Refused a job because I smoke....

moggy18

i find it offensive that its been said that somking is a disabilty. it very much is not. i did not chose to be disabled. it bares no realation to what it means to be disabled. it is a drug and very dangerous to health and does signinficantly impare you as an idividual but its not a disabilty. because you stop smoking and you will no longer be impared. the same as an illness is recoverable and is not a disabilty.

you could die horribly of very nasty illnesses and in comparision to alcohol it will cost a lot more to keep you alive than it would on any other addictive substance. also someone sitting next to me drinking alcohol is doing no harm to me for health reasons. but someone smoking next to me in a workplace because they chose to mean i have no choice in the matter on my health. there was no moral right for this and it was banned in places that people work.

on smoke and smelling. you need only smoke once in a room and smoke that touches anything because of the chemical reactions that take place and how it binds to things like cloths will stay there for a very long time. on going to job interveiw and not smoking the day before so they wont know. only way they wont know is if you wash yourself every day fully for a week buy new cloths. dont go anywhere you have smoked and then they wont be able to tell.

on you having the right to have breaks at work to smoke. its not just the break when you go to smoke that effects your work. when you smoke it hightens your sences. but there is a come down that like tea or coffee that lasts longer than the up from smoking. it significantly effects your work in that you are thinking. because it is addictive and you want to smoke you are already altering how you live your life. you can be ratty with work colleges and down by having the addictive substance removed between breaks. yoru body needs the simulous and wants the fix. you make reasons and excuses as to why you want to smoke but if you had lost your tounge, your voice box, part of your lungs and your face through cancer then clearly that in everybodys interest for that not to happen. including your own.

it is your choice to smoke. in your home fine. but at any time at work even in your break. it will effect you.

tomsolomon

Some people eh....
Please quote me where I said smoking was a disability.....
And please read the whole thread instead of picking up bits of information and twisting them into bias judgements, with the intent of making me look like a complete fool.
See that's the problem here isn't it.
Some people are far to quick to give others a bad name, because they don't conform to their typeset.
You know who you are. What makes you think you are any better a person, because you don't smoke. I bet your all primary school teachers aren't you.........

liney

tomsolomon wrote: »

The job was for a IT support center. I wouldn't even have had direct contact with customers....
Smoking is an affliction for most people, and should be classed as a handy cap, I do not appreciate being treated like a third class citizen. I would love to give up, but as it is, I smoke. Fine they have stopped smoking in public places and in the work place. What I do in the privacy of my own home is my buisness, and should not be an excuse for refusing employment.

That's where you said it.

moggy18

it was not my intention to make you feel a fool. it was intention to put my point and a great deal of scientifc research on the subject on here.

giving up smoking is just about the hardest thing you can do in terms of coming off them. but even with the knowlege you could die in a horrific way endangers peoples heath other than your own and effect your work. have waringings on the packets. people still smoke saying its there right. i had a freind who smoked all there lives. they died in a horrific way and every day till they died they wished they never smoked.

i should correct myself to my other post on here. even in someones home i think its wrong when you have children in the house. children because of there development are at even more risk to very serous health problems and death as a result of an adult smoking in the same room as them. but again even with knolege that smoke can hurt a childs health some parents still smoke near there children. what rights have the children have.

its known that your brain biochemistry is effected by smoking. its as much this reason as to why its very hard to give up. you rationlise your choice to smoke which is your right. thats fine. no arguing that point. but where it goes wrong is your right over anyone else. if your rationalising your choice to smoke over the lives of other people thats very wrong. but if you had not got the fix or smoked you would not think like that. its not a moral right to smoke at work endangering anyone else. this is non the law now and is in the right direction.

i dont know the situation but the company you wanted to work at might have a private health plan that pays out if you are ill. because you are at great risk to being ill. they may see it as reasonable for you to give up smoking for them to take you on.

tomsolomon

liney wrote: »

That's where you said it.

Where does it say smoking is a disability??????

liney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap

Are you colour blind?

a11waysindebt

tomsolomon wrote: »

Yes can you believe it.......
I have just spoken to the inerveiwer on the phone, and I was told that "the company does not employ smokers", and that "You can re-send your CV after you have been smoke free for a month".........
That's descriminatory, what are my rights?

I haven't been through all the thread.Can you give the name of the company involved.

mymatebob

a11waysindebt wrote: »

I haven't been through all the thread.Can you give the name of the company involved.

Out of curiosity what would knowing the name of the company do?

ailuro2

well there's a job going for a non smoker in IT support....

times are tough, someone who is a non smoker might need a job...:p

tomsolomon

liney wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap

Are you colour blind?

So your not just discriminatory towards smokers, your discriminatory toward the visually impaired also........
You should be thoroughly ashamed of your self.