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Smoking Ban and Termination
September 17, 2012 at
05:19 PM
In Illinois we have had a smoking ban for over 4 years which is long enough for everyone to have heard of in our state. I servie copy machines and do network maintenance and am being forced to go into an accounting firm in Central IL that feels that the smoking ban does not apply to them. The building smells, there is heavy smoke in the air, and the owner is kind of like a dragon. She doesn't even have a cigarette in her hand but she still will have smoke pouring out of her mouth after speaking 2 complete sentences.
Can I be fired for reporting them to the authorities and for letting them know that the reason I am unable to give them good service is due to the fact that I feel ill and get a migraine while in the office and cannot perform under the current circumstances?
Can I be fired for reporting them to the authorities and for letting them know that the reason I am unable to give them good service is due to the fact that I feel ill and get a migraine while in the office and cannot perform under the current circumstances?
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I say run it by your boss first.
That should solve the problem post haste.
http://en.wikipedia.or
"As of January 1, 2008, the Smoke-Free Illinois Act[3] requires that public places and places of employment must be completely smoke-free inside and within 15 feet from entrances, exits, windows that open and ventilation intakes."
There is a list of exempted places; they are not one, per your description.
I say run it by your boss first.
That should solve the problem post haste.
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Let your boss handle it. He may send another tech there and not say anything because he fears losing a customer
Didn't doctors get away with smoking while examining patients, like 40-50 years ago? Or am I just transferring Doc Coddle from BSG onto real life?
Seriously though imagine if you lived in China, they let babies and cats and monkeys smoke over there.
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Didn't doctors get away with smoking while examining patients, like 40-50 years ago? Or am I just transferring Doc Coddle from BSG onto real life?
Seriously though imagine if you lived in China, they let babies and cats and monkeys smoke over there.
Woops, guess you did.
"If you're old enough to make fire, you're old enough to smoke... and by the way, next American you see, punch him in the nads and demand your $3700 [financetwitter.com]!"
"If you're old enough to make fire, you're old enough to smoke... and by the way, next American you see, punch him in the nads and demand your $3700 [financetwitter.com]!"
That is pretty farkin' ridiculous though. Where the fark does all this foreign "aid" go? Can't we just write "payment toward balance" in the memo field of the check and knock some of this shit out?