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Originally Posted by JustJess
It's not unreasonable to ask people to consider each other. If I were burning incense, or spraying perfume, or farting copiously, why would I expect anyone else to be okay with that in their workspace? Same thing.
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It certainly is not! But some people just don't get that
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Originally Posted by Redlemon
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this says that your coworker is going to have to get ready for the smoking ban soon. There's no reason why your boss can't enforce the ban earlier, right? Stick to your guns, babe.
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Oh I will!
I don't think that our current managing director will enforce an earlier ban - he seems to be too much of a chicken to do that. They've signed a contract with a new managing director and he'll start in October - perhaps he will enforce one. I doubt it though. It doesn't matter anyways because even though I'm still exposed to cigarette smoke when I walk around in the other departments, it's the smoke in my particular one that is the real problem as I sit there for 7 hours a day. I can live with this arrangement until the ban kicks in officially in April.
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Originally Posted by liquidlight
I've got nothing against smokers, but if you ask me this isn't really about smoking, it's about the fact that they're too damned rude to have any consideration of others.
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True! And what really pisses me off about her reluctance to pay regards to my migraine problem is that it really is of no inconvenience for her to do so. She only needs to go 2,5 metres in one direction in order to reach the doors leading outside or 15 metres in the other direction in order to reach the big printing room.
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Originally Posted by liquidlight
What the hell are these people planning on doing once the government ban goes into effect? And given the pending ban I'd also say that you've got a lot of leverage to have Erik or the big boss start enforcing a more strict policy in order to facilitate compliance.
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Quit and sit around the house all day, smoking? Hell if I know.. or care.
I doubt that compliance will be of any problem once the government ban goes into effect. After all they'll have no more say in this matter when their smoking has suddenly become illegal.
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Originally Posted by liquidlight
I was just going to ask. . . do you think that turnabout would be fairplay? My Mom used to have this little saying taped to her computer, went something like this:
"I appreciate that you have a vice, and that the smoke is the byproduct of your vice but I don't appreciate you sharing it with me. I too have a vice, I enjoy the occasional Pepsi. The byproduct of my vice is pee. Would you enjoy it if I peed all over you, your hair, your clothes, and your desk? Didn't think so, so please keep you cigarette and your smoke away from me."
Me? I'd just be a little shit and the cigarettes would start disappearing, if she's firing up that often she'd probably just think that she smoked them all. That or I'd find something equally atrocious that I could "share" right back at her.
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
My dad had a black shirt that said "I dont mind if you smoke if you don't mind if I shit in your shoe" in bright white letters.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
You pull an Artie Ziff, and put out their cigarettes with a squirt bottle.
"Your lungs will thank me later! Squirt, squirt, squirt!"
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Originally Posted by level five
i'd eat lot's of beans. broccoli and the like and then enjoy myself! or start spraying perfume all over myself. better yet, get a small fan and hit it with air freshener.
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Allthough it's tempting to try all your suggestions just to see their reaction, I'm not going to. It would be childish of me to give them tit for tat like that. I'd much more just grab the bull by the horns and get the problem solved permanently instead.
I would like to thank you all for your advice and support everybody - and for those funny remarks too. It really meant a lot to me. You people actually succeed in making me happy at the end of an otherwise crappy day.
