My Boss says only SMOKERS get breaks at work... so I became a SMOKER
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My boss says only smokers get breaks at work, so I became a smoker. |
| 0:05.3 | Here's what happened. |
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| 0:10.8 | So I wanted to talk about the problem of people taking smoke breaks during the work day. |
| 0:15.1 | Basically, at my job, on average, the smokers take about 5-10 minutes or 5-15 minute smoke breaks. |
| 0:21.5 | All paid since they don't clock out. |
| 0:23.4 | The non-smokers, which are surprisingly in the minority, 7 out of the 25, |
| 0:28.0 | including me, has to take a break when the smokers do. |
| 0:30.8 | The manager says that they're only for smokers, and if everyone went on them, |
| 0:35.1 | then there would be too much of a lack in productivity and we would fall behind. |
| 0:38.8 | As anyone can realize, that's total BS. |
| 0:42.2 | So I went online to Amazon and bought all of the non-smokers, |
| 0:46.0 | herbal smokes, that are tobacco, nicotine, and additive-free. |
| 0:49.4 | Basically, just as cigarette filled with tea leaves. |
| 0:52.0 | And we started going on smoke breaks, but hanging out in our own corner to avoid the second hand. |
| 0:57.0 | The manager comes out and starts yelling, asking what we're doing, |
| 1:00.4 | and that he thought we didn't smoke, and we should be working, |
| 1:03.5 | to which we kindly pointed out that we had all decided to start smoking. |
| 1:07.6 | And that, well, we were smoking along with everyone else there. |
| 1:11.1 | This lasted 4 days before the manager set limits to how many and how long smoke breaks are, |
| 1:16.7 | and started to let the non-smokers take the same breaks too. |
| 1:19.9 | Also, I'm not sure about the health effects of herbal smokes, |
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