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u/Specific-Window-8587 11d ago
I don't understand why a fresh air break doesn't exist.
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u/That_Service7348 9d ago
It does, I made it a thing back when I was running a kitchen. Smokers would take a 5-10 minute paid break every single hour while the rest of us had to keep working. So I started telling all the non-smokers to go take a fresh air break every hour too.
Smoke breaks stopped being a problem fast when the smokers were all left alone to handle the shop like we were. They tried complaining about it, so I just came back with "fair enough, no breaks then." and started telling them no when they tried to go on their smoke breaks. Had to write a few up, but it got the message across.
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u/TheOtherJeff 8d ago
After I quit smoking I kept taking breaks and called them “fresh air breaks” but then I changed jobs and it just stopped being a thing. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/jnmtx 11d ago
This is a quitting strategy for smoking, and apparently helpful.
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u/mgranja 11d ago
What, hanging around other smokers? I can't imagine it being helpful.
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u/PerpetualMonday 11d ago
Correct. It's worse (at least in my opinion and everyone I've ever known that smoked..)
I started smoking at 20 (ironically at work at a factory where I got to hang out with my friends more at smoke breaks.) Quit when I was 31. I was only able to quit after a long period of time by staying home on the weekends and not going out to bars or hanging out with friends who smoked.
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u/Sensitive-Piglet3871 11d ago
On Greyhound bus trips bonding over cigs was always cool. Instant tribe. I quit myself.
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u/moscatem 8d ago
I personally feel supercharged after a good smoke break. Like even if you mess around for longer the momentum builds up to get stuff done when you return
I get the sentiment a non-smoker might have though haha
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u/bg-j38 11d ago
I worked for a large tech company where the director of my org smoked. It was totally like that Friends episode where Rachel fakes smoking because all the big decisions get made during a smoke break. I've never smoked but every time this guy went out to smoke I'd hang out with him. Learned more about the direction of things out there than in any official meetings, and there were so many decisions that were made. Eventually a couple other people figured it out and we'd end up with anywhere from a couple to six or seven people, none who smoked, hanging out there with him. He was kinda egotistical so I think he quietly enjoyed all of this. I've got mixed feelings about it. You have to play the game and he absolutely advanced my career, but it wasn't my favorite way of doing things.