Drag and whine
KRISTEN LALONDE
Issue date: 3/8/05 Section: Opinion
One of my biggest pet peeves is
when one of my co-workers emerges
from their paid smoking breaks to tell
me about how cold it is outside.
No crap it's cold outside, that's why
I didn't voluntarily leave the building to
stand in an alley for ten minutes,
moron.
Another problem I have is when my
bosses explain why they let smokers go
outside and get paid for it.
"Well they're addicted. They'd get
cranky if they weren't allowed to go
smoke."
What the hell?
Are you saying that if I was an alcoholic
you would let me leave every
hour to go get plastered behind a
dumpster?
Usually this is met with a no, not
because letting me have a paid break
every hour while the rest of my coworkers
continue to work is wrong but
because I would come back on the job
drunk, while smokers come back on the
job happy, not impaired.
"Ok then" I say, "How about if I
was addicted to orgasms. Would you let
me have an hourly Wank Break? I'd
guarantee that I'd return happier then
when I left."
I have yet to get an adequate
answer to that, all I usually get is a
head shake of disappointment. I'm
used to that though.
I have nothing against smokers in
general, they are the black sheep of
society.
Thrown into the cold by the oppressive
non-smoking authority, I feel sorry
for them.
Ha ha no I don't, but I do have several
friends who smoke that take their
smoking seriously and don't complain
about a little cold.
So suck it up Smokey McCrybaby,
you may be addicted but I still don't
have to hear about your frozen ass just
because you like to smoke.
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when one of my co-workers emerges
from their paid smoking breaks to tell
me about how cold it is outside.
No crap it's cold outside, that's why
I didn't voluntarily leave the building to
stand in an alley for ten minutes,
moron.
Another problem I have is when my
bosses explain why they let smokers go
outside and get paid for it.
"Well they're addicted. They'd get
cranky if they weren't allowed to go
smoke."
What the hell?
Are you saying that if I was an alcoholic
you would let me leave every
hour to go get plastered behind a
dumpster?
Usually this is met with a no, not
because letting me have a paid break
every hour while the rest of my coworkers
continue to work is wrong but
because I would come back on the job
drunk, while smokers come back on the
job happy, not impaired.
"Ok then" I say, "How about if I
was addicted to orgasms. Would you let
me have an hourly Wank Break? I'd
guarantee that I'd return happier then
when I left."
I have yet to get an adequate
answer to that, all I usually get is a
head shake of disappointment. I'm
used to that though.
I have nothing against smokers in
general, they are the black sheep of
society.
Thrown into the cold by the oppressive
non-smoking authority, I feel sorry
for them.
Ha ha no I don't, but I do have several
friends who smoke that take their
smoking seriously and don't complain
about a little cold.
So suck it up Smokey McCrybaby,
you may be addicted but I still don't
have to hear about your frozen ass just
because you like to smoke.
For more information:
www.geocities.com/lalondeworld