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by woteg on Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:33 pm
my employer recently came up with a new smoking policy stating that employees cannot smoke outside the building and must goto their cars to smoke, this seems unethical and against some law about the rights of people imo.
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by ladyteal on Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:48 pm
woteg wrote:
my employer recently came up with a new smoking policy stating that employees cannot smoke outside the building and must goto their cars to smoke, this seems unethical and against some law about the rights of people imo.


You're lucky! My employer banned smoking on their property, even in your own car. And you cannot report to work smelling like tobacco smoke.

I look pretty damn funny sitting in my car, a block away from work, in the middle of June, with my winter coat on.
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by activist0000 on Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:13 pm
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You're lucky! My employer banned smoking on their property, even in your own car. And you cannot report to work smelling like tobacco smoke.

I look pretty damn funny sitting in my car, a block away from work, in the middle of June, with my winter coat on.
Watch out. They might be timing you. If they need to lay people off, documenting the number of minutes employees spend away from their desks is a handy way to protect themselves against discrimination lawsuits.

The worst part is that if people know you smoke, they assume you are taking a smoke break every time you get up from your desk. One time I went a year without ever smoking on my employer's property, not even at lunch or on breaks. I would go the entire work day without smoking, and no one even noticed it.

One day I got up to go to the bathroom and my supervisor said, "Going on a smoke break?" It pissed me off because I realized then that he believed I was taking a smoke break every time I left my desk. I don't think he even believed me when I told him I hadn't smoked during work hours for months. I finally said to hell with the rule because it made no difference in how people perceived me anyway.
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by CigarBoy on Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:41 am
In KY smokers are a protected class and they have soem rights. Like companies cannot refures to hire smokers. In most states there is nothing you can do except go work somewhere that actually wants you to work for them.
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by libertarian99 on Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:15 am
CigarBoy wrote:
In KY smokers are a protected class and they have soem rights. Like companies cannot refures to hire smokers. In most states there is nothing you can do except go work somewhere that actually wants you to work for them.
Even in a state where you have legal protection, you've still got office politics to deal with, especially right now with layoffs going on everywhere. People will use whatever means they can to make you look like the next person who should be laid off, just to keep their own neck off the chopping block.
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by JoshNJ on Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:16 pm
CigarBoy wrote:
In KY smokers are a protected class and they have soem rights. Like companies cannot refures to hire smokers. In most states there is nothing you can do except go work somewhere that actually wants you to work for them.

Actually, 29 states have workplace protection for smokers and nonsmokers, so really the majority protect them:

http://slati.lungusa.org/appendixf.asp
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by garhkal on Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:33 pm
activist0000 wrote:

The worst part is that if people know you smoke, they assume you are taking a smoke break every time you get up from your desk. One time I went a year without ever smoking on my employer's property, not even at lunch or on breaks. I would go the entire work day without smoking, and no one even noticed it.

One day I got up to go to the bathroom and my supervisor said, "Going on a smoke break?" It pissed me off because I realized then that he believed I was taking a smoke break every time I left my desk. I don't think he even believed me when I told him I hadn't smoked during work hours for months. I finally said to hell with the rule because it made no difference in how people perceived me anyway.


I know that feeling. Had one chief ask me that when i got up holding my belly and ran to the toilet... When i came out he did not even say "ops, guess i was wrong about you smoking"...
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by Asmoker2 on Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:03 pm
JoshNJ wrote:
CigarBoy wrote:
In KY smokers are a protected class and they have soem rights. Like companies cannot refures to hire smokers. In most states there is nothing you can do except go work somewhere that actually wants you to work for them.

Actually, 29 states have workplace protection for smokers and nonsmokers, so really the majority protect them:

http://slati.lungusa.org/appendixf.asp


It's about time you give us something with which we can really work.
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by JoshNJ on Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:43 am
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It's about time you give us something with which we can really work.

Perhaps you should look back at older posts if you think this is the first time.
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by Asmoker2 on Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:34 pm
JoshNJ wrote:
Asmoker2 wrote:
It's about time you give us something with which we can really work.

Perhaps you should look back at older posts if you think this is the first time.


hahahaha... I've read 'em all once... I'm not masochistic.
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