{"id":49976,"date":"2024-05-09T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49976"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:26:42","slug":"the-financial-burden-of-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49976","title":{"rendered":"The financial burden of smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span>There\u2019s a lady somewhere in my office building that I surmise takes a smoke break every single hour.\u00a0 Every time I go to the gym, I will inevitably see her walk past the windows to where all the smokers tend to congregate, which is horrifyingly over a section of the Colonial Pipeline gas main that made national headlines a few years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, as much as I\u2019d like to, I don\u2019t go to the gym at the same time every single day, I have to be fluid with the times in which I go, depending on my workload and any scheduled meetings on a daily basis.\u00a0 So I\u2019ve been to the gym as early as within the 10 am hour, as late as the 3 pm hour and at any time in between.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it does not matter what time of the day in which I go to the gym, I will always see her trudge past the gym windows to go take a roughly 20 minute smoke break, or whenever she gets done with dicking around on her phone and milking her smoke.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, I\u2019m really curious what she actually does for whatever company she works for, and I can\u2019t imagine it\u2019s something remotely essential or necessary, considering the fact that a person who literally works maybe 30-35 minutes of every single hour is in the position, because factoring in the walking time, and elevator time into each smoke break, that\u2019s what I\u2019m assuming she actually at her desk\/workstation, regardless of if she\u2019s actually working or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know the hiring process is not supposed to demonstrate any sort of bias or discrimination, but honestly if I were ever back in a position of hiring people, I think I\u2019d try to find out if an applicant were a smoker or not.\u00a0 And if they were, throw their application in the trash, because I can\u2019t imagine that short of being Good Will Hunting<\/em> genius, a person who works 3\/5th<\/sup> of the time of someone who doesn\u2019t smoke, will actually outproduce in the long run.\u00a0 Last time I checked, smoker isn\u2019t a race or a class of person that has any consequence for discriminating against and if it were up to me, I wouldn\u2019t want any smokers in my workplace if I ever were in control of one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just the sight of this person kind of disgusts me.\u00a0 I\u2019m not trying to get all high-and-mighty on someone, and I seldom thing I\u2019m above most things or most people, but considering the work ethic of Miss Chimney, who stinks like one, and I can tell when she\u2019s been in the elevator recently, because she leaves it stinking of smoke, I do kind of look down on her.\u00a0 If I were her employer, I\u2019d be aggravated as fuck knowing that she\u2019s burning 20-25 minutes every single hour of every single working day trolling around outside dragging on a bunch of cancer sticks on company time.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it were up to me, once this kind of bullshit gets on my radar, I\u2019d consider making a case against it, and start extrapolating their wages against how much time they\u2019re actually present in the office, and see what happens afterward.\u00a0 I\u2019d wager the behavior corrects itself more likely than not, and that they might look for an exit strategy, to which I would say good riddance, may I get a replacement that doesn\u2019t smell like an airport smoking lounge.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the kind of behavior my old cunt of a boss would embark on, but if there\u2019s one thing that I would agree with her is that time theft is still theft, and I sure as fuck don\u2019t want any thieves on my team.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s too much to ask to have team members that are equitably present, and also don\u2019t smell like fucking alleyways behind Chinese restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lady somewhere in my office building that I surmise takes a smoke break every single hour.\u00a0 Every time I go to the gym, I will inevitably see her walk past the windows to where all the smokers tend to congregate, which is horrifyingly over a section of the Colonial Pipeline gas main that … Continue reading The financial burden of smokers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,100,37,61,83,145],"class_list":["post-49976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-job","tag-l4d","tag-observations","tag-zbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49978,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions\/49978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}