Re: OK, I shouldn't watch the news

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:05:48 -0500, Jeannie Wilson
<jwilson421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gave thanks and said:

>seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxx (JulieW8) wrote here for all to
>seenews:425752ab.24803345@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Been awhile since I worked in an office <G> - can they refuse to hire
>> you if you smoke?
>
>Not sure about that but as a side note...
>
>one of my friends shares an office area with a smoker. She gets ticked off
>because she has to cover her phone, answer questions for people, schedule
>appointments, etc. whenever her office mate is outside smoking. Now...they
>work on the 12th floor. For her to make her way downstairs, out the
>hospital and to the smoking area, smoke and make her way back takes an
>average of 20 minutes. She does this about five times between 8 and 4, not
>including her lunch hour. This is a problem with quite a few other girls
>and they are complaining that they get docked if they come back from lunch
>late but the smokers are getting 100 minutes or more free every day because
>they are not required to clock out for their smoke breaks. Now...every
>time one of them comes back to the office after their smoke break, the
>other goes and takes "her smoke break". Management won't do a thing about
>it as they are too afraid of upsetting the smokers. The nonsmokers,
>however, have had disciplinary action taken against them in the forms of
>write-ups, etc. Fair???

No, and this is why some employers won't hire smokers.

They should be restricted to regular work breaks and nothing more.

I was temping in an office when California law about no smoking in the
office went into effect. The amount of time lost to the employer by
people going outside to smoke was incredible.

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