Ban fag breaks
No, I don't smoke. I don't have anything directly against smoking (although walking through a great cloud of smoke to get into the office isn't nice.)

I'd ban those indeterminate fag breaks smokers seem to get as part of being a smoker in addition to statutory breaks. If I were to sit and look at Facebook, write some diatribe on a QOTW site or even just stood outside and messed about with my phone then I'd be accused of wasting time and called lazy.

Just to re-iterate the point, it's the extra fag break time, not the act of smoking I'm against.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 10:05, 11 replies)

In the interests of socially acceptable consumption of depressants on work time
I'm thinking of starting popping outside for the occasional swift half of mild.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 11:18, closed)

Nicotine's actually a stimulant.
So you'd need to have a coffee or similar.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 11:47, closed)

I've made this argument before.
and I've been told that you are actually entitled, as a non-smoker to the same breaks that smokers get, but I doubt management would agree.
(anonymousreality tickled your fancy on, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 11:44, closed)

I brought this up at my last job
i would surf the net when people went for a fag break. My boss who could see my screen didn't say anything untill towards the end of the day. when he asked me what I thought I was doing I said "having a no-smoking break" he thought about it and said "carry on then"
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 13:46, closed)

Whilst you are probably right,
I have noted that throughout my working life, that addicts being addicts, generally just take the piss, and regardless of what is said by management,will smoke for as long and as often as they like, and especially if one of the managers is an addict as well.
Maybe non-smokers should just get an extra day off once a fortnight.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 15:26, closed)

Average of
10 mins per break, 3 breaks per day = 2.5hrs per week. Leave at 3pm on a Friday? Yes please!
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 17:09, closed)

3 breaks a day????????
where I work most of them would take at least 10 minutes an hour.
The smokers are always the last in, by about 5 min, then duck off again after our "team brief", squeeze another 2 between starting and smoko. Then usually a pre-smoko , a couple during smoko, a post smoko, then repeat this between smoko & lunch, then lunch & home time. As well, 1 will go, ask his mates if they're going too, as he's finishing another will show up, so they all have another with them, sometimes 20 min at a time. Depending on which smoker I use, I'm reckoning about 1-1.5 hrs a day.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 1:50, closed)

Don't forget
They'll probably die earlier too, so they won't do as much work, an extra weeks holiday should even it out!
(anonymousreality tickled your fancy on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 0:02, closed)

Management have to agree.
It's law, they're not allowed to discriminate. So either everyone gets breaks, or smokers stay in.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 17:12, closed)

Going on B3ta at work?
Chatting to work mates for a few minutes? Going for a coffee?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 11:48, closed)

Yeah I do that at my store. No smoke break other than your mandatory 15 and 30 minute meals.
They complained for a week, then shut up about it.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 20:17, closed)