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QUOTE: Originally posted by farmer03 so i'm guessin railroads frown on smoking in the locomotive cab....so how often are the smoke breaks? haha. i can't really see goin out back on the platform to lite up @70 mph.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie I know - I have fur between my ears, but you missed the point completely. This wasn't about smoking - the funny part was the way the UP handled the situation. Instead of either providing a well ventilated smoking room, or some kind of outside shed on the property, they installed ashtrays - ACROSS the street - right by the library, which I am pretty sure isn't their property! They want to look into sending these people to a mall a short distance from the building to smoke, but the city fathers are frowning. My point is, you have smokers on staff. You know this is a fact. Why would you not provide them a suitable place either within the building or outside, instead of making them someone else's problem! Do they make their employees go across the street to use the restroom? And sending them to the mall in the middle of January in Omaha - well, there is an hour out of each day! Bundle up, put on boots, walk the block or so, have your break, reverse the whole thing - twice a day! But.....it gets them onto someone else's property, not yours! And they WILL supply the ashtrays as a convenience for the OTHER property owner! We are going from the ridiculous to the stupid! They are UP employees! UP - deal with it on your own property! Mookie
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QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 Policy where I work is no smoking within 50 feet of a building entrance (or inside). In most cases (at least for higher occupancy buildings), "bus" shelters have been installed well away from the building entrances for the convenience of the smokers. The only gripe I have about the smokers (and it's really a management issue) is that rather than the usual 10-15 "coffee" minute break once in the morning and afternoon, they seem to be taking "short" breaks about once an hour. They may only smoke one cigarette, and I'm sure the "break" lasts only 5 or so, but you also have to factor in "travel time" (bathroom, stopping to chat with co-workers, etc), which means they are spending 10-15 minutes away from their desk each time... Of course, the top guy in the building is a smoker...
Originally posted by Junctionfan Good luck enforcing that UP. Thease guys don't know when to quit while they're ahead do they.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan If they are that concerned about smoke; why don't they get rid of their Big Boy. Just kidding.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan If they are that concerned about smoke; why don't they get rid of their Big Boy. Just kidding. Psssttt - they did!
QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan If they are that concerned about smoke; why don't they get rid of their Big Boy. Just kidding. Psssttt - they did! REALLY!? (bogled) I thought they kept that thing around for excursion service.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken (1) Some of it is the "image" of visitors having to "run the gauntlet" getting in the front door of a new building (pretty disgusting)....1416 Dodge was bad about that and the sidewalk and air around the place reeked of smokers nicotine. (2) Think that's bad, wait till the stories come out about the cubicle police/ architectural gestapo/ feng-shui Keystone Cops [:D].......The people who determine what a workspace in a cubicle ought to be ought to be drawn, quartered, shot and hung for their warped view of reality. (about to suffer the same fate as the folks in the new yellow peril Crystal Palace myself).....
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