Random Pet Peeve
Random Pet Peeve: Smokers who take too many breaks.
May 4, 2009 |
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Smokers support farmers and our economy by their indulgence in this consumer product, courtesy of our Native American brethren & sisteren.
Not to mention the billions the US Government rakes in from all the taxes paid on tobacco products. So, let’s not kill the Golden Goose, Olive.
But, if cigarette smokers get breaks to feed their habit, why not pot-smokers, pill-poppers, smack shooters, coke sniffers, meth jammers, booze drinkers and people with fetishes?
Sorry, but I have to go take a 15-minute break for an enema to be administered by Olive.
Later…
omg i totally agree with you on there there like yea i need to take a break and then 15 minutes later yeah i need to take a break i mean okay yeah its an addiction but so it sex addiction but you dont see me having sex everyhwere
i totally agree with u on that its so bull when there like aww i have smoke 15 minutes later aww i have to smoke its like umm yea it might be an addiction but yeah know so is sex and u dont see me doing that all over the place
Sounds like this a compound peeve.. You have a distaste for smoking and you have a grudge against people who exploit work time.. Because you do, for all intents and purposes seem kinda like a work nazi.. This is gonna hurt me as much as it might hurt you, but I would wager that you are a mega control freak and that you actually are brought to tears when things do not go as you would like them to.. While smoking is in fact deadly, I would also point out that stress is just as much so.. A pet peeve is pretty much an obssesion with a thing that you cannot control.. Check your B.P. next time someone commits one of your peeves.. Point is, don’t sweat the little stuff, there are more important shits to worry about.. Like that comet with words “fucking idiots” stamped on the side of it..(all garammatical mistakses we’re the soul intenetion of these authoor and I blatalantly-tantly stand in them) W was a hero oh mine an I mo miss that sunavabitch..
I agree with you on this topic. Us non-smokers should get an extra week off per year to make up for it!!!!
Crazy I would always say the same thing. Damn smokers! Its a privalege not a right.
Oh god I loved the end “If you are, put it out…” -Grin- Haha!
Olviia, your one to talk, your smoking 24/7
<3
I recently read how bad smoking was for you so i gave up reading…..
AMEN Olivia!
WOW real talk
wow tht put it out was hella sexy
O sorry, just came back from a smoke break..missed anything?
yes this is so true
and if you were like oh well im just going to go smoke some crack
noooooo tobacco is ok but not crack
Well, the Old Dominion loves smokers. Still a big business, as Nick Nailer.
my bad. but i totally went and had a cigarette after i watched this, to think about what you said olivia. haha…
i guess i can see her point as a non smoker, but i personally disagree because for my shitty minimum wage job i probably would have fucking dipped someone’s head into the fryer if i didn’t get a little smoke break with my coworkers, ya know, like a second to go outside and chit chat behind the manager’s back and pollute our lungs, just a small measure of relief.
And yea people will say, “oh well nobody made u work there” to which i would reply, well i needed the money and it was the only place i could get a job cuz not everyone gets hired at fucking american eagle or some other preppy store.
Tell people you’re going to go watch an episode of Robot Chicken, as this is more neurologically refreshing and therefore more pertinent than smoking.
“Put it out” with the attitude, and then the smile, cool. I used to live around 3 smokers, which sucked.
life will kill you.
Smokers are idiots. I used to be one.
My smoke breaks take about three minutes, and I might take five per day. So that’s 15 minutes, not an hour, thank you. I mean, I’m allowed two 15-minute breaks anyway, and I only take one. If you want to spend your rightful break taking a nap, I’m sure no one would care. So there. It’s far more annoying to see people chatting in the halls or playing solitaire on their computers. Also, you know what else kills? Skin cancer.
i LOVED this . it happens at my work all the effing time … im like ok youre going to take a 10 min smoke break why cant i watch aots ? i hate it when i miss my favorite show because of work i need my aots break !!! another thing i hate is when smokers do their hacking up a lung cough then dont wash their hands its just nasty people
I agree with you Olivia. I myself am a smoker. I know, I know; it will kill me. I already have a heart disorder thanks to it. But, quiting is really hard to do. But the reason I agree with this is because I don’t need to take a break ever 10 minutes or so just to have a cigg. I understand that my job comes first and pleasure comes second. Unless your a pornstar and then it’s one and the same, butanyways… The people who do this makes things harder on use who do follow the break rules because we end up paying for their mistakes. I now have to wait for my lunch break to have a cigg, and even then I have to walk across the parking lot to my car to do it because they have banned it on company grounds.
I agree with the people who say a break is a break… it has nothing to do with smoking. I’ve seen the same thing happen with excessively chatty types, Internet browsing, reading personal email, etc..etc…
The best thing to do is not participate when people try to rope you in. That way when a supervisor does get pissed because work isn’t being completed, you are in the clear. It also helps build credibility for not meeting your own deadlines — you won’t have something like this happen.
“I didn’t have enough time to finish the report / skit / etc.”
“You mean between all those personal phone calls? ”
“Oh…uh… ummm…”
You might be surprised to discover who all notices and keeps track of work ethic and time management issues.
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As for the McDonalds masturbation comment, that probably explains why I had mayo on a double cheeseburger the other night.
“ba-da-da-da-da! I’m loving it.” :^(
Ditto.
Olivia-
I TOTALLY agree with you! I’m stuck chained to my desk for 12 hours a day without a lunch break or a chance to take a break at all just to go outside and breath some fresh air (we have no windows), but somehow, even in the middle of our busiest times, the smokers find a way to duck out for a smoke break, leaving me to take on everything by myself.
There you go, I agree, its true and stupid i hate it, i had a job that i worked at got a 15 min break that was it smokers get a 15 minute smoke break almost every hour….lame…and its bad for you and gross XP
I have to agree as well, same with the comment below from army guy.
I’m in the USAF and ppl just cut off work for a smoke break all the time…It’s dumb. Something definately has to be done.
I have to agree to this 100% Im in the Army, when i was a private I would work hard and then soldiers would ask for a smoke break, so they got it. and i would be the only one left there like what am i suppose to do, so i just kept working.As you know, everybody in the Army either smokes or dips. nasty! now that i made it up the ranks, they would ask me for smoke breaks, but i kept them limited only if there isnt a lot of work to be done. have to regulate those smokers!
WEAK
and i mean weak…. i am a ex smoker but i don’t care if others want to spend time in the rain or snow and shit. non smokers get other breaks, right?… all i know is that we do here.
so to all you non and ex smokes out there plz stop your bitching you can get breaks in other ways, like me.
I take masturbating breaks at my McDonalds job, AND I DONT WASH MY HANDS AFTERWORDS!!
i’m a manager for a night club in new mexico and yes you are right i tell my bartenders that where not here to smoke, where to make drinks and money!!!
It is amazing how much time smokers get away with; I work with a guy who spends something like three hours in an eight hour shift outside smoking. Now, mind you, our job has a lot of downtime, but 3 hours? Great jumpin Jeebus on a pogo stick! If I went HOME for three hours, I’d get leave time taken from me, but this dude sits on his ass staring at the stars for three hours a night while he tokes away. That’s just BS.
pie breaks and beating off breaks only
you’re right Olivia… smoking blows
I 100% agree with you Oliva everybody looks at smoking like its a natural thing but when you just want to get some fresh air they give you the evil eye I completely agree with you. and I also hate smoking too.
too many breaks? tell the boss. the boss smokes and takes too many breaks? tell the owners. the owners smoke? find a new job. nextttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
I have to agree with Peter, Isaac and a number of others, however, must remind people of the topic, “Issues with the number of breaks ‘given’ to smokers.” I’ve worked several places with different smoking regulations, (id est, smoking distances, designated smoking areas, number of breaks and time allowances.) Now I agree that some don’t like the smell of cigarettes and that’s fine, I wouldn’t want someone sitting next to me stinking of a cat’s litterbox. That boils down to common courtesy, as does the number of breaks taken by smokers. I’m lenient of “free time,” with my employees. Free time is different for all people. For some it takes form as a snack break, others a smoke break. It can be a pie break, or a “damn-it-all” I’m going to sit in my car and huff glue… point being, if you have a problem with the break time… take it up with your boss. If he/she is a competent leader she/he will realize that a, “smoke break” is simply a break in general. A break in general is something that everyone can use. Whether its to masterbate in the bathroom, watch housewives of ny or to sit in my office and talk to me about whatever.
I’ve seen more “lazy” people that take the form of non-smokers than smokers. And I feel the need to stand up for the respectful smokers out there. They only take two or one breaks, back at their desk with hands washed, pleasant smelling and ready to work. Compare that to the number of non-smokers whom take breaks leave and someone has to go looking for them…
Instead of grouping all smokers into a label of sum-of-all scumbags you differentiate the lot. Just as there are lazy non-smokers who waste more time collectively than others does not give me the right to lump them all into that label.
I’m a non-smoker but feel that a lot of people give into an image of disgust even when there are smokers that are socially conscious of their actions. Knock it off. Stereotypes are for jackasses.
FUCK SMOKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ¿
Smoking doesn’t kill, smoking over 20-30 years kill, Tobacco helped build this country……It is annoying though when some smokers take like 30 breaks a day
Smoking doesn’t kill….Smoking over 20-30 years kills…..It is annoying though when some smokers take 30 breaks a day to go and smoke.
Damn Smokers caused this recession
Damn smokers! I’ll never understand smoking.
When somebody makes the excuse, “But it’s an addiction!” I say, “But an addiction has to be BUILT UP! It takes a while. You have to WORK AT IT!”
I could tell the minute I got my first whiff as a kid that smoking was some’n stupid I needed to stay away from.
Of course, I find it somewhat ironic that there’s an ad for the Quick Roller cigarette machine off to the right here.
Very true, Ms. Munn, and it’s an understandable peeve to pet. Drugs are for thugs. I don’t do drugs.
haha.true story.true story
Smokers are Jokers!
I am a smoker and I have to say I disagree. At work, I take the same amount of breaks as everyone else (2 “coffee” breaks and a lunch). However, where my smoke breaks last for 15 minutes, the non-smokers tend to take 30 minutes per break because they are all sitting together gossiping.
WORD OLIVIA! We got an asshole at work that takes fifty fuckin smoke breaks a day. The reason he gets away with it? The manager is out there smoking with him. I bet they’re smoking each others poles. This is my pet peeve as well.
haha, this same thing was on Loveline a bit ago!