i hold a few jobs, one of which i work at an establishment that serves as a venue/bar/nightclub. on fridays we have this dj house/dance/dubstep event that's held every week, which draws a very variable crowd. we are a private venue, so all attendees are required to have a membership which is mandatory for entry. during this event i'm usually stationed on membership duty, and sell them to patrons outside.
i had both clipboards out while people filled out their forms, and i had handed the kids their change. it was pretty busy, so i snuck a couple of puffs from my pv. i usualy turn away from the people around me when i exhale, but beyond that i can't control where the vapor wafts. a bit of one exhale crept towards this girl and her friend, and one of the girls proceeds to give me attitude.
she tells me it's unacceptable, she doesn't smoke, and doesn't appreciate being exposed to it, especially by someone who is working there.
i kind of apologized (although by this point in the night i'm really apathetic to the myriad of people who have fed me drunken entitled attitude), and explained that the "smoke" was equivalent to steam and it wasn't my intention that it went in her general direction. she continued to beak off at me until she had her membership. she then proceeds to dub us as "the worst bar ever" because we were also at capacity at this point of the night, and she had to wait outside. she also complained to the bouncer manning the entryway, as if he yknow, cared or something.
i dunno. people smoke outside the venue, especially at capacity. a lot of the time they're not exclusively smoking cigarettes and this crowd has one of the highest occurrences of drug use. i really hate this event, it draws on average the worst crowd for a regularly scheduled event at our venue. people don't even know where they are (the event is called klub omfg, so our actual venue name is ambiguous to them), they're a very young entitled crowd, and complaints are rampant. they complain about our memberships (so that we can remain a private venue and have all 3 rooms in our establishment liscenced), there are too many drugs, they all hop in line to the afterhours club next door after last call, they can't handle their substance, fights happen way too often, there is theft of liquor, and they complain when they're denied entry for excessive intoxication or public drinking. it's ridiculous. even with all that i've never had anyone be upset at me for using my pv and accidentally making it into a little bit of my secondhand vapor. i guess that was my first explicitly negative experience with vaping in public.
also, i've been honing my stealth skills while working! the next day i was placed at door, and we're not exactly entitled to breaks during shift. up the ego went up my sleeve, out the vapor trickled slowly out of my nose. the head of security caught me smiling like a cat with a bird in its mouth, while vapor slowly escaped from my nostrils. he just laughed.
we allow the use of pvs inside our establishment, but i'm a little dicey on how allowed i am to vape while working door. either way, working a 6 hr shift without having to beg someone to relieve me for a break was pretty refreshing.
i had both clipboards out while people filled out their forms, and i had handed the kids their change. it was pretty busy, so i snuck a couple of puffs from my pv. i usualy turn away from the people around me when i exhale, but beyond that i can't control where the vapor wafts. a bit of one exhale crept towards this girl and her friend, and one of the girls proceeds to give me attitude.
she tells me it's unacceptable, she doesn't smoke, and doesn't appreciate being exposed to it, especially by someone who is working there.
i kind of apologized (although by this point in the night i'm really apathetic to the myriad of people who have fed me drunken entitled attitude), and explained that the "smoke" was equivalent to steam and it wasn't my intention that it went in her general direction. she continued to beak off at me until she had her membership. she then proceeds to dub us as "the worst bar ever" because we were also at capacity at this point of the night, and she had to wait outside. she also complained to the bouncer manning the entryway, as if he yknow, cared or something.
i dunno. people smoke outside the venue, especially at capacity. a lot of the time they're not exclusively smoking cigarettes and this crowd has one of the highest occurrences of drug use. i really hate this event, it draws on average the worst crowd for a regularly scheduled event at our venue. people don't even know where they are (the event is called klub omfg, so our actual venue name is ambiguous to them), they're a very young entitled crowd, and complaints are rampant. they complain about our memberships (so that we can remain a private venue and have all 3 rooms in our establishment liscenced), there are too many drugs, they all hop in line to the afterhours club next door after last call, they can't handle their substance, fights happen way too often, there is theft of liquor, and they complain when they're denied entry for excessive intoxication or public drinking. it's ridiculous. even with all that i've never had anyone be upset at me for using my pv and accidentally making it into a little bit of my secondhand vapor. i guess that was my first explicitly negative experience with vaping in public.
also, i've been honing my stealth skills while working! the next day i was placed at door, and we're not exactly entitled to breaks during shift. up the ego went up my sleeve, out the vapor trickled slowly out of my nose. the head of security caught me smiling like a cat with a bird in its mouth, while vapor slowly escaped from my nostrils. he just laughed.
we allow the use of pvs inside our establishment, but i'm a little dicey on how allowed i am to vape while working door. either way, working a 6 hr shift without having to beg someone to relieve me for a break was pretty refreshing.
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