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mrmina wrote: So i told them its my choice to smoke and i'm entitled to a smoko when i want and if that 20min downtime is to happen once every 1 or 1.5 hours then its their bad luck.

How the fuck do you figure that?

aardvark wrote:

mrmina wrote: i'm entitled to a smoko when i want

What about all the people who want to take 5 minute wanking breaks?

I reckon, if you want to smoke, do it in your lunch break.

oh i reckon he has his wank break while he's having a smoke?? gotta multi task u see...


im an alcoholic- but they dont let me have a 5min beer break every hour...

If you really don't like smokers having 'smoko' breaks ... just go outside and take a break yourself. If you don't want to take a break, don't whinge when other people do !

stevew_zzr wrote:If you really don't like smokers having 'smoko' breaks ... just go outside and take a break yourself!

Sounds like a top idea. I wonder how many millions of hours in lost productivity that would cost the nation.

Smoking is a personal pursuit and not something people are paid to do. You wanna smoke, do it in your own time. If you have an agreement with your employer to take a break for 5 minutes every hour, then good for you, do it then.

I don't have a problem with people chosing to smoke, I don't have a problem with people doing it at work if their boss lets them. I do have a problem with people thinking it's their god given right to smoke whenever the fuck they feel like it at work. If I was an employer and you kept taking smoko breaks, you'd be finding another job.

smoking during the day at work... meh doesnt bother me... being a past smoker I did... now that I dont smoke I don't mind that the guys here do as long as they take their headsets and phones with them so they can still answer phones...

As for Mobiles in Cars.... it doesnt really matter how much we whinge and bitch about it and what laws are in place - people are still gunna do it... everyone knows the statistics and dangers yet everyone still does it... Just the same as every single one of us knows the statistics and dangers behind speeding - and I am sure not one of you can say you NEVER speed...

Using a mobile phone while driving can be a health hazard for yourself and other people on the road - most definitely - but so can lighting a cigarette when your window is down causing you to have to cup the lighter and smoke end with both hands and hold the wheel with your knee or elbows.... Winding the window up on an old shitty car where it gets stuck half way and you have to reach over and yank it up with your other hand... tryin to find your favour CD in the CD folder... grabbing money out for the Tolls... Changing Radio stations coz the Morning Shows shit you to tears and you forgot your CD folder... scratching your ankle OR pulling out a wedgie... we gunna wack a 3 month licence ban on all the above as well???

Laws can be put into place to try and curve the incidents of this happening - but unfortunately you cannot take the foolishness out of people's heads so matter what laws are passed it will continue to happen and idiots will always be idiots...

Neka79 wrote:

aardvark wrote:

mrmina wrote: i'm entitled to a smoko when i want

What about all the people who want to take 5 minute wanking breaks?

I reckon, if you want to smoke, do it in your lunch break.

oh i reckon he has his wank break while he's having a smoke?? gotta multi task u see...


im an alcoholic- but they dont let me have a 5min beer break every hour...

Neka you would need shot glasses firstly

I am lucky where i am, the only smokers in my area are myself and the GM.
Don't often get a lunch break, some time very long hours so i take a smoke break when ever i like besides most of the time i am on the mobile ect

Thats Jas you are right, to a degree. Some people i know are the biggest bunch of slack asses that should get the boot, 30min smoke breakes and they only walk out the door

Ok going for one now (as i have 3 calls to make)!

For what its worth, when in L.A. i had yet to see a SINGLE hands free mobile kit in a car, everyone else had the things plastered against their ear and was swerving all across the roads. You think that someone with a boxter would get a handsfree kit put in as part of pre delivery, wouldn't you?

aardvark wrote:

stevew_zzr wrote:If you really don't like smokers having 'smoko' breaks ... just go outside and take a break yourself!

Sounds like a top idea. I wonder how many millions of hours in lost productivity that would cost the nation.

Smoking is a personal pursuit and not something people are paid to do. You wanna smoke, do it in your own time. If you have an agreement with your employer to take a break for 5 minutes every hour, then good for you, do it then.

Yeah i agree ... it just annoys me when ppl get up on a soapbox whingeing about people taking smoko breaks, when it isn't their call about whether someone should or shouldn't take that break. Sure if it directly or somewhat indirectly affects your ability to work, then take it up with the employer. But people who are sad sooks who think that other people get breaks and they don't should harden up

If the employer sets reasonable boundaries and doesn't discriminate against smokers or non-smokers it's all good in my books (sadly it's not yet legal to disadvantage ppl who smoke).

For the record, i've never smoked in my entire life. Never even held a lit cigarette !

stevew_zzr wrote: For the record, i've never smoked in my entire life. Never even held a lit cigarette !

uve got ur hands full with all the blokes penises tho right??

It's not illegal yet is it

Bah Fuckit I dont care .......kill ya fuckin self.......just dont take me with you

Neka79 wrote:

stevew_zzr wrote: For the record, i've never smoked in my entire life. Never even held a lit cigarette !

uve got ur hands full with all the blokes penises tho right??

i believe a psychologist would say that you are 'projecting' your own experiences onto me in an effort to try and better accept and justify them

stevew_zzr wrote:

Neka79 wrote:

stevew_zzr wrote: For the record, i've never smoked in my entire life. Never even held a lit cigarette !

uve got ur hands full with all the blokes penises tho right??

i believe a psychologist would say that you are 'projecting' your own experiences onto me in an effort to try and better accept and justify them

and a realist would say i saw u thru the window playing with that fella's knob..

Ahh dammit I got nothing.

MiG wrote:

mrmina wrote: So i told them its my choice to smoke and i'm entitled to a smoko when i want and if that 20min downtime is to happen once every 1 or 1.5 hours then its their bad luck.

How the fuck do you figure that?

easy if they didn't make such ridiculous rules (me walking for 15min to have a 5 min smoko), i'd be at my desk more quicker