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Lionessa

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5. Whole cities and counties gov'ts, and hospitals, and USSC says it's

Reply to unblock (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 4, 2012, 05:25 PM

Apr 2012

okay to not hire a smoker.

Sorry, you're wrong. Smokers are now often not even allowed to smoke in the parking lot. Can't smoke even as an adult within 4 city blocks of a school in one city I lived in.

Sorry, you're wrong. The county I just moved from wasn't even happy with your sworn statement, they required hair tests to prove you hadn't smoked in over a year, sorry skin heads and short haired folks, I guess, but they publish is as a pre-employment condition and will terminate if found smoking, no rehab for new hires, and old hires get on shot at rehab

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Fat? This Hospital Won't Hire You... [View all] one_voice Apr 2012 OP

First they came for the smokers..... Lionessa Apr 2012 #1

perhaps ironically, i'd bet that smoking is not a disqualifier from working at that hospital. unblock Apr 2012 #4

Whole cities and counties gov'ts, and hospitals, and USSC says it's Lionessa Apr 2012 #5

At my last job some workers got snagged XanaDUer Apr 2012 #11

One hospital went from hiring them to not XanaDUer Apr 2012 #9

I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing...I like not movonne Apr 2012 #17

This is getting to be SOP XanaDUer Apr 2012 #2

And they wonder why no one Ilsa Apr 2012 #3

I got over my assumption that hospitals XanaDUer Apr 2012 #7

My health insurance co sent out a Ilsa Apr 2012 #19

Quite a few hospital employees had to quit XanaDUer Apr 2012 #20

That's what I remember Ilsa Apr 2012 #23

Before long the only people who will be qualified are whites who are fit between the ages of southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #6

I did a google image search for 5' 10" 250 lbs snooper2 Apr 2012 #8

What a fattie. slampoet Apr 2012 #21

Oh and they Outsource this body-fluid info XanaDUer Apr 2012 #10

I find it telling that this is only for "administrative" positions Horse with no Name Apr 2012 #12

From the nurses I've met, floor nurses, it's because Lionessa Apr 2012 #13

Wait...they're doing this because the majority of their patients are over 65? Iris Apr 2012 #14

In the article I read (not this one) the hospital admitted BlueIris Apr 2012 #15

Weird XanaDUer Apr 2012 #16

In other words we are feeding the paranoid prejudices that are part of the aging process.... slampoet Apr 2012 #22

Interesting info Horse with no Name Apr 2012 #18

This is the logical end result of seeing obesity as a moral fault rather than a medical problem. Odin2005 Apr 2012 #24