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Kids are understandable. What (mildly) annoys me is the free pass for smoke breaks.
Id say its about the same.
As a smoker, I get zero cig breaks so blow me
Good, you shouldn't get a break specifically for fostering an addiction.
Smoke or kids or the want to scratch your bunghole, you should be able to take whatever breaks you want as long as the work gets done.
Sure, but it's pretty commonplace to offer smoke breaks with no equivalent breaks being offered to non smokers. It's stupid as shit.
You'd be surprised how many breaks you can get if you just start taking them.
Yeah, a lot of 'smoke breaks' aren't officially sanctioned by the company. The smokers just take them, and what's the company going to do about it?
Truly, i do think it an intentional product of, from my limited perspective, the american education system - we're trained against taking action, and instead to only ever dare to request and maybe potentially receive at the whim of whoever is in authority
Bathroom and hall passes, "dead lines" and due dates, raising hands to speak, etc
Some of it is certainly practical, but, the result is somebody getting mad at another for taking a break because they didnt have corpo-daddy say they could
If you want a break, and know the business's or whoevers you care about's goal wont fail if you did so, then be a free person who controls themselves, and take the break
I knew a guy at my old workplace who could just take unlimited breaks and thats what he did. They werent super long though. Like 20 or 30 minute breaks every 2 or 3 hours depending on what he felt like.
Felt like I was seeing the twilight zone when I saw him doing that....
I had one like that too claimed it was crohns, he'd be in at least 4hrs a day on 8hrs plus the regular 30min lunch breaks, and 2-10min breaks.
Just join them and stand outside for 5 min.
Just not downwind of the cancer-stench
That's what I did at my last factory job. Go out on smoke breaks, walk around the parking lot until the break is over.
Nobody ever called me on it, but just in case I always had a vape I picked up off the side of the road ready to claim it was my reason for being out with the rest.
Where the fuck can I get a job at this magically smoke break facility?
Okay except smoking
Never asked for one just sayin, for you inbred dipshits is they don't always have those maybe, I've seen office people smokin, but I work for a living ya know the kind, shit wages back breaking work. So I've been through so much bullshit in my times on this prison planet. I have tried to quit so many times woulda stopped if it wasn't for crooked judges in family court. It was relapse cigs or hit bottle and let the anger flow and well I'm not in charge of this country RN so you see what's up. Isn't there other shit other than bein a work whiny cunt, run to boss so and so said naughty words. Words don't hurt hell half the time I don't feel the cuts scrapes and bruises until someone says thats a lot of blood. Tangent this is, sick of cunts whining about smokers when there's a fuckin pedophile in charge that needs to be shit in the face
Can you put the empty vodka bottle down for a minute and type out an understandable response?
Oh yeah come gettin me, arrest or bullets is admission of someone bein a pedophile, y'all know whom I mean
You shouldn't get a break in life
But, as a rule, I don't really like blowing smokers. Smoker cum legit tastes much worse than normal.
Exactly!
UNO reverse card: Kids are a choice, smoking is an addiction.
But smoking is to a degree a choice. Tobacco isnt like heroin. You can quit it cold turkey . And YES I GET IT its a hard addiction to defeat , weve known this for like half a century now.... but it can be defeated with enough time and patience away from tobacco.
But kids are not a choice you can or can not take care of once you have produced them. Personally I feel that the modern economy makes it so that EVERYONE should be discouraged from having kids cause the hours and pay that person has to work these days in most places is nonsensical. So I dont get why we STILL have so many cultures that continue to peer pressure people into having 'band-aid babies' or 'young-love, straight-outta-college babies' but thats just me. Only choice you have when youre having a child is to abort or not and to give them up to adoption or not. After that? Youre only options are 'take care of them when you have the time to' (break time) or 'watch them destroy your life, your community , and their lives' '
You don't "defeat" an addiction. You always will be an addict, just one that stopped using the substance.
Ah youre correct. Im wrong. Sorry.
Its more like you avoid the substance( like alcohol addiction or nicotine or whatever youre addicted to ) or the pracetice (whether that be gambling addiction or self-harming addiction or whatever) and find that it doesnt impact your life . You dont ever truly 'defeat' an addiction. You just significantly taper its impact to your life.
You can tell you've never been a smoker, it's comparable to heroin, it's just you don't get influence (fucked up/drunk/high)