Why does this happen at work?

[Bouncing4Tigger]

I too would go out and talk with the smokers. Or go out even without them and call it my fresh air break.

As for feeling back for smokers not being able to smoke indoors, no, sorry I do not feel bad for most. I got pretty tired of smokers that were walking ahead of me or to the side of me turn thier head to exhale thier smoke. Yeah, they did that so it would not go in thier faces, so instead blew it in mine
Now I am not saying all of them, there were those who were nice about it. But it happened often enough

 

[FroggyinArk]

i smoke. i am the direct job supervisor. both of our helpers smoke, dw who owns the bizz, smokes. we smoke when we wantto. never inside acustomers home unless they specifically tell us "you can smoke inside" and never even then, if we are painting the interior, after hte primer goes on. wee ussually smoke while we are outside cutting lumber, etc. when any of us had regular jobs, we smoked during our regulary schedualled breaks,

i agree with the earlier poster though, wait and see, smoking is going to swing back to the accepted norm in the future. spend a little time watching the customers come and go at any tobbacco shop. ninety percent are under thirty. these are the future politicians, and community leaders

 

[Froggyswife]

I have smoked all my adult life and every job I have ever had has had the same breaks for smokers and non smokers alike never have I worked somewhere where smokers were allowed to take hourly smoke breaks. It has always been One in the morning usually 5 to 15 mins depending on the place, One at 12 for lunch either 30 mins or an hour, and One around 2 or 3 pm for either 5 or 15 mins.

I would like to know where all you non smokers work so I can get a job there and take a 15 or 20 min smoke break every hour. But then I would have to close my business and move so I will keep doing what I do best a female carpenter and construction contractor. I don't even let myself take a break to smoke that often.

 

[Honu]

We don't allow smoking anywhere on the property at work and smoking isn't allowed on city sidewalks either. It's not an issue though. With a couple hundred employees, there isn't a smoker among us.

 

[autumnbaby9]

The top boss in our facility used to smoke and the managers that smoked also used to get 'networking' time with him several times a day during smoke brakes. I don't know if it helped them or not but I know that some of the non smoking managers started going out on the smoke breaks just to chit chat, lol.

This reminds me of the Friends episode where Rachel takes up smoking so she can get in on the decision making with her boss .

 

[azgal81]

I do not smoke but I do take my breaks throughout the day that I'm entitled to. If people want to smoke on their break who really cares. No one works every minute of every hour they are supposed to. Whether they chat throughout the day to other co workers, take smoke breaks, make personal calls, take long bathroom breaks or spend time on the internet. I guess I just don't see the big deal that people who are smoking are taking extra breaks.

 

[Beth76]

This reminds me of the Friends episode where Rachel takes up smoking so she can get in on the decision making with her boss .

Yeah, me too! OP, just take a break with the smokers.

 

[snowwite]

Why do some employers allow ppl that smoke have all these extra smoke breaks? Non-msokers do not get this privileges........

I say we all need just as many equal caffiene breaks to theie smoke breaks to equal out how we are paid..........

What does the CB have to say?? any input here??

I know I better get out my flamesuit

I dont think it is fair that they take more breaks and I dont think it is fair that my asthma flares from second hand smoke.Frankly I am sick of hearing about smokers rights. I am sorry your right to suck on a cancer stick interferes with my right to breathe. I think smoking should be banned anyplace except your own home or car (unless you are one of those who carelessly fling butts out the car window in which case you should not be allowed to smoke at all.)
This is probably my biggest peeve.(can ya tell) My dad has NSCLC lung cancer and it is from the poison in cigarrettes. That makes me
When people ask me if I mind if they light I am honest and explain that since DS and I have asthma that yes, I do mind quite a lot thanks. My DH says when someone smokes near where we are eating it makes him want to poop on thier table because it would be just as gross as having to taste thier nasty smoke.

 

[letterdavidman]

No one gets a break for smoking where I work.

I want to work where you work!

 

[Bobbles]

Interesting!

It won't be long before complaints about those who surf the net all day are posted here. They waste as much time as smoke breaks.

I particularly like to hear that some people only post here when they are at work because they are too busy at home.

I'm sure HR would love to hear that.

The bottom line is that smokers smell and that is what offends most non-smokers.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

This reminds me of the Friends episode where Rachel takes up smoking so she can get in on the decision making with her boss .

"I thought you were talking about *whispers* marijuana." LOLOL! I love Friends!

 

[debden]

No one gets a break for smoking where I work.

That's the way it should be everywhere.
Debbie

 

[aprilgail2]

We don't allow smoking anywhere on the property at work and smoking isn't allowed on city sidewalks either. It's not an issue though. With a couple hundred employees, there isn't a smoker among us.

At 2 of my part time jobs (I work a full time job and pick up part time jobs along the year) they will not hire anyone that smokes so it wasn't an issue there-and for exactly the reason that the smokers would take frequent longer breaks and not get as much work done.

 

[Mermaid02]

A guy I work with had a stroke and heart attack while having his smoke break last week. He's in his 40's. I sure hope smoking doesn't make a comeback.

 

[laura001]

At my "everyday" job there is no one that smokes so it is not a problem. However, my DH is GM of a convenience store chain, so I fill in in some stores periodically. One store that I am at quite frequently (to help this manager out) smokes like crazy! So, when I am there or someone else is there to help her out, she spends most of her time smoking, yet she complains about being behind all the time and how she gets nothing done! Geesh!!!

 

[HeatherFeather]

I always thought that was lame too. But my DH goes out with the smokers and chats with them while they smoke (he doesn't). He calls that his "smoke break".

Funny, because when I used to smoke there was a girl that did this too. We told her she was an "honorary smoker."

 

[PrincessMom2002]

It happens where I work too. But nobody in my department smokes so it doesn't bother us. At my old job I used to just go outside with the smokers. It was a great way to make friends and socialize with people I didn't normally work with. And if my boss ever commented about it then I'd point out to him that the non-smokers were entitled to get up from their desks for breaks too. I don't believe the employee handbook stated that the breaks were strictly for smokers. The thing that does bother me is the ones who take way more breaks than allowed and nothing ever gets said to them. But I'm not the boss so my opinion doesn't count!

 

[Lauralee131]

I dont think it is fair that they take more breaks and I dont think it is fair that my asthma flares from second hand smoke.Frankly I am sick of hearing about smokers rights. I am sorry your right to suck on a cancer stick interferes with my right to breathe. I think smoking should be banned anyplace except your own home or car (unless you are one of those who carelessly fling butts out the car window in which case you should not be allowed to smoke at all.)
This is probably my biggest peeve.(can ya tell) My dad has NSCLC lung cancer and it is from the poison in cigarrettes. That makes me
When people ask me if I mind if they light I am honest and explain that since DS and I have asthma that yes, I do mind quite a lot thanks. My DH says when someone smokes near where we are eating it makes him want to poop on thier table because it would be just as gross as having to taste thier nasty smoke.

Hey Snowwite...question for you...is your asthma possibly related to being around your dad - who I'm assuming has been a smoker your whole life? I ask because there's been a link between second hand smoke and asthma. BUT you say your DS has it too? That stamps out my theory I guess... Just curious

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I'm not sure what the laws are, but my college DD had a problem at the job she was working this summer (at a restaurant). The smokers (most everyone, according to her) took smoking breaks, but she typically got no breaks since she was operating the cash register and needed to be the only one on the drawer. The problem is that she gets migraines if she doesn't eat every 4 or so hours, but didn't get a break, even if she was working a 6 hour (or longer) shift. And she wasn't forceful about speaking up. Not sure how they handled the register when someone who smoked worked it. She still works the job when she comes home for weekends and she still hasn't worked that out.

 

[debbiedoo]

That's the way it should be everywhere.
Debbie

That is how it should be but it is not. That is why we started taking extra long lunches and/or our caffiene breaks which really upset the smokers.........and we called it fair game

At my place of work we figured out an 8 hour shift person is only working 5 and 1/2 hours (the smokers) so of course the non-smokers are upset. If they are allowed too then why are we not? Keep in mind 1/2 hour of that is their lunch and the other 2 hours is their smoke breaks.......

all is fair in love and war??