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originally posted by: ColeYounger
The companies could use Michael Bloomburg logic and pay their employees less.
That way, the employees won't have extra money to spend on tobacco.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn
I think that we don't realize how much of our freedoms we have given away for the sake of comfort, convenience, and a false sense of security.
They can't just come out and do big things like say they don't want overweight employees. The way they do it is by chipping little by little.
It is the same way property taxes have gotten so high in some areas. A dollar doesn't sound like a lot in taxes, but times five thousand little things it is. It sneaks up on you.
This is the same thing.
originally posted by: openminded2011
a reply to: JAGStorm
YES!!!!!!
Why is it smokers are allowed to take 6-7 breaks a day but non smokers can never get away with that? For example, at my place of work everyone in my dept. happen to be non smokers, we have to file work utilization reports for every MINUTE of our workday but see the salaried office people taking multiple smoke breaks all day long, and are NOT required to log that time. That is total BS. If this is going on everywhere, that's billions of dollars in labor costs lost. And yet the suits are only worried about the people who actually WORK all day.
originally posted by: dawnstar
Funny thing, I think people were healthier back then also...
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: dawnstar
Funny thing, I think people were healthier back then also...
Are you old enough to know? When I entered the military in 1980 I saw people in their early 40s and I was thinking back then, boy I hope I don't look that bad at 40. Well today I'm 60 and I'm in 10 times better shape then those who were 40 in the 80s. BTW I do drink and smoke cigars...