The unfairness of smoking breaks!!!

Dorisx

I smoke but I dont drink tea or coffee - so I spend 5minutes of my day outside smoking .. others take 5 minutes in the kitchen making a tea or coffee.

Like another poster said 'swings and roundabouts'

I'm sure if you asked for a break you'd get one, and if not then just say you smoke - leave the office at the same time as a smoker and return when they do ... simple!

vyle

soothyerboots wrote: »

The word 'petty' comes to mind.

I dunno, where I work, some smokers get two to three 10 minute fag breaks a day. That adds up, and it means that those who remain are doing the other person's job, while theyre getting a paid break. An hour or two a week, every week for a year means they're getting an extra week and a bit paid holiday a year vs non smokers who have to actually work.

JulieElizabeth

It's not the smoking break that would annoy me, but the fact that someone you share an office with can come back absolutely reeking of cheap fags on an hourly basis

Yuk

LisaB85

Leory wrote: »

I dont smoke, but I do go for particularly long turd breaks, so it evens itself out really :beer:

Lol I used to do that, go sit on the loo for 5 minutes if it was cold outside x

scheming_gypsy

How many people who complain about people taking smoking breaks, complain about Muslims going for prayers? They're all too happy discriminating against smokers but they won't discriminate against Muslims..

and no i don't smoke, i just stop working for 5 minutes whenever I feel like taking a break. I don't have to go and stand in the cold / rain / snow to do it like the smokers do though.

crazyguy

I have done some work on various sites that are non smoking and some are very xtreme one site we were on you could not even smoke outside of the building and had to leave the actual site completely for a cig, that was an absoloute joke I just took no notice of them and carried on as could not see the difference in smoking 20 foot away from the building or 50 foot, oh the nanny state we live in now.

BottomRung

Where I work we must register as a smoker, are allowed 2 15 minutes breaks which must be made up on the same day and not in the lunch hour. If we cannot take one of the breaks or both, we must still make up 30 minutes a day as we are registered as smokers, even if we can't take the break due to being in a meeting or on a call or talking to a customer. I have stopped smoking at work now as it is really quite pathetic that they are discriminating against smokers in this way. Especially when my colleagues spend half the day chatting about football etc. I had my salary deducted last month by 15 quid as I had made up my time but on a different day. When they made the deduction they didn;t tell me what it would be or why and just reduced my basic salary rather than show it as a deduction, which i'm pretty sure is illegal but they don't give a cr*p as everyone is replaceable to them. So now I get in dead on 9 and leave dead on 5 whereas before I would have freely given them extra time if needed. I now have lost all respect for this greedy company, who funnily enough are having the busiest couple of years they ever had.

Azari

vyle wrote: »

I dunno, where I work, some smokers get two to three 10 minute fag breaks a day. That adds up, and it means that those who remain are doing the other person's job, while theyre getting a paid break. An hour or two a week, every week for a year means they're getting an extra week and a bit paid holiday a year vs non smokers who have to actually work.

You've just demonstrated the veracity of soothyerboots' comment.

davidlizard

The more they smoke, the more tax they are paying. Which means that is less tax you will need to pay. And many of them kindly turn up their toes earlier in life keeping pension contributions down.

Smokers contribute £10bn in tax to the economy, but require just £2bn in NHS treatment. Divide this £8bn around the UKs 26 million income tax payers and that means £300 less tax we pay.

Enough for a weekend break away in Europe.

VfM4meplse

Fag breaks should not be sanctioned, end of.

Isn't it a matter of time before a genius smoker ends up suing his company for their contribution to a smoking-related disease?