Here are some of the exceptions to the at-will employment doctrine: 1  An employee cannot be fired for a discriminatory reason. 2  An employee cannot be fired out of retaliation for performing a legally protected action. 3  An employee with a contract that outlines the terms of employment cannot be fired outside of those terms. In other words, contracts supersede at-will employment assumptions. Some states also provide protections for implied (unwritten) contracts. Check your local laws.
Amethyst is a very common gemstone and can be found in or on a wide variety of rocks, including granite rock formations and agate geodes. It is used to make jewelry in the form of cut stones, beads and calves, and is also admired in natural form, ranging in size from very tiny singular crystals to over 6 ft tall geodes.methyst is a very common gemstone and can be found in or on a wide variety of rocks, including granite rock formations and agate geodes. It is used to make jewelry in the form of cut stones, beads and calves, and is also admired in natural form, ranging in size from very tiny singular crystals to over 6 ft tall geodes.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Amethyst (disambiguation) . Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry. The name comes from the Ancient Greek á¼ a- (not) and Î¼Î­Î¸ÏÏÏÎ¿Ï methystos (mÃ©thystos), intoxicated a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from. drunkennessmethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO 2) and owes its violet color to irradiation, iron impurities (in some cases in conjunction with transition element impurities), and the presence of trace elements, which result in complex crystal lattice substitutions.