Smokers, Fatties...You're Outa Here!
The anti-smoking nazis will love this. So will the food nazis. Check it out:
Likewise, why should any employer not be able to hire whomever he wants. If I like the smell of smoke, but not the smell of smokers, I, as an employer have the right to hire them or not hire them. And smokers, if they wish to continue to work for me, should quit or hit the road. They don't have a "right" to work for me and I certainly don't have an obligation to keep them on.
Since I have the food and smoking nazis on my side, here, I wonder how they'd feel about my refusal to hire cross dressers, vegans, environmental terrorists or whoever else I deem to be unworthy of my hire. This is where we may lose the support of our food and anti-smoking nazi friends.
Simply stated, employers should be able to hire and fire whomever they wish without big gov't or the PC police saying otherwise.
The owner of a Michigan company who forced his employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs says he also wants to tell fat workers to lose weight or else.Got a problem with this? I don't. As a micro-businessman, and potential employer, I wouldn't hire a smoker and I wouldn't hire someone who is grossly overweight. Although I used to smoke (and I'm still overweight), I'm not the stereotypical anti-smoking zealot who moralistically refuses the right of anyone to smoke. In fact, I still rather like the wafting aroma of the evil second hand smoke. I don't avoid smoking sections in restaurants and I enjoy an occasional cigar. I oppose anti-smoking laws in restaurants, private buildings and sports arenas. Why should anyone be able to tell someone they can't smoke in their own property or someone else's property who approves it.
A ban on tobacco use, whether at home or at the workplace, led four employees to quit their jobs at Okemos, Michigan-based Weyco Inc, which handles insurance claims.
The workers refused to take a mandatory urine test demanded of Weyco's 200 employees by founder and sole owner Howard Weyers, a demand that he said was perfectly legal.
"If you don't want to take the test, you can leave," Weyers told Reuters. "I'm not controlling their lives; they have a choice whether they want to work here."
Next on the firing line: Overweight workers.
Likewise, why should any employer not be able to hire whomever he wants. If I like the smell of smoke, but not the smell of smokers, I, as an employer have the right to hire them or not hire them. And smokers, if they wish to continue to work for me, should quit or hit the road. They don't have a "right" to work for me and I certainly don't have an obligation to keep them on.
Since I have the food and smoking nazis on my side, here, I wonder how they'd feel about my refusal to hire cross dressers, vegans, environmental terrorists or whoever else I deem to be unworthy of my hire. This is where we may lose the support of our food and anti-smoking nazi friends.
Simply stated, employers should be able to hire and fire whomever they wish without big gov't or the PC police saying otherwise.
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