Quote: El Barbudo "Before the workplace smoking ban, at my workplace they banned smoking in the office but allowed smokers to use a special manky room.
The non-smokers said it wasn't fair that smokers could just slope off whenever they felt like it, so the employers thought they'd reward the non-smokers with extra hols instead.
I can't remember the number of days it came down to ... but a colleague worked it out that it was the equivalent of being out of the office for ten fags per working day, which wasn't fair, as he was a twenty-a-day non-smoker.'"
Fooking right. Used to drive me potty. When I worked for a long defunct tour operator many years ago we almost had a mutiny, so many staff were spending hours each day outside, leaving the rest of us covering for them. Lazy smelly wasters with yellow teef.
6 cigs a day @ 15 minutes per cig = 1.5 hours x 5 days = 7.5 hours a week. A whole working day, each week, lost to fellating a cancer stick. 40+ish days per year (allowing for 4 weeks leave and Lubbock holidays). And why? "Because I'm an addict." Oh really, well let me just pop out ferra wee dram o' Jamiesons or a quick punt on Betfair.
Never hire smokers or women of a certain age.