Smoking rules....

[Crazeyal]

Not sorry for honest opinions.

You addicted yourself to an Opiate clone and now DEMAND special treatment.

TOUGH.

Be glad with what you get, and hope that you break your addiction before it breaks you.

[Dave1982]

My company's official policy regarding smoke breaks is as follows:

"Associates should limit smoking to scheduled breaks."

That having been said, if the manager on duty is in a good mood, it isn't busy, and there aren't any pressing chores that need to be done, you can get a quick 5 minute break for a smoke if you ask nicely (I do not smoke), though every now and then they crack down on it if it gets out of hand.

I don't really care either way, since you can also get a quick break to grab a soda or something under the same conditions as a smoke break.

How's this for an idea? (Aside from quitting). This past Black Friday, the smokers at my store bought a box of nicotine gum and passed that around in order to get through the huge rush.

[sonny100]

Unfortunatley, the non-smokers are NOT allowed to take breaks, unless they are working for 6 hours straight (ie 6 hours either side of lunch)

I can't believe that this topic has had so many replies!

[Tria]

Not sorry for honest opinions.

You addicted yourself to an Opiate clone and now DEMAND special treatment.

TOUGH.

Be glad with what you get, and hope that you break your addiction before it breaks you.

YOU, young lady/man, deserve a standing ovation!

[Rapscallion]

Okay folks. Let's keep this to smoking breaks or otherwise. Not the merits or otherwise of smoking vs giving up. That's fratchingable.

Rapscallion

[Lace Neil Singer]

Tho I have to say, my first impression of the title of the thread is "Smoking rules!" XD

[Fyrehardt]

When I used to work at Taco Bell 90% of the employees smoked (mostly cigarettes.....) That said, anyone, regardless of what or whether they smoked, could go out to smoke if we had downtime. Usually, if it died down, we were all out there at the same time sucking down our cigs and/or soda while watching to see if anyone drove up to the drive thru. Of course, those cig breaks were the only breaks anyone working got, no matter how long of a shift we worked...

[boringscreenname]

Most of the places I've worked had scheduled breaks for everyone and that was it. At my current job it's dead most of the time, and we do maybe an hour's worth of work the entire night, and there's only one person per shift so we don't have the problem of smoke breaks.

[Bella_Vixen]

At my store, if you work 4 hours, you get a 15 minute break and it goes up to and includes 30 minutes for an 8+ hour shift. The smoke fiend of the group understands that his smoke break every hour IS his break. No ifs ands or buts about it. He's cool with that.

[aniwahya]

It amazes me that they put that much thought in to it and then didn't include a rule about smoking well away from the entrances/exits.

As a severe asthmatic people smoking too close to where i'm trying to enter a building throw me into asthma attacks all the time. Especially when they do it at doctors offices and hospitals, but thats another story.

The rules in and of themselves don't seem bad, but I think giving non-smokers the same number of "stress" breaks would be the best way to curb future dissent among smokers and non-smokers. Oh, and please do think about including a policy to smoke well away from where people are trying to get into or out of the building since people with respiratory issues may not be able to tolerate the cig smoke.

[Lace Neil Singer]

That wouldn't be an issue if the smoking ban hadn't included abolishing the smoking room. -.- Blame the government for your health issues cuz if the smoking ban hadn't taken away the smoking room, all those smokers would be happily polluting their own atmosphere within the confines of the smoking room and you wouldn't have to enter it.

[Jester]

Unfortunatley, the non-smokers are NOT allowed to take breaks, unless they are working for 6 hours straight (ie 6 hours either side of lunch)

Well that hardly seems fair. Myself, if I were working there, I would sign up for the smoke breaks, even though I don't smoke. And I would love to see them try to deny me said break on the simple basis that, you know, I don't smoke.

My track record on THAT one is already pretty clear!

[VenomX]

Seems I got it made.

Where I work if I am the inside guy I can smoek as I please right at the counter. If I am the outside guy I can come in lite up and take a few puffs, then go back out. Or even just take a few puffs and lay in down and come back to it.

As my boss says when some people complain about it being smokey in the building, "this is a TOBACCO store, what do you expect it to be like?".

One guy came in daily to get a can of snuff. He would start coughing real loud as soon as he opened the door and b*tch about all the smoke. I finally told him one day after 2 months, that its a TOBACCO/CIGARETTE store, if he couldnt handle the smoke then go someplace else to get his nasty snuff. He hasnt been back as far as I know.

[aniwahya]

That wouldn't be an issue if the smoking ban hadn't included abolishing the smoking room. -.- Blame the government for your health issues cuz if the smoking ban hadn't taken away the smoking room, all those smokers would be happily polluting their own atmosphere within the confines of the smoking room and you wouldn't have to enter it.

While having smoking rooms to keep people from smoking in front of building entrances and exits sounds great on paper, in reality it simply doesn't work.For every person that light's up in the designated smoking area there are two more who light up wherever they feel is most convenient. In one sense even saying anything to try and increase awareness is futile since there are just as many sucky smokers are there are sucky customers. I just try to mention it when I can and where I can so that people who smoke, who don't want to cause a fellow human being to have an asthma attack (or pain from constricting airways). Smokers are not at fault for me having asthma attacks; they are not evil or malicious just for smoking. By the same token though it's not my fault that people can't smoke around me without causing me to have a serious and possibly life-threatening reaction, and I am not evil or malicious for asking smokers to be courteous and smoke in an area that is not going to result in me being unable to breathe (I'm talking about serious reaction, not fear that second hand smoke will kill me 30 years from now).

Pollution, overuse of perfume, spraying aerosol are all things that are just as bad as smoking in irritating COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder).

[crazylegs]

If it's slow, fine, knock yourself out.....

What the hell are your collegues smoking Jester?