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Only In Sports Would You Have To Put This In Writing!

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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Only in sports would you have to put it in writing that an employee cannot engage in "substance abuse" or be "habitually intoxicated", otherwise you could be fired.

Bob Huggins' new contract states that he he can be fired for substance abuse or habitual intoxication affecting his job performance. Truly amazing.

Imagine this scenario:

You aka employee: You show up for work.
Your boss aka employer: Tells you you're fired.
You aka employee: "Why?!"
Your boss aka employer: I caught you using drugs / regularly showing up to work drunk.
You aka employee: What?! You mean I can't use take a hit or snort a line / have a 40 or take a couple of shots while I'm working? I never knew!

/s/ JackWESQ

P.S. You aka employee: I'm going to sue you for wrongful termination / breach of contract!
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Comments

  • Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    It says "habitually intoxicated." That means that occasionally showing up blitzed is OK.
  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
    Good point. Showing up drunk for work every now and then is okay. Just don't let it become a "habit."

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys got it wrong. Only "if it affects his job performance"

    If he is drunk every day, but WV still makes the tournament, they can't fire him.
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  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358
    Language like this is in a lot of contracts outside of sports. My union agreement has something similar to what SI describes
    Tom
  • mkg809mkg809 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭
    My boss actually furnished us with alcohol at work. It was a great place. It's always more fun running machinery when buzzed.
    I guess that's why it shut down last week because of lack of work and I'm looking for a job.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,492 ✭✭✭✭✭
    don't forget civil service!
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  • mkg809mkg809 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭
    Look what happened today!!!!



    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia University officials say basketball coach Bob Huggins has been taken to a hospital in Charlotte, N.C., for precautionary reasons after tripping on an airport tarmac and hitting his head on the pavement.

    Athletic director Ed Pastilong says Huggins had a bump on his head, and never lost consciousness.
    Pastilong says Huggins and other athletic department staff flew to Charlotte on Thursday morning for a Mountaineer Athletic Club event. After Huggins got off the plane, he was checking his cell phone messages when he tripped over a cone on the tarmac and hit his head.
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