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Caught a teen smoking in the housewhat to do? Help!?

We have guardianship of my husband's brother, he is 16. Tonight as we were going to bed, I smelled something funny,and thought something was burning. Got up, searched, and finally figured out that the 'shower' he was taking wasn't just that. Opened the door, smoke rolled out! (and steam, but clearly had smoke too.) When asked while in the shower, he said it was just steam. My husband smokes, and has spoken to him many times about him smoking before it is legal. My husband does not and has not ever smoked in our house, around our kids or in the car. He has lived with us for about 9 mos. now, and although I could blame alot on the fact that he hasn't been raised with OUR values, morals, rules, etc. He has been here long enough to know right form wrong. Any ideas on a good punishment? Please no focus on the good, talk it out,what do you expect..your husband smokes, etc. rants. We already do that.

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Yes. It's called a conflict of interest. McDonald's doesn't want to get in an opportunity to sabotage your work there so Burger King can do better, and vice versa.
Many companies will have a clause in the terms of employment that you cannot work for a competitor, so, yeah, its legal and possible.
More than likely. Most companies make you sign a conflict of interest agreement which says you can't work for a competitor.
Braxton's answer is good but.. No one actually knows what a black hole is. It might be a singularity (a single point, like the universe before the big bang) or it might be more. They are formed from a large star (a very predictable mass predicts the way in which a star will die) which collapses under its own gravity when its hydrogen fuel is expended. One feature of a black hole is the event horizon. You are relatively safe outside of this area, but once in there's no escaping its grasp. Some black holes have a stream of particles shooting from the event horizon - hopefully someone can clarify on this. But on average, some of the mass being sucked past the event horizon does escape and is flung into space.
Yes. They can legally fire you for anything that is not a protected class. And working for a competitor is a great reason to fire you, and you wouldn't ever win any unemployment or wrongful termination suits.

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