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When I worked in crap jobs, smoke breaks were a life saver. I worked at one place (a growers in rural England) where we only had 15 minutes for lunch (probably
by richardjdare 11y ago
When I worked in crap jobs, smoke breaks were a life saver. I worked at one place (a growers in rural England) where we only had 15 minutes for lunch (probably illegal) but we could take smoke breaks if we wanted. Everyone smoked super kings to maximise their break time.
I think something about smoking cigarettes is intimately linked to control of time, particularly in regimented industrial environments / crap jobs where you have to clock out to take a shit. When I smoked at work, it was like I was free for the duration of each cigarette.
- gaius 11y agoThat's definitely a thing. I like to get up from my desk a few times a day and go for a short walk, stretch my legs, get some fresh air, clear my mind, maybe run a minor errand. That's weird, but if I was going for a smoke, no-one would bat an eyelid.
- abalashov 11y agoFormer smoker here. I used to take like 10 smoke breaks a day at my day job and it seemed completely normal at the time. I was a minority, but certainly not the only one. Looking back on it, it seems completely insane, though; I am baffled that it was tolerated, especially since a major theme in my job description was being on hand in case bad things happened (monitoring alarms).