Refused a job because I smoke....

mymatebob

a11waysindebt wrote: »

Without knowing who the company is you can't look in to it further.

Thats if the interview did happen.

Can't see no harm mentioning the company.

There was no interview.
There was discrimination
It was not illegal

The name of the company makes no difference

jumpycheese1

As I said in earlier posts, smokers tend to spend less time working than do the non-smokers. Plus I am not too sure if this is pure coincidence, smokers tend to have more colds and other illnesses, the illnesses last longer and spend more time sick from work than non-smokers. I based this info from my friends and colleagues (past and current employers)


Employers don't want time wasters and people falling ill.

tincat

I worked at london electricity when I left school as a temp, and when I think about it I can't believe what we got away with.

A group of us would go off to the smoking room (good grief, I can still remember the smell clearly) practically every hour on the hour. We'd be there for 10 minutes at least, and then add on 5 minutes to-ing and fro-ing. Back to our desks to clock watch until the next one :rotfl:45 minutes later:rotfl:

Luckily managed to give up smoking 6 years ago.

Mutter_2

Waitrose will not pass onto application if you bite your nails.
Too right.

BridgetJones_2

Rikki wrote: »

If you really wanted to give up you would.
Will power and wanting to is the deciding factor in giving up.

Well said. Perhaps they see it as it is...a weakness. Good for them, I'm fed up with my colleagues trotting off every couple of hours and coming back humming.

alyth

I can't believe that are so many companies out there that still let their staff having smoking breaks. I smoke, I enjoy it and I know what it's going to do to my health, but the office I work in (a law firm) would never let their staff take a break to have a cigarette. And I've worked in a few different environments as a temp over the last 6 months and again there hasn't been one place where anyone's been allowed to have a cigarette break. Even though I smoke I sure as hell can last 8/9 hours without having a cigarette, just makes the one I have when I get home even more pleasurable (and I smoke in my garden!)

spora

Mutter wrote: »

Waitrose will not pass onto application if you bite your nails.
Too right.

Very true. They also dont like if you take too much care of your nails. I worked part time at waitrose when i was at college and told not to buff my nails because they looked too shiney so it looked like i had nail varnish on!

I didnt even work with fresh food, but its just a blanket rule because you dont want those working on the deli getting nail varnish in your food.

back to the topic...

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

scotsman4th wrote: »

I have never seen these additional breaks smokers get. It's a myth made up by bitter, smoke free, moanathon addicts.

Haha, yeah they exhisted in my last job. I thought it was unfair but thought hey if you can't beat them, join them. Everytime a couple of the guys got up to go for a ciggie break, little old me would go ''wait for me, the passive smoker!'', lol, and management didn't say a thing...it amused them actually I have an knack for getting away with being cheeky (basically i do my job AND be cheeky, lol). They were heading outside in the open air, so i was hardly doing myself any harm AND getting extra breaks out of it!:rotfl:

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Hmm...it is easier for some to quit than others it is clear, like a previous poster here i started smoking at a very young age, i was actually just 10. By 13yrs i was on 10 a day, by 16yrs it was 20 a day. And guess what, at 18 i decided to stop (and due to my boyf telling me he hated everything about it) and hey guess what i have had a total of about 5 ciggies in the past 5 yrs (don't tell boyf, lol), and that has always been after a drink but i have never looked back really. So yes, you can quit, but clearly it was easier for me than many by the sounds of it.