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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
my friend works for a company that says NO SMOKING period even at home. Because they feel it's important for their employees health. He signed a piece of paper that says he'll be fired for it. He smokes once in a while, if he's caught he knows the ramifications and consequences.
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As a private company they should be able to set whatever terms of employment they like so I don't have a problem with that from a logical standpoint. If a company hires you based on an agreement that you'll wear a pink tu-tu on Wednesdays, so be it. However I think that anti-smoking rule is a MASSIVE intrusion of personal privacy, and there's no way I'd ever agree to work under those kind of terms even if I didn't smoke. People should be hired (and fired) based strictly on their job performance; personal habits that in no way affect their jobs shouldn't be considered.
With any luck, all the better-qualified people who were turned away because they smoke will go work for the competition and run those morons out of business. Do they fire people who drink, don't wear their seat belts, go outside without sunblock, etc. too?