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Look, I understand that you have an addiction. Me, I’m addicted to push-pins. Right now, I have a push-pin of Africa, including Madagascar on my cubicle wall. So yes, I understand addiction. However, my addiction doesn’t allow me anywhere between 2 – 4 extra breaks at my job.
I thought that I was hardly working until I peeped what our office smokers were getting away with. “I have to go smoke a bud,” they’d say. “I’m stressed out, I’ll be right back,” they’d say. No matter the excuse, they are briskly headed for the exits and no one could be the wiser.
Except for me, the non-smoker. It’s not like they Febreeze themselves before coming back. You can smell the nicotine from 10 cubicle aisles away, not to mention the hot breath they acquired while eating an onion bagel just 20 minutes before. I just don’t understand how these people can get away with extra breaks, yet would monitor me if I so happen to come back 10 minutes late from lunch.
I don’t have any tips to stop the ‘Break Hustlers’ from doing their business. I’ll just be damned if every day their smoke breaks equal up to an extra hour of free time and I am not getting mine. When I walk back into the office with lunch from Popeye’s and you know that it takes 20 minutes each way to get there, not including the time it takes to get my car out of the lot, you’ll then realize who the true guru of hardly working is… smoke that!
I thought that I was hardly working until I peeped what our office smokers were getting away with. “I have to go smoke a bud,” they’d say. “I’m stressed out, I’ll be right back,” they’d say. No matter the excuse, they are briskly headed for the exits and no one could be the wiser.
Except for me, the non-smoker. It’s not like they Febreeze themselves before coming back. You can smell the nicotine from 10 cubicle aisles away, not to mention the hot breath they acquired while eating an onion bagel just 20 minutes before. I just don’t understand how these people can get away with extra breaks, yet would monitor me if I so happen to come back 10 minutes late from lunch.
I don’t have any tips to stop the ‘Break Hustlers’ from doing their business. I’ll just be damned if every day their smoke breaks equal up to an extra hour of free time and I am not getting mine. When I walk back into the office with lunch from Popeye’s and you know that it takes 20 minutes each way to get there, not including the time it takes to get my car out of the lot, you’ll then realize who the true guru of hardly working is… smoke that!
5 comments:
I'm not a smoker. However, being in the military for over 12 years, I've mastered the art of "taking smoke breaks" a long time ago. But I'll caveat even further. It's deadly to inhale smoke from cigarettes, yet it's more than acceptable in society to smoke in public, walking down the street or even around kids (Eventhough, second hand smoke is deadly). But if I play loud music in my vehicle as I pass you, you have to endure it for 5 - 15 seconds. Once I'm gone, there's no long term side effects. Yet, it's illegal and I'm looked at as a nuissance. WTF is up with that?
I do not smoke either Redpuppy and I can not stand the fact that it's acceptable to take 10 smoke breaks a day. If I want to take a break from work or just take a breather then it's a problem.
Stop hating... GEEZ!! If u so upset, start smoking, cuz u really need to relax anyway... pretend even, if ur so bent out of shape ... if not STFU!
Hmm someone needs to relax relate & release. Well I just tell my supervisor I'm going out for a smoke break, he in turn tells me that I don't even smoke. I tell him yea I know & go outside & let some air blow through my butt (get some air) anyway.
LMAO Sailor you are a trip!
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