Refused a job because I smoke....

hamstercheeks_2

SailorSam wrote: »

How would you feel tomsolomon if you were working in an office, shop, or factory and you had to cover for a colleague 5 or 10 times a day while they nipped out for a quick pint, then had to work with the stink of ale all day.
Cigarettes are no different.

show me a workplace that would even allow that to happen!! There's absolutely nowhere that would allow anybody (not in this day and age) to have 5/10 cig breaks a day.

Rolandtheroadie

Ok, lets assume 9 to 5 working hours.
Start work at 9 (last cig extinguished to let you get to desk for 9), 10 min break at 10:30 means 1.5 hrs without a cig (2 in 10 mins). Not the end of the world. Thats you till say 1pm. Then 30 min break? quick cig, something to eat, another cig. Then on till 3pm, another 10 min break, another 2 cigs.
Thats me had 6 cigs and not impacted on my work at all. Trouble is, whilst smokers are smoking, non-smokers are eating mars bars and thinking of ways to make them look like victims. "ooooh, they get more breaks than me".

I dont smoke any more but I totally sympathise with smokers. Sure, they smell of cigarette smoke. Just like you smell of mars bars.

dmg24

hamstercheeks wrote: »

some tips for smokers to avoid the 'dreaded' smell

Stop smoking.

hamstercheeks_2

that's my choice to stop or continue

Rolandtheroadie

Stop or continue. Thats a point.

I was 40 a day, had stopped in the past but always started again. Began to hate the £10 per day I was spending. There was also someone at work who smoked rollups but kept asking me for cigarettes (smoking for 2). Then they made us go outside to smoke (hence why I stopped in a winter month) light up, 2 draws, back in.

Stopped by using the losenge (just incase anyone wants to stop) altho I only stopped the losenges in July this year (17 months later) as I ran out on holiday and couldnt get them.

marksoton

I could never work in a conventional office, such bigoted ,restrictive and judgmental places !

It's beyond me why people aspire to work in such an environment.

To be honest if you want to smoke in this day and age you have to work in a sector where it is still generally accepted.

PasturesNew

dmg24 wrote: »

I think that most people who are truly handicapped or disabled would find your comment very offensive.

Not sure about that, I realise that I use my smoking as a prop against my anxiety because of my aspergers. It helps me slow my breathing and bring down my panics when I've hit a brick wall and everything's just gone Pete Tong. It helps me to focus my mind and get straight again. While in the workplace this isn't an issue, but outside of the workplace, interacting with people/normal daily life, it's certainly something that's helped. And once it's got you in its grip you do smoke more. But I now realise why I smoke and what I use it for.

Without smoking I'd become irrational and angsty.

PasturesNew

I'd say, during a working day, I can stretch to smoking once mid morning and once mid afternoon; it's been remarked how quickly I smoke by just about everybody - most are stunned when I am back inside 2 minutes. I smoke about 10/day, although if I have to leave the house and go out with the great unwashed it's about 15/day.

There are other things that might be called time-wasting: touching up your makeup in the loos, chatting round a coffee machine, showing photos of your family/kids/holiday, looking at the photos of other people's family/kids/holidays, just checking email/ebay on the office PC. I don't do any of those. Apart from my twice daily smoko I'm a heads down, crack on with the work and don't talk to anybody person.

maman

I'm amazed that there are workplaces where smokers are given more breaks than other workers. I always thought that if you happened to be a smoker you did it in your lunch break or any other break that you were entitled to like everyone else. Where do they get special xtra smoking breaks?

PasturesNew

I did actually work for one employer who made smokers clock out and in again for fag breaks. It was a manual clocking system - and the cards are only so wide per day, so there was a maximum times you could do it - it might have been 3. And yes, at the end of the week if you were down across the week by one minute on your clockcard your money was docked for it.