SMOKERS...HIRED?

I have worked at this job for 2 months and they new I smoked when I started and it was no problem, but now some of the other employees are starting to bug me about it. Telling me to quit (which yes I know I need to) and just really buggin the piss out of me. Well, today the boss called me into his office and gave me a employee handbook which NOW states that there is to be no smoking in the building (which I knew that duh!) or on the premises at all. WHAT!? It's not just that he has been calling me into his office alot lately as if he is trying to make me quit instead of having to fire me. He also added in the handbook no outside work or anything else that would hinder your perfromance in the workplace. HELLO! I go to school at night.so what? am I just supposed to quit school too? What can I do when this is supposed to be an EOE?

Answers:

Asking you not to smoke on the premises is reasonable, but your employer implying to you that you're not allowed to smoke on your own time is absolute bulls****. Are you not allowed to get pregnant or eat fatty foods? Where do we draw the line? See, if your boss had made it clear before he hired you that he didn't want any employees who smoked at work or on their free time, then you would have had the choice at the time to accept or reject the employment offer. But now that you're working there, your boss is trying to impose new rules on your employment contract. I think that's pathetic, but you probably can't do much about it.

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