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25 years ago, when smoking was still accepted and ubiquitous in Europe[1], I studied engineering physics with a focus on semiconductor engineering. Naturally I
by weinzierl 2y ago
25 years ago, when smoking was still accepted and ubiquitous in Europe[1], I studied engineering physics with a focus on semiconductor engineering. Naturally I spent some time in clean rooms and visited companies with clean rooms. They said they had the right to discriminate against smokers when hiring. They also said it was useless to lie, because they could immediately see on their monitoring when a smoker entered the clean room.
Not necessarily the reason in OPs case, just saying there can be valid reasons to discriminate against smokers.
[1] We once had a visit from a former student of our faculty who went to the USA for his masters. He gave a lecture about his experiences and when asked what the biggest differences were he said, he was shocked to see people smoking in our university hallways. If it wasn't for that event I would have completely forgotten how prevalent smoking still was at the end of the 90s.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoNot as plausible for a remote software engineering position.
- giantg2 2y agoStill doesn't seem valid to me. A smoker could shower and stuff before work and only use a nicotine patch until they're off-duty again.
- weinzierl 2y agoYou can't shower your lungs. Have you seen the pictures of smoker lungs? They look completely different from healthy lungs.
- giantg2 2y agoAre the lungs causing contamination, especially if wearing a non-vented N95?
- weinzierl 2y agoThe clean room work environments I saw didn't have people wear masks. They had special suits though, that made them look a bit like people in the old Star Trek movies. The reason that was explain to us was that working several hours every day in an environment with high volume vertical air flow was uncomfortable without padding in the shoulder parts.