“Smokers are not a protected class” -
Head of the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination when asked to comment on the MassHospitalAssociation’s new policy of testing people for any nicotine - a doctor having an after dinner cigar - in their systems.
presence of any nicotine in your system whether you smoke at work on not - Fired!
BTW, you must’ve been enjoying your smoke - IMO, nothing upsets of the NannyNaziNags more than someone enjoying themselves as opposed to the furtiveness they would prefer.
IMO, one of the scarier comments I have heard from a public official. Symptomatic of an overweening bureacracy and a fascist totalitarian emphasis on individual and public health. - protected class, indeed.
Now we Americans are defined whether we are a protected class? Ya mean my swarthy status don’t count!
“Now we Americans are defined whether we are a protected class? Ya mean my swarthy status don’t count!”
Since I’m a senior, still alive in spite of approx.60 years of smoking,I have some protection.
What astonishes me is that you could become blind drunk every night and show up for work in the A.M. and that would be acceptable but nicotine in your system wouldn’t be.
Hang in there-—swarthy may be included eventually. :-)
What a country—I’m glad I’m old enough to remember when it was truly free.