re: Company gave non-smokers six extra days off to make up for co-workers' smoke breaks

What he said.

We'd have to wait to start a meeting because of smokers and their breaks. You name it. It adds up with lost work time for them and others.

Whenever I’m a bit late for work it always makes me feel better rolling in the parking lot by all the smokers who technically arrived on time but are just screwing off smoking. I still get to my desk before them.

My former company gave smokers 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the afternoon to smoke. A 100 minutes a week. Just unbelievable.

Man you non smokers are the biggest frickinv whiners ever. First you bitch so much about smoking that companies are now forced to require that smokers walk 3 miles to the dumpster by the tree under the bridge next to the railroad tracks to smoke so you don’t have to smell it. Now you bitch about how long it takes them to get there and back. And his thread will be going strong today during work hours from people bitching about smokers slacking off at work while they themselves post on TD on company time.

Smokers are the most inconsiderate group of people on the planet. FACT.

In 20+ years in the military as a tanker, I can tell you that it can be beneficial to smoke. When in the motor pool, all the smokers would go down to the smoke shack every hour, hence the term "smokin and jokin". I didn't smoke but I dipped on and off but when it was hot as hell and I needed a break, I would bum a cigarette from a buddy just to chill for a minute.

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I want 3 days off for people that shite at work. I go home on my lunch break.

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Taking a dump at work is the best. You're getting paid to take a dump. It's awesome. However, I can understand some people have phobias or problems going in a public restroom. So if that is your deal, I understand.

The only reason why they're forced to is because they'd congregate by the door forcing everyone to smell and breathe their smoke in. And jokes on you, I'm at home.

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I would love it if the company I worked for did this

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Absolutely.

While in high school, I worked at a restaurant and got fired for eating a quick dinner in the back, while it was slow. however the smokers were allowed to have a cigarette even while it was busy, two were even smoking while I was eating. bunch of bullshite.

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Man you non smokers are the biggest frickinv whiners ever. First you bitch so much about smoking that companies are now forced to require that smokers walk 3 miles to the dumpster by the tree under the bridge next to the railroad tracks to smoke so you don’t have to smell it. Now you bitch about how long it takes them to get there and back. And his thread will be going strong today during work hours from people bitching about smokers slacking off at work while they themselves post on TD on company time.

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It's a vicious cycle I tell ya! Several decades worth of workaholic here, but i feel zero guilt perusing TD during work hours at my current place of employment because my company doesn't have anyone with enough power balls to tell the pack of 10 smokers that smoking 3+ hours a day is not kool.