[geeks] Lunchtime poll... who here is a smoker?

[Ken Hansen]

I worked for a company (not by choice) that had a no smoking *on our property* policy - if you wanted to smoke, you had to walk out to the street (the office was in a rural setting, the sidewalk/parking lot were all private property). On rainy days lots of employees went for "a ride," at the end of which the car looked like something from a Cheech & Chong movie - smoke billowing out, the occupants coughing and stinking something fierce.

I had mixed feelings about the policy, but it helped prevent the "smoking door men" described by Reagen...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Reagen Ward [mailto:ward at zilla.nu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:39 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Lunchtime poll... who here is a smoker?

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When I started with BMC, it was a non-smoker company.  Not a smoke-free
campus, but no smoking employees allowed.  Even took a nicotine test to
get the job.

It was a large part of why I wanted the job; where I used to work, every
smoker would congregate outside the two exits and smoke for 15min or so
every hour (two cig minimum was the joke they'd make).  As a result,
everyone who wanted to enter or leave the building stank of smoke just
from walking through this cloud of smoke.  I hated it.

Unfortunately, as BMC grew in other countries, they had to eliminate the
no-smoker rule.

Reagen
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