In case you were wondering how much it costs to get the smoking smell out of a hotel room, Westin Hotel says its $200. That's how much they will add on to any customer's bill who is caught smoking in their rooms after January 1, 2006 ( we still don't have a name for this decade. I still recommend D1/2K)
Meanwhile over in Germany, an employee at a printing company was just fired for smoking in his backyard. According to telegraph.co.uk the company provided all non-smokers with a bonus. In order to receive the financial reward, employees had to state every month that they did not smoke. The guys's co-workers turned him in.
"The rules were he was to tell us if he smoked. He defrauded us of some 1,200 euros [£800] a year which is enough money for a family holiday. If someone steals from their company, it is normal that they are punished." The company introduced its radical no-smoking policy five years ago and abolished smoking areas last year. Two thirds of its staff are in the programme. "
Last year a Michigan company made the headlines when it fired employees who refused to take a Breathalyzer test after the company instituted a policy forbidding employees to smoke cigarettes --any time, any where 24/7 --365 days a year.
There is a big difference from the firm in Michigan and the company in Germany. The German firm was providing an incentive --a very nice incentive for people to embrace the nonsmoking lifestyle.
The Michigan firm wasn't incenting, it was dictating and as much as I dislike smoking, I do not believe a company had the right to fire those employees.
Like the firm in Germany, Roanoke, Va's Cat Communications International believes the best way to change habits is through incentives. That's why the CEO Norm Mason created a free Vegeteria .
"Mason says he created the "Vegeteria" out of concern for the well- being of his 200 employees of Cat Communications International. So he's giving them all the fresh vegetables, meat substitutes, cakes and drinks they could ever want.
"This was a way to say: 'Look, we don't feel it's right to have the flesh of an animal, an animal killed for your benefit,'" Mason said. "I see it no different than smoking. People are asked to go outside and smoke."
Evidently, some employees felt their rights were being violated and contacted a local television station who challenged Mason's "no meat" policy. Turns out Mason has taken his cue from no-smoking policies.
Employees, can still eat meat in "designated rooms." They just can't eat meat in the corporate funded vegeteria.
Heaven help the shrinking world of carnivore eating, nicotiana inhaling employees.
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