Ecig banished from work place forever!

[surbitonPete]

I was informed yesterday that I can no longer use my ecig at work because "it looks like a cigarette and doesn't look good in the public's eye" Over the past couple of months Ive had the luxury of using my ecig at work, no one complained. But one of my co workers this week raised a complaint to my supervisor and low and behold, no more esmoking for me.

I guess I'll have to leave the premises like the rest of the analog smokers and take a 10minute break!

Ive got the answer!! ....get a PV that 'looks' absolutely nothing like a cigarette!! There are plenty of bizarre looking mods available....Problem solved.

 

[Letzin Hale]

Let's forget all this 'sneaking a vape when no-one's looking' business. All that does is to make us look furtive and suspicious. We need to go head on and challenge people's perceptions. In Shack's case the best way would be to go through the grievance procedure, which in the UK usually begins with an informal discussion with your line manager. The mainstay of the complaint is that you are being denied the right to use a device which is for medicinal purposes - medicinal meaning "relating to or having therapeutic properties". You are entitled to use this as it is beneficial to you and has been chosen by you as a treatment to help you stop using burning tobacco. A precedent would be the fact that a diabetic is allowed to use their insulin pen during working hours, albeit they might be asked to do so out of view of the public eye or even co-workers who might feel uneasy. So, you too should be allowed a reasonable amount of time to use your vaporiser, but you might have to go somewhere a little more discreet. That would be a 'reasonable' conclusion for everyone and one which a tribunal would probably see as acceptable if one was needed. Start with the line manager and if that doesn't work then you file an official complaint in writing. The one thing you must do is offer that 'reasonable' solution to avoid it developing into a debate about electronic cigarettes, which it is not, it is about your right to use a device that is beneficial to your health and which you need to use at various intervals throughout the day.
I have sat on all sides of similar grievances as a complainant, union rep, manager and school governor and would go for the reasonable use option without a doubt. Another analogy is that we all would consider it reasonable for a teacher to use a vaporiser in their private office or staff room where they are out of sight of children, parents and visitors, but we would not consider it reasonable if they were stood at the front of the class with one hanging from their mouth.
Go for it.
Alan.

 

[nebraskapuffer]

There will always be someone that simply hates to see others happy or content. These people are sooooo discontented themselves that they want others to be miserable too. They have a personality disorder thats been undiagnosed and there is no cure for them except a good old fashoned @$$kicking.

 

[Sar]

I was also told not to use it at my cube - it wouldn't be "fair" to the others....so I still take my regularly scheduled breaks, and occasionally sneak a vape when nobody's looking.

Sorry, but I don't get this. What wouldn't be fair? Why?

 

[Shackattack]

Well, I tried going "vape free" during a 12 hour shift and boy was I miserable! 8-o It's kind of weird, when I smoked analogs I could usually go 12 hours and just chew gum and I was ok, but I believe that now since i mainly vape that I get more nicotine, and get worse nicotine cravings BTW, i work in a hospital, surrounded by patients, doctors, families etc.. all the time, so sneaking a vape session is pretty hard. I now do my vaping in the bathroom, when the need hits, which really makes me feel like a drug addict, but come to think of it, i guess i am?! lol....Ive limited myself to a few trips to the bathroom a shift as to not get too suspicious from coworkers. Man this sucks!

 

[Antig]

Well, I tried going "vape free" during a 12 hour shift and boy was I miserable! 8-o It's kind of weird, when I smoked analogs I could usually go 12 hours and just chew gum and I was ok, but I believe that now since i mainly vape that I get more nicotine, and get worse nicotine cravings BTW, i work in a hospital, surrounded by patients, doctors, families etc.. all the time, so sneaking a vape session is pretty hard. I now do my vaping in the bathroom, when the need hits, which really makes me feel like a drug addict, but come to think of it, i guess i am?! lol....Ive limited myself to a few trips to the bathroom a shift as to not get too suspicious from coworkers. Man this sucks!

Yeah, if you work at a hospital, it would be bad if someone assumes that you are smoking. I'd be frantic if I didn't know about ecigs lol. The blow-into-shirt technique works for me

 

[belevitt]

I work in a medical center as well. They recently made the entire health science campus smoke free, even outside. This effectively means that smokers must leave the campus (twenty minute walk) to smoke. The reasons that were given for this decision were-
1) second hand smoke is dangerous
2) tobacco is dangerous to the user
3) smoking generates waste (butts)

Since vaping isn't dangerous to the user or others around them, and no waste is created. I feel strongly that its use is totally justified.

That being said, I wouldn't go through this whole speech for a campus policeman, I would just tell them it's an inhaler and avoid the topic of nicotine altogether.

 

[redjazzy1]

I'm an AV tech and work with nothing but boys who are into toys and they are not only jazzed over it, but supportive of my quitting analogs (who knew they cared!). But I must say that sometimes I just don't feel social and I know as soon as I whip it out that I'm going to make a spectacle of myself or cause some drama. I know this is the perfect opportunity to spread the good word, but yeah... we went for sushi today and I finished before my fiance and wanted to puff, but I didn't. But as far as work goes I just keep it in the warehouse or take it outside to continue satisfying the habit of doing so with my coworkers. I'd stick to the potty but yeah, if you're wanting to get acceptance at work with it, take the opportunity to go off property with the annys and tell 'em all about it!

 

[daniel2828]

It's nonsense, of course, but at least it was a private business that set the rules instead of the government. But yeah...get a pen style e-cig and vape in the john.

 

[mshelbz]

I typically use mine the same way I would an analog, just on my breaks.

I work with too many drama queens that would throw a fit about me using it at my desk.

 

[ecigarettes4less]

That will change eventually, its kind of a distraction at this point cause they look so cool

 

[jonnyt]

Its OK for me. I work in IT so I get to use the server room ;-) That is until someone busts me and moans about it.....im sure it wont be long lol.

 

[MlrGrl]

I was informed yesterday that I can no longer use my ecig at work because "it looks like a cigarette and doesn't look good in the public's eye"

I, too, would like to know what you do for a living.
For them to say "....in the public's eye", leads me to thing it's been used it in front of customers or in an area where customers could see you.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, but if you worked with me and were doing it where the customers could have seen you (we wore uniforms, so we stuck out like....well....vapers at an athmatic convention), then yah; I would have had to tell you not to do it in view of the public.

But, without really knowing the extent/reasoning for the comment, it's hard to offer you counsel on how to be sneaky about it LOL

I was also told not to use it at my cube - it wouldn't be "fair" to the others....so I still take my regularly scheduled breaks, and occasionally sneak a vape when nobody's looking.

Fair?? They want "fair"?? What's FAIR is for them to pony up the $$$ to get their own PV and they too can puff away!!
Fair would be having them not complain about the very faint, if any, auroma from your PV, while they are wearing that gawd aweful expsensive perfume that smells like cleaning fluid (there really is a perfume like that! I was floored when I found out it was that expensive....don't remember the name though.....)
Fair would be them using the spray in the bathroom after they.....well,...you know
Fair would be for the analoger to have to take a shower or change clothes before coming back to their desks, so you don't have the smell the analog on them....
Fair would be.......insert your own here....we all have them....

Heck; I even know of a kiosk near them that would LOVE to set them up!! (tee hee hee)

Fair....You know what would be fair to me? No one on this earth waking up in the morning and while doing their morning yawn and stretch thinking to themselves "Hmmm....what can I become perpetually offended about today???....".....

WOW! I feel a little better now. I think I'll try to get some sleep! LOL

 

[irefuse2]

I guess Im lucky I share shop space with a fire extinguisher maintence company. The service guy that works outta there is a fireman also and my one employee's smoke and mine really bothered him (made his eyes get super blood shot) but we vape now and he couldnt be happier and now we dont have to step away from the VMC in between runs to step out back to be polite anymore

 

[iam0z]

I can not believe you folks are encouraging someone to violate company policy and put their employment at risk. What are you? 9 years old? This is not sneaking a piece of candy or chewing gum in the back row of the class in elementary school. This is someone's job and in case you hadn't noticed the job market isn't exactly as friendly as it used to be. So, what is this person supposed to say at their next interview or write on their application as to why they no longer work there? That they didn't agree with set policy and did what they wanted anyway despite having been warned? You folks need to grow up.

 

[LaceyUnderall]

If they want to PAY you for a ten minute break... take it!

You are probably more productive now and that is making the complainer look really bad! ;-)

 

[Kitabz]

... but I believe that now since i mainly vape that I get more nicotine, and get worse nicotine cravings

Have you considered Swedish snus for use during the day?

 

[Malicedoll]

i blow mine down into an empty pen shell... it usually blows the vapor out and under my desk and no one can tell... if you hold the e cig, a real pen and a pen shell in your hands.. no one knows the difference.. been doing it for months...

 

[Bones]

The sad mathematical fact we have to deal with in all of our daily interactions is this:

%49.99999999 of all people on Earth are of below average intelligence and they really make life hard for the ones on the other side - -

 

[FlyingIrishman]

I was informed yesterday that I can no longer use my ecig at work because "it looks like a cigarette and doesn't look good in the public's eye" Over the past couple of months Ive had the luxury of using my ecig at work, no one complained. But one of my co workers this week raised a complaint to my supervisor and low and behold, no more esmoking for me.

I guess I'll have to leave the premises like the rest of the analog smokers and take a 10minute break!

Wow... some people.... My wife still smokes analogs and won't let smoke e-cig in the house because it isn't fair..... I told her to switch but you can only guess how that went.....