As I sit outside writing this post on my lunch break, enjoying my delicious blackberry vape, I can't help but wonder why my employer has banned ecigs from their four office buildings, requiring vapers to go outside to the smokers' area.
As part of my position, I travel in between each building. I've gotten to know the smokers that inhabit said area pretty well and have discovered that most of them spend at least ten minutes every hour away from their desks getting their nic fix. More than a few of them have switched to vaping and are all upset that they have to go outside, away from their desks and work, to engage in their newfound habit (I count myself among them).
I think it's incredibly shortsighted of our employer to confine vapers to the smoking area. They missed an incredible opportunity to increase productivity just because vaping "looks like smoking."
I realize employers are well within their rights to set rules and that employees, should they continue to be employed there, should follow them. It just seems rather discriminatory to lump us all in together, smokers and vapers alike.
Is this commonplace in an office setting? Any experiences to the contrary?
As part of my position, I travel in between each building. I've gotten to know the smokers that inhabit said area pretty well and have discovered that most of them spend at least ten minutes every hour away from their desks getting their nic fix. More than a few of them have switched to vaping and are all upset that they have to go outside, away from their desks and work, to engage in their newfound habit (I count myself among them).
I think it's incredibly shortsighted of our employer to confine vapers to the smoking area. They missed an incredible opportunity to increase productivity just because vaping "looks like smoking."
I realize employers are well within their rights to set rules and that employees, should they continue to be employed there, should follow them. It just seems rather discriminatory to lump us all in together, smokers and vapers alike.
Is this commonplace in an office setting? Any experiences to the contrary?