You had an ashtray on your desk?
Living. The. Dream.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 12:40, 4 replies)

This was the 20th Century

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 12:42, closed)

Doesn't make it any less strange a boast.
Or maybe it was so shit a job, and so badly paid, that having an ashtray was the highlight.

Meh. I remember spluttering my way through seminars full of smokers, and I could barely see my examiners during my viva for the smoke in the room. I don't miss those days one bit.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 13:22, closed)

I used to work for a Korean company 20 years ago
There was an ashtray on every desk and a plastic 'spitoon' beaker into which they would regularly cough up phlegm into every 5 minutes or so.

It really was like living the dream back then.
(wrigglesworth, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 14:11, closed)

You should have told them that you sleep with the fan on.
They'd treat you like some kind of god.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 14:36, closed)

If more people smoke at their desks,
we could avert the pensions crisis. emvee is to be commended for his efforts to shorten his lifespan.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 13:39, closed)

We used to have a red fire bucket in the office that was full of sand
this is going back to 1999/2000 when I was an Network Engineer, the only thing that it was ever used for was a makeshift ashtray when we returned to our 4th floor office of a no smoking building after being at the pub all afternoon on a Friday.
( spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 15:42, closed)

Fuck me you're up your own arse

( Harpago ¯\(°_o)/¯, Tue 14 Oct 2014, 12:56, closed)