so the jerk sent me this email
Thank you for being honest with us but I will be honest with you too, we are very skeptical about people who smokes not because they are bad people or less talented just because they are addicted to the nicotine. Jessica my wife and my partner in the business is a trained nurse that used to manage the whole operations for Kaiser hospital in regards to Heart and Lungs transplants. Most of her patients used to be people like you and she realizes how hard it is to quit.
Smokers are higher liability then non smoking employees, higher insurance premiums, more sick days, lost productivity due to smoking breaks, etc… I know that is hard to hear all of these things but it is the truth and that is what you will always hear from me, the truth.
I do care for your health as a human being but the bottom line is that I care for the business and for the way the business is going to be run and by who? I can not work with people that smells like an ashtray just because of my own selfishness I do not like the smell and 95% of our clients are non smokers and I know from experience that they do not like the smell either, they have asked us in the past to refrain from sending out engineers that smokes.
I do have big plans for you only if you have big plans for your self and you really think that this is the right time for you to quit smoking and have a new start, a new job, a new life, healthier life.
The choice is in your hands, should you choose to come to work tomorrow morning that means you are understanding what I wrote and you are accepting the challenge otherwise if I do not see you I know that this is too hard for you to commit to and I wish you good luck in your future
and I responded with this
Thank you for your email. I thought about this over the weekend and I pretty much knew what your answer would be. I completely understood what you wrote however since I have choices in my life and have never been afraid to commit to challenges. I will have a new start, a new job and a new life without your help. I am a hard worker with a strong work ethic and my lifestyle choices should not be a reason not to hire me. However at this point, I have no desire to work for someone that basis his decision on whether or not I smoke. I will quit smoking when I am ready to quit and not because of someone saying I must for a job. I don't want to have to always wonder if I start smoking again, will I lose my job? Or if have a cigarette during a lunch break, will I have big brother looking over my shoulder? I don't want to feel like I am 14 again with my parents making sure I'm not breaking the rules. I have plenty of friends that smoke and plenty that don't but I do not punish any of these friends because of their lifestyle choices.
I can't remember the last time I got sick and stayed home from work because of a smoking related illness and I have never had loss of productivity because of smoking, just because you have had bad experiences in the past doesn't mean every smoker is like that.
I do have big plans for my life and I will find some other place/person that values my talents and skills over my lifestyle choice of smoking or whatever it may be that you don't agree with.
You do owe me for my work on Friday for the accounting auditing and the html programming for your client. I will be billing you my regular programming/pc rate for the html work. I also have your office key which Rose gave me on Friday and can drop that off tomorrow when I pick up my check if that is agreeable to you. I have attached an invoice for my work on Friday.
I wish you good luck in your future and may you find the right non-smoker for the position
which apparently pissed him off...and I got this response
- I am very sorry that you are upset about me being honest with you; maybe honesty after all is not the best thing in life…
- I hate to be a big brother and that is why I gave you the choice to forget about all of this in my first e mail, then you are the one that suggested that you will not smoke during the day.
- I do know that you are a hard worker and a good one; I never had a doubt in my mind.
- I am sure you have plenty of friends that smoke, and some of them that don’t, but I am not one of your friends.
- In regards to your health, If you listened to the latest news by the surgeon general you would know by now that it is only a question of time
- I agreed to pay you $20 an hour for the time you will be working in my office during the trial period and not a penny more or a penny less, we never agreed to any other rate other then $20 an hour. You are welcome to bring the keys back tomorrow and receive your check for $100.
- If you are so angry at me for thinking that your smoking habits are so bad I would suggest that you have a talk with the people you are giving out as your references.
- I wish you all the best!
so i only got the $100.00 but it was worth a try to try to charge him more. He told me that he never smelled the smoke on me but my reference said I was a heavy smoker and it was bad - the man was back-pedaling or trying to because I told him flat out that I didn't want to work for him, that I didn't want to work for someone like him and my references that's bullshit, last I checked most of them smoked too or don't have a issue with my smoking, I've asked the ones that don't smoke if it bothered them if I smoked around them..if it does, i don't. So anyways, thanks for all the advice from everyone..this wasn't the right opportunity for me
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