Any other lucky ones out there?

[whodat1]

I work in an office (most of the time). I was always ducking out back to smoke an analog. Since I started vaping, my boss and coworkers are fine with me doing in my office. Lucky me!

Last week I was at a customer site (power plant) in the control room. When I mentioned electronic cigarettes the operators said "Fire it up!" They were totally amazed that there was no lingering smell. Then they told me that it was fine to smoke it (sorry, vape it) in there.

I have been getting about 99% good reactions to this. I did have one guy tell me not to do it around him as he didn't want any second hand nicotine, which is fine with me after being a pariah to 90% of the population for so long.

Anyone else getting the Okay at work?

 

[hairball]

I vape in the locker room. I can't on the floor as I work in a pet food plant. I don't feel right about the breakroom either since people are eating in there.

 

[Pmack]

Well ya, but that's because I'm working outside most the time But that's awesome that your able to vape in a setting like that without any problems.

 

[whodat1]

I get ya Hairball. I guess the years of analogs help since I don't care to vape around people eating or even in small crowds. It just seems impolite. Luckily at work I do have an office (hey, comes with 30 years seniority) while most people are in cubicles. That makes it a bit easier.

 

[dormouse]

Yeah I can vape at my desk at work And in my fiance's car! (I was never ever allowed to smoke in the car)

 

[shooter59]

It seems that the E-cig is gaining popularity all over.
We just have to stay vigilant, letting people know the benefits of vaping, while maintaining politeness.

 

[caffeinated]

Although there's been no "official" green light for vaping at work, my manager, who is a smoker, often sees me and three co-workers, (one of whom is the department's supervisor), hitting the PVs at our desks.

So, we all just assume it's OK. Our area of the building is fairly isolated, and there's nobody else in the company located close enough to legitimately complain about our vaping.

 

[pandatera]

Im a headstart teacher, so offcourse there no vaping or smoking while working. When I use to smoke, I usually don't even smoke during my break because the kids dun like those ashtray smell after I return from my break. Now that I'm vaping, I can vape all I want during my break.

My boyfriend can vape in the office, and he loves it that now he dun need to step out the place and freeze outside. He didn't really get much complaints besides one of the co-workers that claims that he smell something burning when he vape.

 

[knobbysmoo]

I vape at work, but I work at home. But my hubby was so impressed that this actually got me to quit smoking (after 33 years) that he is encouraging his employees to vape instead of smoke... even letting them do it at their desks.

 

[Sassyonemeis]

I am allowed to vape unrestricted at my desk at work. I vape pretty much everywhere except the cleanrooms and subfabs.

 

[debster]

I work in a cubicle, and although a few of my coworkers know about it and are okay with it (they think it's pretty cool, actually), management has no idea I've been vaping in there since last November. I'm trying to keep it that way, because I'm pretty sure they'd nix it, unfortunately.

 

[scott10699]

im the only one that vapes in my workplace, but i introduced it to a few of my co-workers...my store manager offered to have a "vape session" in the office sometime. lool.. so its pretty cool.

 

[TiKiMoN]

Unfortunately for me my company isn't as liberal. After I started vaping they introduced a smoking ban on their property and after a long explanation of e-cigs they got banned too because "it looks like smoking"

 

[Mountain Mike]

So far so good. Everyone has accepted my vaping everywhere as long as I ask first.

 

[TwistedInFresno]

I'm the office manager for a psychiatrist. She seems to be somewhat amused, but hasn't had anything negative to say. I've been able to introduce e-cigs to some of our patients. I've only had one person in the office who seemed uncomfortable, and i just put it away 'till she was gone.

 

[whodat1]

Wow TiKiMoN, banned because it LOOKS like smoking! Next they'll take away the soda machine because it looks like drinking! I guess I could understand this in a middle or elementary school, but anywhere else seems like nonsense.

Like Mike, I tend to ask politely first and have been getting good reactions. But I have a gut feeling that the 'PC police' will soon be coming after vaping as they have with everything else. There seems to be a segment of the population who want to be able to tell everyone else how they should be living their lives.

 

[MsTick]

My boss thinks the e-cig is cool, and he's all in favor of anything that might help me quit analogs (He's an ex-smoker and very sympathetic). Two other people in my office are smokers and I asked the one non-smoker with a sensitive nose to check out my vapor - it was Dunhill flavor - and he said all he could smell was a faint hint of roses (?). So I vape at my desk, in the server room or in the restroom - just not in front of clients. My office mate is a little bummed to lose his smoking-in-the-rain buddy, but my boss likes that I never have to leave my desk

 

[Supertaper]

I vape at will in the office, and in the shop, but I also smoked in both places. Smoking in any workplace is banned here, but my boss smokes, and usually everyone else is on site so it is just the two of us, and neither one of us was going to report the other. But when I stopped smoking, he stopped smoking inside. He has actually cut down a lot since I quit, and I have hopes that he will be able to stop one of these days. He does have a 808 that he uses once in a while, and an e-pipe that he likes to use when he's relaxing at home. I haven't actually tried vaping anywhere I didn't smoke. Except in my house.

 

[HarmonyPB]

I asked my friends if I could vape in their house while having a LAN party and they said sure. At one point they were all sitting around my screen watching YouTube videos and I needed a hit, so I tried to stealth it. They jumped back because I had "smoke" come out of my nose! I explained to them that I can taste the flavor better if I exhale through my nose. We all laughed about it and they said it was fine, even while they were sitting close, they couldn't smell anything. That made me feel alot better and I did it openly after that. It felt great to be accepted. But they are way cool anyway, they all went out with me when I needed an analog even though none of them smoke. I am still a closet vaper (most) everywhere else so I haven't had many reactions.

 

[MickG33]

Works been fine, although vaped in the elevator yesterday just to get my workmates reaction - dont recommend it