Tobacco users need not apply

Orlando Sentinel ^ | March 27, 2002 | April Hunt and Susan Jacobson

[maxwell]

the biggest crybabies I've ever worked with have all been non-smokers. The smokers more often than not just to tend to keep on goin', no matter.

Yeah, smokers are nicer folks too... Ain't as uptight in my experience...

[Great Dane]

Then again, since I have only missed 2-3 days a year (on average) from work due to illness in my 40 years of working, and have been smoking for 43 years...maybe they owe me some money!

Yes indeed, my husband retired with nearly a year of unused sick leave, he didn't get it paid, which by the way I agree with....... but the politicians gets unused sick leave payouts.

My husband has smoked since he was 13, is now 70, very seldom sees a doctor, and is not on any kind of meds.

[Great Dane]

I want to see what the health insurance savings are < snicker >

LOL< There will be non, they will use the old standby, "your rates will go up, but not nearly as much as it would have, had you not brought this sensible rule in."

[Great Dane]

The fat police can't be too far behind.

They are nipping at your butt [pardon the pun] as we speak.

[RikaStrom]

"It saves the taxpayers money in the long run, and hopefully it will save some lives," Mayor Glenn Sangiovanni said. "I think as an employer we have this right."

Ummm, excuse me, stupid excuse for a mayor, but just exactly how much is it going to cost you to continuously test your employees to find out if they are smoking during their private hours; ie. not on the clock?

How much is it going to cost taxpayers for you to hire people to spy on your employees during their weekends?

How will you justify your expanded costs in this arena?

As an employer you only have the right to dictate what happens on the job, not off the job. You should go back to school and try a little more fundamental education, not socialistic domination.

[Madame Dufarge]

Yeah, smokers are nicer folks too

Take us, for instance.....

[Bella_Bru]

Did you know studies have shown that smokers tip better too?

[TN Republican]

I know that and you know that, but the health nazis will never admit it.

[maxwell]

I know that and you know that, but the health nazis will never admit it.

Well it is kinduva morbid argument dude... Haha...

[maxwell]

Did you know studies have shown that smokers tip better too?

I'd believe that. I tip pretty damn well unless the waiter is obviously craving an ass-whupping.

I think part of it's because I've been p!ss-poor my whole life anyway so I'm tryin' to give 'em a break...

[Bella_Bru]

I was a waitress once, so I am pretty understanding. I don't take the cook's mistakes out on the waitstaff. And like you said, unless they are total idiots or jerks, I tend to leave very healthy tips.

I think smokers tend to tip better because we are overall more laid back.

[TN Republican]

As a former cook, I remember working at a fancy restaurant where the wait staff was pulling down huge tips ($200/night in 1987). They would give us special requests and then would always compliment us on how well we presented the food on the plates. We finally started to see that as a cheap payoff for someone who was pulling down $20 tips, so our shift leader decided to put out a pitiful little styrofoam bowl so that the waitressluts and gaycons could donate to our beer fund. (We usually tried to keep a bag of cold ones behind the dumpster.)

All of a sudden, they became really ungrateful. All we got were shocked looks and a couple of pennies - they must have really resented us for trying to take the cocaine out of their noses. So to make a long story short, yes, I will gladly punish a waiter or waitress for the poor quality of the food. If the food sucks, they have to be sincerely trying to make up for it to get the big 15% payoff from this choosy customer.

[yoe]

Even if I did not smoke, I would raise up in wrath over this total infringement of the people's rights. The right to work, the right to own property, the right to free speech, the right to own a firearm and the right to VOTE in a free society.

You would think these meddlesome people would have more to worry about: the threat of Small Pox for instance, terrorists in our midst...we have no vaccine and none in the foreseeable future. Perhaps these businesses should look to their interior paints, carpeting and plastics for real threats to indoor environment.

[Leisler]

Once you see your friends go out with lung cancer and relise that you are not going to be paid back that twelve buck that they owe you, well, a scotsman can face anything.

[zoyd]

St. Cloud's more-sweeping policy raises some questions. For example, what about elected officials? After all, they're on the city payroll. No City Council members smoke, but elected officials are exempt, anyway, City Manager Paul Kaskey said.

Aw, isn't that convenient? So no elected official will ever have to pee in a cup to prove they're not smoking, but everyone else on the payroll has to?

[diefree]

I like the part about saving lives. Do they mean forever? No one will die if they stop smoking?

[diefree]

Well, if and when we are in the trenches here in this country, I am not going to let any non-smokers have any of my cigarettes.