Posted on 07/09/2014 6:36:40 AM PDT by rktman
Starting next year, Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis will require potential employees to pass a drug test–detecting nicotine.
This so-called “job screening” will bar any applicants who smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes, snuff, hookah, and even e-cigarettes from being eligible for employment. While the hospital already has a smoking ban on the premises and surrounding sidewalks, this policy forbids new employees from consuming tobacco anywhere, at any time.
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Today most dealerships are 90% warranty and 10% customer pay. The evidence suggests the drug testing replaced employees liked by customers with employees chosen for the pureness of urine.
Pot is OK, though.
Again, thus my motto: “LUTFA!” (Leave us the F alone) If we need you, we’ll call you.
LOL! “ and drive defensively.” Does that include when you see vehicles with stickers on the bumper from BOTH lyin’ king campaigns? I’ve been real tempted to spin and pin some of these clowns so many times but have been able to maintain my composure.
This is utterly totalitarian. Hopefully, after the elections, Maryland’s new governor and Anne Arundel County’s new County Exectuive (our nominee is a very good man) will intervene.
How does the county/governor intervene with “at will” employment? I don’t like an employer setting ones rules 24/7/365 but, they are the boss and get to set the employment criteria. I kept waiting for my former employer to go this route but since I worked away from the main facility I wasn’t hit with it even thought they tried to implement it at the plant, the union objected and “smoking areas” were “arranged”. Now I’m just retired. ;>}
Larry Hogan, the Republican nominee for governor (who may win), has been citing that study in his campaign ads.
He’s also been saying that Gov. O’Malley (who is term-limited) and his Mini-Me, Lt. Gov. AnthonyBrown (the Democrat nominee) “never met a tax they didn’t like — or at least one they didn’t hike.” He’s promising to roll back as many of Maryland’s 40 tax increases under O’Malley-Brown as he can.
Maryland is the only state that taxes the rain.
I am a lifelong non-smoker and I object to this, likely more strongly than most smokers do.
Not public employers.
Employers have every right to not hire smokers if they think that is important.
If they have a policy that intrudes into your private life and you don’t like it, look for a job elsewhere.
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Yup. It’s called making an informed decision.
As we say, everyday you make a choice to come to work here or not.
Certainly watching out for people with Obama stickers is important. But part of what I do now, unlike in my youth, is look for potential trouble and stay out of the way. If the guy next to me is tailgaiting the guy in front of him, I know he is looking for an opportunity to pass. So I back off and give him room to do it rather than fight him for my lane. I am constantly looking for potential trouble and trying to avoid it. If a guy thinks his hot car can beat my turbocharged SLK, I will let him do it. LOL
Can you still be a queer? A health hazard if there ever was one.
Well, I can’t, butt for those that are, yes. They are a protected/special class/race/ethnicity or whatever.
No, this is a county -- i.e., government hospital.
No, this is a county -- i.e., government hospital.
The problem is simple, you pipe smokers were happy and so was the restaurant owners.
Liberals hate happy people unless they are on drugs making jokes about conservatives.
“I belong to a pipe club that meets in the Baltimore area. We collect and smoke pipes and tobaccos. We used to meet in a restaurant in Parkville in the banquet room. There were 20 or more of us ordering off the menu, eating , smoking and socializing, not bothering anyone else, and not being bothered by anyone else. The restaurant owner was happy, we were happy, everyone was happy, except for the Maryland state legislature, who passed legislation banning us from meeting there and smoking.”
If ever there was an oppportunity for a Republican to win the governorship this year should be it. There is unquestionably a general feeling of malaise in the state right now and people are fed up with high taxes.
However....Maryland is still a very deep blue state and his opponent has the “special status” that will guarantee him favorable news coverage by the liberal media. I maybe be wrong but I don’t think Hogan can win. Maryland would rather remain in its pathetic politcal morass than elect a Republican.
Remember what happened to Maryland Democrats not all that long ago when they last decided, "Hey, let's nominate the Lieutenant Governor so we can keep doing what we're doing."
A friend of mine — lifelong Democrat, voted for Obama, voted for Gansler in the primary — is strongly supporting Hogan and he and I know of many such Democrats.
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