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Darkraven6 -> RE: Smoker Descrimination (8/6/2006 2:52:48 PM)
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Ive been in the medical field for over twenty years....and recently myself and other nurses in good standings, have handed in our licenses, due to the way the medical field has become more for business and turning a profit then in actually the care and help of patients. It wasnt something we took lightly, nor are we far from the only ones doing so.
Unfortunitly, in todays world, here anyway, what shoud be, or in alot of cases, the laws and simple respect of ones rights, no longer matter, unless you happen to be well off, or related to someone well off, which seems to make one have "power". Thus, huge companys, government, and others in the select groups, can seem to pick and choose what laws will apply and to whom and when. Seldom, will you find those in these groups judging themselves, but they do not hessitate to do so to anyone outside of their groups.
One has to wonder, when while driving to work, a cig in hand, hand resting on the top of the wheel, and just above down the road, are huge smoke stacks from one of the six mills in the area, huge billowing clouds of smoke rolling out of each....you cant help but wonder how your smoking a cig, can be so much worse then something like that...and I see it every day.
Right along with hearing about how a mother is fighting to keep her small child away from a father that is extreamly abusive to his children, and the judge stating that the past record of the father "wont be used in this case", or how this or that law "wont be used in this case". Or the lawyer who sees nothing wrong with handing a child molester custody of a two year old child. Or the worker who gets literally handicapped due to a work injury, witnesses there to agree the worker did indeed get hurt on the job, and the employer stating that she "threw out the doctors notes," and "didnt bother" to file a workmans comp form....and the state, ruling the worker will get nothing, because she saw two doctors, who refused to treat her condition, had to see a third doctor who finally did agree to an MRI and found that her back was shattered, and the bone shards had cut into the spinal cord, and now, shes crippled for life. She will get nothing, and has three children to support and rent to pay and meds to take the rest of her life. Im sure, there are many, many more situations that are just as bad and worse then just these, but, they happen every day, and they are allowed, just like the companys that can tell you what you will and can do away from your job, or that if your over weight you cant work here etc....
We can all Im sure state many injustices...and unfortunitly, like its been stated prior to my babbling, is anyone really listening? Because, no one really seems to care enough to try and stop it....sometimes, I wonder if it would take a civil war all over agian to change things.....but, untill then, its at least nice to have a place to vent at times, and to see maybe that your not the only one to see that things here are really messed up. Blessings to you all...
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