[Gabz]

Regarding the smoker I fired, yes she is a big time slacker. I gave her a lot of chances however she failed to innovate. Instead of taking a dozen smoking breaks and then calling in sick because she suffers from smoking related complications, she should have quit smoking and should have contributed better.

Your selfishness is showing again, and also your obvious bigotry about people that use tobacco products. About the only thing regarding your posts that can be excused is your failure to grasp idiomatic American English.

When a business loses 70% of it's customer base due to the selfishness of those such as yourself who insist on using government to meet your needs, there is nothing to "innovate" to get that base back.

Since you are a "scientist" and work for someone else, you have no concept of what it is like to be an entrepeneur and pour your life into operating a business, therefore there is no expectation of you understanding just what these people are going through. Having worked with business owners throughout this country trying to fight these bans, I do know what they are going through - I have seen their bottom lines.

You should be proud of yourself for firing the slacker lab assistant - you should hang your head in shame over your contribution to the job losses of many people who are not slackers, but are out of work because of the selfishness of you and your kind.

[CSM]

Don't you get it? Since the business owner isn't catering to HIM then it isn't a valid use of resources. Let's at least hope that he is open to learning the meaning of private property and the foundation of our individual liberty.

[velocityguy]

I thought you became a little sane based on your earlier post. But obviously, the Nicotine did not seem to have kicked in enough!!!!

Yes, I am selfish. I am selfish because I need to compete....I am hungry like any other Indian and Chinese Scientist who love USA. That is why we innovate.

In our kind of business unit (which is R&D), innovation is our business. Our business expertise is measured in the quantity and quality of our innovations, our expertise in organizing the business unit and managing it, our knowledge of analyzing the financial viability of a product line, the risk we might face with our business decisions based on our innovations and the associated rewards.

As per my company and my Director (a Belgian but a patriotic naturalized American), he thinks I have a smart way to manage my business unit (fyi...each business unit in itself is an enterprise...in massive technology companies like LU,INTC,AMD, QCOM etc). So if I am managing, analyzing my business unit's financial risks and rewards of my enterprise, I am sure he knows I am a better enterpreneur. That is the reason why I am a Lead Scientist today with in three months and at 27 years. No need for a "Nicotine addict" to tell lecture me about my enterpreneural skills!!!