Coworker objections

[Salt&PePPer]

Usually, more often than not, if someone starts to complain about someone else's vaping it usually because they don't like the person and wish to make at least aspect of the vapor's life difficult.

Me personally I always go to the area where people smoke to vape. Being around analogs doesn't bother me at all. But in the scheme of things I'm not going to go run around asking everyone if is ok. For me even asking can give the potential haters leverage against you someday.

Besides nowadays e-cigs are a great conversation piece for when you show up in a target rich environment, right Maverick?

 

[SABOTEUR]

I find some objections to vaping is be just plain fear. Non-smokers have successfully warded off the evils of deadly tobacco smoke and you come along with God-knows-what that you claim is safe.

Then you have just plain weird objections. Had a discussion with a co-worker who heard about the notorious exploding pv, which branched off into anti-freeze ingredients. Once I countered with what I believed to be facts about the situations, the conversation veered off into "the pollution of God's temple". I realized at this point that discussion was pointless and decided to keep my vaping and my opinions to myself.

 

[Jessevapman]

I find some objections to vaping is be just plain fear. Non-smokers have successfully warded off the evils of deadly tobacco smoke and you come along with God-knows-what that you claim is safe.

Then you have just plain weird objections. Had a discussion with a co-worker who heard about the notorious exploding pv, which branched off into anti-freeze ingredients. Once I countered with what I believed to be facts about the situations, the conversation veered off into "the pollution of God's temple". I realized at this point that discussion was pointless and decided to keep my vaping and my opinions to myself.

Oh wow! Yea you gotta leave that alone!

 

[EDGECRUSHER]

The Air Force banned use of e-cigarettes in the workplace, and treats it exactly the same as an analog cigarette in terms of policy and regulations.
You might ask, "But EDGECRUSHER, you're a Marine! Who cares what those little nincompoops who talk to each other using their first names, who cares about their policies?"
Well, my company does the majority of its business with the DoD, especially the USAF. So when they banned it, my company issued a HR policy mimicking it almost word for word. So when I initially quit, I was vaping at my desk (never in the lab, and certainly never around space-borne modules) and this...person who doesn't quite like me for reasons I'll never know, comes up and slams a printout of the HR policy on my desk. "You have to go outside" she said, all smug and full of herself.
So, I get to enjoy smelling the ashtrays of the smoking section, if I don't just sneak off to the bathroom to vape (which is what I do the majority of the time now anyway) I go out and demonstrate to the other smokers that there is some seriously cool stuff out there with nicotine in it. So far, only one person has tried e-cigs. I've been on disability leave though, so when I go back I'll pick up where I left off in converting smokers to the real "Flavor Country" of vaping!

 

[milo hobo]

I go out and demonstrate to the other smokers that there is some seriously cool stuff out there with nicotine in it.

Like tomatoes. Tomatoes are cool.

Sorry to hear you have to deal with someone so pushy and narrow minded. That sounds like a real ANTZ.

 

[SeaBrz]

Tim said (8/14/2012 at 10:42 AM)
it's an acrid cloud of scented water vaper. sometimes kind of vinela, always gross

I am going out on the edge -- but maybe you did not interpret what Tim said above?

Maybe Tim does have a general grudge against you, but he said he doesn't like the smell from what you are vaping (that's fair).

Do you know what bakery products that Tim loves? Or maybe you could share a printout list of the delicious options we have. Maybe letting Tim pick the eliquid will solve a lot.

 

[EDGECRUSHER]

Like tomatoes. Tomatoes are cool.

Sorry to hear you have to deal with someone so pushy and narrow minded. That sounds like a real ANTZ.

Actually, I didn't know until your post that tomatoes actually did have nicotine in them. I really had a "The More You Know" moment :]

 

[Orobas]

>>the conversation veered off into "the pollution of God's temple"
At which point i would show them my tongue ring and make obscene insinuations about the piercings he CAN'T see.

i brazenly vaped in front of my ex boss and coworkers a few times, and when nary a word was said about it i assumed that was permission to stealth vape.

Only comment i ever received about it was the delightful smell of fruit smoothie lingering in my bus. But i kept the thing immaculately clean and sweet scented anyway.

 

[SABOTEUR]

>>the conversation veered off into "the pollution of God's temple"
At which point i would show them my tongue ring and make obscene insinuations about the piercings he CAN'T see.

i brazenly vaped in front of my ex boss and coworkers a few times, and when nary a word was said about it i assumed that was permission to stealth vape.

Only comment i ever received about it was the delightful smell of fruit smoothie lingering in my bus. But i kept the thing immaculately clean and sweet scented anyway.

Sorry...can you repeat what you said...kinda drifted off after the part concerning "obscene insinuations about piercings he CAN'T see..."

 

[Trench]

I paid the cost to be the boss.

All my employees are free to vape, willy nilly.

Sent from my ADR6400L

 

[bluegrasslover]

I am going out on the edge -- but maybe you did not interpret what Tim said above?

Maybe Tim does have a general grudge against you, but he said he doesn't like the smell from what you are vaping (that's fair).

Do you know what bakery products that Tim loves? Or maybe you could share a printout list of the delicious options we have. Maybe letting Tim pick the eliquid will solve a lot.

I'd rather not talk to him if I don't have to. I vape several flavors a day and since he says always gross not sure what more I could do since I've already made some flavorless. It wouldn't matter anyway since he's just an ahole.

 

[Jessevapman]

I work in a hair salon. I don't vape in front of the customers, but I vape in the break room and I don't think anyone will care if I do it anyways. Everyone smokes where I work anyways.

 

[tidegirl]

I'd rather not talk to him if I don't have to. I vape several flavors a day and since he says always gross not sure what more I could do since I've already made some flavorless. It wouldn't matter anyway since he's just an ahole.

Yep, definitely just trying to be an ahole if he says the same about flavorless. Reminds me of a woman on a job my hubby worked. Maintenance supervisor told him everything they used to clean she whined about the smell being too strong. So he took a bottle in there, said he had a new cleaner to try, sprayed. She immediately said that's too strong, to which he replied "it's water." Busted!

 

[Puffythegun]

I've converted 4 of our 6 smokers. The owner is thrilled and encourages me. I vape whenever and wherever I like.

 

[glassmanoak]

Suppose you have a co-worker who uses a perfume or cologne that you can't handle? Do you have a RIGHT to ask them to stop wearing it?
I bought my girlfriend a perfume I knew she wanted. She had "dropped" the name to me just brfore Christmas. I HATED the smell and it gave me a headache. Do I have the RIGHT to ask her to stop wearing it?

RIGHT? no. But I believe that the onus is on the co-worker or girlfriend to do the "right" thing. I feel that we should stop the offending behavior. Your co-worker might be an ahole, but he IS a human being too. So stop vaping in the office.
I would say the same thing if it was perfume, vapor, or anything else. The workplace is the workplace, not our home.

 

[SissySpike]

We all have those people in our lives weather at work or what ever. You can feed in to their negativity or do your best to not allow them to interfere with your well being. Unfortunately we somehow started catering to the gripes of the unsatisfied and now we have to make everyone happy when it makes the majority unhappy. If you can follow that.
I miss the days when some whinny jerk was told to worry about them selves instead now we have to listen to the pathetic douchbags and consider their feelings!
Im glad I work construction If someone tells me some sissy crap like that I just tell him to go get &@%*$! and forget about it

 

[vsummer1]

Suppose you have a co-worker who uses a perfume or cologne that you can't handle? Do you have a RIGHT to ask them to stop wearing it?
I bought my girlfriend a perfume I knew she wanted. She had "dropped" the name to me just brfore Christmas. I HATED the smell and it gave me a headache. Do I have the RIGHT to ask her to stop wearing it?

RIGHT? no. But I believe that the onus is on the co-worker or girlfriend to do the "right" thing. I feel that we should stop the offending behavior. Your co-worker might be an ahole, but he IS a human being too. So stop vaping in the office.
I would say the same thing if it was perfume, vapor, or anything else. The workplace is the workplace, not our home.

I would have chosen a more creative Christmas present if the stuff gave me a headache. That way I would not be condoning the wearing of it by giving it, then asking the recipient not to wear it as it gave me a headache. Sounds almost passive aggressive to give then to take away when I could have just chosen a more appropriate present in the first place.

I believe the OP said he would change to flavorless. The co-worker is just being a jerk, it had been a YEAR and no problems, then all of a sudden things go wrong and he finds a way to mess with the OP even though others who are closer to the vaping seem to smell nothing.

I think the OP should sprinkle some of the offending juice around the guys cubicle. That way his smell will become "fatigued" and he wouldn't be able to smell it at all

 

[gthompson]

The "offending juice" might not be what I sprinkled around the guys cubicle....

 

[vsummer1]

The "offending juice" might not be what I sprinkled around the guys cubicle....

 

[glassmanoak]

I would have chosen a more creative Christmas present if the stuff gave me a headache. That way I would not be condoning the wearing of it by giving it, then asking the recipient not to wear it as it gave me a headache. Sounds almost passive aggressive to give then to take away when I could have just chosen a more appropriate present in the first place.
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Obviously, I hadn't smelled the perfume before I gave it to her. I might be an idiot for not smelling it first, (it was ordered online) but I don't think it is passive/agressive to give her something she had (not so subtlely) asked for.


Do we have positive proof of the longterm effect of second-hand vapor? We have preliminary evidence that it is not harmful, but what we have is nothing close to definitive proof. I'm not going to subject anyone to any effects of MY vapor until I know for sure.