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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 528665" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I agree that a lot of the anti-smoking policies have gotten completely out of hand to the point of ridiculous! They all jumped on the "politically correct" bandwagon and seem to be trying to outdo each other. I worked for the State in a close security prison for 24 years and I am also a smoker. When I first started there, we could all smoke in our individual offices and we were very productive, hardly ever took breaks at all. Then they restricted smoking to one room in our building so we all started taking morning and afternoon breaks there and part of our lunch breaks. If we had work that we could take to this room to do, we did. Then came the <em>Great Edict From On High</em> that there would be no more smoking in any State buildings. In our department it was decided to phase it in a little at a time and our warden, a nasty vindictive little man who had recently been forced to quit smoking because of his health volunteered OUR institution to be one of the first! It was left up to each institution how to implement the rules that stated no smoking in State <u><em>buildings</em></u>. Most institutions designated an outdoor area for smoking and constructed some sort of shelter for their staff. Not us! Our warden, with the zeal of the newly-reformed former smoker designated that there would be no smoking on the entire <em>property</em> ... all 52 acres of it! This is out in the boonies, surrounded by thick woods as far as you can see, but we couldn't even smoke in our own cars in the farthest corner of the parking lot! The little turd was so ate up with enforcing his regulations that he spent most of the day riding around the property on a golf cart trying to catch people smoking! So, while the people in the downtown offices had a smoking area right outside their building, if we wanted to smoke, we had to get in our cars and drive 1.7 miles down the road to the closest place that we could pull off the road and NOT be on State property. And while we were down there, he'd come riding by on his golf cart, giving us the evil eye! </p><p></p><p>But since I'm gone from there now, I don't care anymore! And it does have kind of a funny ending. Our nasty little gnome of a warden ended up being forced into an unwanted retirement! And a former co-worker (one of the smokers that he persecuted) saw him walking down the street one day ... and he was SMOKING! That horrible, nasty, lying, vindictive little turd of a man had started smoking again! Hearing that just made my day!! I hadn't laughed that hard in years! I just wish it had been ME that caught him</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 528665, member: 1883"] I agree that a lot of the anti-smoking policies have gotten completely out of hand to the point of ridiculous! They all jumped on the "politically correct" bandwagon and seem to be trying to outdo each other. I worked for the State in a close security prison for 24 years and I am also a smoker. When I first started there, we could all smoke in our individual offices and we were very productive, hardly ever took breaks at all. Then they restricted smoking to one room in our building so we all started taking morning and afternoon breaks there and part of our lunch breaks. If we had work that we could take to this room to do, we did. Then came the [I]Great Edict From On High[/I] that there would be no more smoking in any State buildings. In our department it was decided to phase it in a little at a time and our warden, a nasty vindictive little man who had recently been forced to quit smoking because of his health volunteered OUR institution to be one of the first! It was left up to each institution how to implement the rules that stated no smoking in State [U][I]buildings[/I][/U]. Most institutions designated an outdoor area for smoking and constructed some sort of shelter for their staff. Not us! Our warden, with the zeal of the newly-reformed former smoker designated that there would be no smoking on the entire [I]property[/I] ... all 52 acres of it! This is out in the boonies, surrounded by thick woods as far as you can see, but we couldn't even smoke in our own cars in the farthest corner of the parking lot! The little turd was so ate up with enforcing his regulations that he spent most of the day riding around the property on a golf cart trying to catch people smoking! So, while the people in the downtown offices had a smoking area right outside their building, if we wanted to smoke, we had to get in our cars and drive 1.7 miles down the road to the closest place that we could pull off the road and NOT be on State property. And while we were down there, he'd come riding by on his golf cart, giving us the evil eye! But since I'm gone from there now, I don't care anymore! And it does have kind of a funny ending. Our nasty little gnome of a warden ended up being forced into an unwanted retirement! And a former co-worker (one of the smokers that he persecuted) saw him walking down the street one day ... and he was SMOKING! That horrible, nasty, lying, vindictive little turd of a man had started smoking again! Hearing that just made my day!! I hadn't laughed that hard in years! I just wish it had been ME that caught him [/QUOTE]
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