[Arkinsaw]

In the future:
No drinking alcohol off the job or fired. Drinking alcohol is notoriously bad for your health, it gets others killed if you drive with it, its addictive to some, it affects you the day after during the work day, its just bad. So its legitimate to fire someone for doing that off duty.

Its usually gun owners who go postal and shoot up fellow workers. So its legitimate to not allow employees access to guns in their private lives. Not all gun owners go postal, but most people who go postal are gun owners...even if for a short time.

Meat is known to cause cancer, is fatty, generally not good for you. Raises health costs. Its legitimate to require workers not to eat meat, or to at least eat it only one day per week. Failure to adhere is a legitimate reason to terminate employment.

There are many things people do in their private lives that can effect on-job performance or have secondary effects on the job. For instance, dangerous skydiving, motor-cycling, Civil War reenacting, harboring dangerous things like dogs, or rock climbing can cause disruption of both you and your fellow employees if a funeral becomes necessary.

To be safe, you will find in your employee a manual a list of private off-work activities that are allowed by the company. It is easier to list those allowed than those that are not.

If you agree, sign your manual and return to human resources. If you do not, please find work at one of the three or four other companies that have not adopted this policy.

[elcid1970]

"In the future..."

You will be regularly tested for BMI. Anyone with more than 5% body fat has one year to get down to 150 pounds or less. The negative effects of obesity should be obvious to everyone.

You will be required to take the Army physical fitness test twice a year (heck, I am, and I'm in the reserves). Any reasonably fit man or woman should be able to perform the requisite number of pushups and situps, as well as score well on the two mile run.

You will be required to install a company-provided flatscreen telescreen in your home, facing the refrigerator and the location where you perform your morning calisthenics under company supervision.....

...Gee I could just go on and on.

[TheLion]

Good post. I've been thinking as I have read this thread that every employee could probably be fired for one of a zillion reasons.

Eating at McDonalds or other fast food restaurants
Smoking
Drinking
Speeding
Getting a traffic ticket
Being overweight
Not excercising
Being Divorced
Not getting enough sleep
Being Gay
Being promiscuous
Eating meat
Not eating a perfectly balanced diet(who will judge)

To name just a few....this is a terrible way to go. I don't care if it is a private employer agreement. They can restrict his ability to smoke at work, but his private life is none of their damn business.

If tobacco were a banned substance, there would be no problem.

If people don't see this, they can bend over and kiss it good-bye!