A Discriminating Lady

If you're a smoker, scratch Akron Children's Hospital off your list of job prospects.

As of Nov. 1, the hospital will not hire any applicants who test positive for nicotine, regardless of their experience and qualifications...

''We're proud to be taking the lead on this,'' said Children's spokesperson Laurie Schueler.
And why shouldn't employers be able to lower their costs by eliminating all kinds of high risk activities from job consideration?

Why not refuse to hire motorcycle riders, or meat eaters or...gun owners?

We can just social engineer out the behaviors we want to discourage.

It would probably be even less risky if we kept our employees on premises at all times, fed them individually-calculated portions of tailored gruel, led them into padded stalls at shift's end, monitored their interactions and audio-visual inputs to keep out depressing thoughts...

It's interesting how you can condition laboratory animals to press the right button so a food pellet drops out. The downside is, I'm afraid the spirit that made America great is lost on Proud Laurie.

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