steve wrote:If my job allows me to take breaks, and I take them, then fuck anybody who says I can't smoke on them. It's my break, and I'm smoking if I want to. If you think I shouldn't be taking those breaks just to smoke, then go fuck yourself. The only reason it matters at all is that smokers aren't allowed to smoke on the job. This encourages them to take the breaks they're entitled to so they can smoke on them.

For the record, the job in question does not allow 10 minute breaks every hour. It's up to the employee to use their good judgement when it comes to when they take their smoke breaks and for how long.

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steve wrote:If my job allows me to take breaks, and I take them, then fuck anybody who says I can't smoke on them. It's my break, and I'm smoking if I want to. If you think I shouldn't be taking those breaks just to smoke, then go fuck yourself. The only reason it matters at all is that smokers aren't allowed to smoke on the job. This encourages them to take the breaks they're entitled to so they can smoke on them.

For the record, the job in question does not allow 10 minute breaks every hour. It's up to the employee to use their good judgement when it comes to when they take their smoke breaks and for how long.

If they are taking them and nobody fires them for taking them, then they are allowed.

steve wrote:

heather wrote:i am crazy about blow-pops (keep your comments to yourself) and my dentist is pissed, but i don't take a 10 minute break every hour to have one, nor would anyone let me.

If my job allows me to take breaks, and I take them, then fuck anybody who says I can't smoke on them. It's my break, and I'm smoking if I want to. If you think I shouldn't be taking those breaks just to smoke, then go fuck yourself. The only reason it matters at all is that smokers aren't allowed to smoke on the job. This encourages them to take the breaks they're entitled to so they can smoke on them.

It's a manufacured problem.

you can smoke all you like on your break. you are allowed a 30 minute break for every 7.5 hours you work in illinois. you are not entitled to take a 10 minute break every hour so you can feed your nicotine addiction. nothing encourages people to smoke except their need to smoke. if you don't have the ability to work an entire hour a without taking a break then you should move to canada and join a band. the government might even pay you -canadian money- to make canadian music and you can smoke until a giant tumor bursts in you chest. your decision- not mine. i'll even let you smoke around me!

once again, you are not entitled to take a 10 minute break after working for 75minutes straight. what the balls-- it's a job. suck it up.

hardworking folks in most american cities are not allowed to smoke WHILE they are working. if you have a problem with that then you should argue that point, but know that no one is "entitled" to take a break every hour. unless a person was lucky enough to be born into a wealthy family, then you have to get a job. and you know, working, not so hard. i had a guy have a heart attack in front of me friday. he vommitted, fell on the floor and lost his pulse. it was my "job" to make sure he was taken care of by a medical professional. i did it and went back to work.

and steve, what is up with the swearing already? too much i think.

I quit this year after a decade of smoking. I was pretty much forced to quit since I had bronchitis for much several months and honest to god it did feel like it was killing me. It occurs to me I would probably be able to afford a house by now on the money I spent on a habit that has made me pretty ill. CRAP CRAP CRAP basically.

I wish everyone would be courteous about their smoking though. I really do. For the last two years I smoked I decided that I wasn't going to smoke in public places at all. I mean if I was absolutely paralytic in a club I guess I still smoked indoors a couple of times but these were isolated incidents. At the end of the day it's a silly fucking habit as I mentioned above and you should go out of your way to be as conscientious about your smoking as you can.

same wrote:For the record, the job in question does not allow 10 minute breaks every hour. It's up to the employee to use their good judgement when it comes to when they take their smoke breaks and for how long.

So, your problem is that your adjudgment of your co-worker's break is that it is ill-timed. Your co-worker has judged that when he wants a smoke is a perfectly good time to take a break. Sounds like it's his call. Well-bowled, smoker.

heather wrote:...then you should move to canada and join a band. the government might even pay you -canadian money- to make canadian music and you can smoke until a giant tumor bursts in you chest. your decision- not mine. i'll even let you smoke around me!

Can someone please explain to me how you go about getting one of these rock band "grants" in Canada I keep hearing about on this board? I could use a new telecaster and a half stack, after all...

steve wrote:

same wrote:For the record, the job in question does not allow 10 minute breaks every hour. It's up to the employee to use their good judgement when it comes to when they take their smoke breaks and for how long.

So, your problem is that your adjudgment of your co-worker's break is that it is ill-timed. Your co-worker has judged that when he wants a smoke is a perfectly good time to take a break. Sounds like it's his call.

Not that it's ill-timed as much as it's too long and frequent. And if we all acted on every impulse and desire we had while at our jobs we'd all be fired, or at least hated by our coworkers.

I had TB. I have a permanent scar in each lung. I should not be smoking. Yet I eat up Regal like they are food. I should vote not crap considering, yet I know it is crap, like all addictive useless substances.

Smoking is crap.

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steve wrote:

same wrote:For the record, the job in question does not allow 10 minute breaks every hour. It's up to the employee to use their good judgement when it comes to when they take their smoke breaks and for how long.

So, your problem is that your adjudgment of your co-worker's break is that it is ill-timed. Your co-worker has judged that when he wants a smoke is a perfectly good time to take a break. Sounds like it's his call.

Not that it's ill-timed as much as it's too long and frequent. And if we all acted on every impulse and desire we had while at our jobs we'd all be fired, or at least hated by our coworkers.

I'm pretty sure your co-workers hate you already

I know I'd hate Marspamialized a lot less if he didn't post 30 times a day.

Same with that spammed fly.