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Geisinger will stop hiring smokers
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre PA) ^
| 12/29/11
| Steve Mocarsky
Posted on 12/29/2011 4:54:10 PM PST by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative
I bet peter puffers are welcome.
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posted on
12/29/2011 4:57:32 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Born Conservative
The urine test will include screening for cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, nicotine patches, nicotine gum and cigars. The test only detects active nicotine users, not those exposed to second-hand smoke. But...but...second hand smoke KILLS, doesn't it? ; )
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posted on
12/29/2011 4:57:36 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Born Conservative
What about drinkers or Tylenol users. How bout people who drive full sized pickup trucks or hunt?
Slippery slippery slippery
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:01:33 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: Born Conservative
saw this (and its ugly variations)coming 20 years ago.
Hey, look: "some pigs are more equal!"
To: Born Conservative
From the article:
“Merkle said non-nicotine hiring policies are legal in 20 states, including Pennsylvania.”
Are non-alcohol hiring policies “legal”?
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:02:13 PM PST
by
ngat
To: Born Conservative
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:04:05 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Born Conservative
Geisinger is joining dozens of hospitals and medical organizations across the country that are encouraging healthier living, decreasing absenteeism and reducing health care costs by adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants
If the goal is to encourage healthier living, then I'm pretty sure that the policy will be amended to include fat people in the "not hiring" category, because, they have higher health care costs, are absent more than non-fat(obese) people, and might be less productive than normal-sized people. It's coming.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:04:50 PM PST
by
adorno
(<)
To: Born Conservative
A drunk HR lady for the company I worked for in the late 80s told me they secretly tested for nicotine at the pre-employment drug screen. If it came back positive and a competing candidate didnt they recommended hiring the competing candidate. This place had 1500 employees and theyd had several die very expensively from lung cancer.
Frankly, Im surprised this isnt standard procedure, given medical costs and the clear correlation between smoking and medical outlays. If you smoke in England, Ive read NHS wont allow you to receive organ transplants.
To: adorno
Our local hospital will kick a patient out if they leave the property to smoke.
Last time I was in the hospital some 15 odd years ago, I had a whole network of nurses who would take me to the cafeteria to smoke at all hours of the day or night.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:08:59 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: Born Conservative
Some of our brightest firmware writers are smokers. Some of our best hardware engineers chew snuff. Let the madness begin.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:09:14 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: Born Conservative
POTUS need not apply there. Doesn’t he use nicotine gum or some such?
To: Born Conservative
I wonder if they'll stop hiring queers.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:12:33 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: eyedigress
Look at the pictures of Mission Control back in the days when we actually put men on the moon.
Buzz cuts, pocket protectors, cigarettes and coffee with scotch in the evenings.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:26:50 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: cripplecreek
Believe me I know. Smoking was allowed everywhere up until I left the service. Different times.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:31:09 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: Born Conservative
And yet they have no problem with hiring alcohol consumers. Alcohol consumption has ruined more families, destroyed more lives and careers than tobacco ever will........
Nobody cares since smokers have already been successfully identified, stigmatized, demonized and now ostracized..........It's all part of the plan.
Time to ban alcohol!
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:35:36 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
To: eyedigress
Back in the 60’s, patients and visitors could smoke in the patients hospital room.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:38:49 PM PST
by
umgud
To: All
Oh, man. This thread is funny. All these conservatives who advocate the right of businesses to serve who they want, say to hell with affirmative action and cheer when people are allowed to choose who they wish to associate with without reprisal are now turning the table around because a company wants to hire people who don't smoke.
Hypocrites!
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:39:02 PM PST
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: Born Conservative
How about me? I’m a runner & have had several ortho injuries that have consumed some healthcare $$$
What bullcrap. The groups that one could discriminate against are unlimited. How about promiscuous homosexuals?? After all, THAT’S a high risk lifestyle.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:40:12 PM PST
by
surroundedbyblue
(Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
To: umgud
They stopped that in the 70’s but my dad would call a cabby to bring him smokes. It was kinda clever I guess.
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posted on
12/29/2011 5:41:01 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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