or for that matter the state.

The city should ban popcorn in the offices, if it is
disrupting the work flow process. We want efficiency
in the work place. As a tax payer and thats were my taxes go... I say no happiness for the city workers.

I'm more concerned that my taxes go to paying the wages of those who can't even make popcorn in a microwave without burning it to the extent of having to evacuate the building. If you can't make popcorn in a microwave, how do you even make it into work?

the trick to microwave popcorn is to stay and listen and when the pops slow down , count between pops and when you can count to 3...it's done. Never burnt popcorn since I started doing it.

Archie here! I’m that gopher over here in the Kittitas Valley. I’m out in the boonies. And, I call it as I see it. I’m taking no you-know-what from no one. Now to this popcorn thing.

Those folks in Seattle gotta get with it. A little smell from popcorn isn’t no worse than the smells we get from cows out in the pasture. Then, there’s all that dust from hay harvest. Tripping fire alarms because people are so dumb they burn their popcorn is another problem. Get rid of dumb people and allow good people to enjoy popcorn.

Don’t send them dumb popcorn burners over this way. We don’t want em. Send em south to you-know-where!

Hey, does coffee set off alarms? Over here we make coffee with good strong smell. Yummy coffee made for folks needing a jolt.

Oh well, hop the popcorn problem doesn’t require them to get new laws through that legislature.

Archie - - The Gopher Guy
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If people want popcorn let them have it at their house.

You gotta be kidding..... aren't you? What is with this "ban" mentality? Perhaps reason will surface again in my lifetime.
What about flatulence? Can we ban that in public places, or at least 25 feet from doors? I hate second hand flatulence! Surely it must cause cancer in lab rats!