AWESOME!! I am checking into bulk discounts for 20 or more.
This would 10 times worse than when of my fire alarms starts beeping in the middle of the night.
.... Head at Work
- Thread starter dherrington
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
-
- Tags
- provari
- Status
This would 10 times worse than when of my fire alarms starts beeping in the middle of the night.
They also make a Christmas Tree ornament based on that chip called the Tannen Bomb....perfect for annoying relatives and family friends during the holidays.
Plant one of these under his desk and try to stifle your laughs.He'll get the picture just make sure there are no surveillance cameras
ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron
I decided to avoid conflict because, as you said, it could wind up backfiring and leading me to not being able to use it at all. Since I just moved yesterday, I selected a new cube 30 feet away. If he can still smell it, then he isn't a human, he's a blood hound. LOL
I get a lot of second looks while Im in my car. I just smile and tip my PV to them. If you look like you are trying to hide it you just look more suspicious! Last time I looked nicotine was legal!
Incidentally, the only coworker I work with last week said the 'smell' was bothering his sinuses from my PV. I was polite about it and vaped in another room ( I'm not going outside. I have my boss's permission to vape indoors.) Anyway, Sunday ( a day he works alone and I am off.) he called out. Apparently it didn't dawn on him maybe he was getting the cold the rest of us had passed around for a while. Oi. /shakes fist
Many moons ago, after I was discharged from the Marines, I had a job as an armed Security Officer at a large commercial office building. One of my Officers was posted in the main entrance greeting employees as they arrived. The sun rose directly in his face, so he wore sunglasses. He wore mirrored aviators (I DID say this was many moons ago...). A female tenant complained to management that she felt "very uncomfortable" because she couldn't see his eyes and felt he was "checking her out". (side note: she was NOT "check out worthy"). She demanded action.
Managements decision ? NO SUNGLASSES can be worn by Security while on property !! I got the memo and called management to verify, as surely they meant no "mirrored" sunglasses. Nope. NO sunglasses at all !! Now all of us were getting headaches instead.
Imagine my frustration having to tell my staff the most recent decision by management.
Management don't always make proper decisions.
I noticed that when I vape in my office then leave and shut the door then come back the smell of my vapor lingers with some of my favorite juices, so I try to stick with light flavors like buttered popcorn or mix up some juice with just a hint of mint. and people have stopped saying wow it smells like incense in here
Last edited:
Well, my coworker complained about me using mine at my desk. He's an odd duck to say the least and I won't go into that, but I continued to use my ego and just swap around the flavors here and there. He first said that he was getting a headache from it. Go figure, the next day he's sick after I avoid using it around him (just ran across the hall to the server room). I then resume using it at my desk and no complaints at all from him.
My son works at a car dealer. The garage is about as big as an airplane hangar with bay doors opening and shutting all day and he still had the one biggest pita coworker complain about him vaping. Some people just need to make it all about them.
The smell I can understand maybe. But skin problems? I call BS.
The smell I can understand maybe. But skin problems? I call BS.
I used to be allowed to vape at work. Then one day we had a staff meeting and they said we could no longer do it. Come to find out of the my coworkers I converted was vaping in front of customers. So yeah one idiot ruined it for the rest of us vapers.
some people are just drama queens that will make a big deal out of anything. My experience is that management in general can't fire someone for complaining about abstract crap, they just find it annoying and do anything to avoid having to listen to the drama, so what always ends up happening is that one drama queen usually ruins everything for everyone around them.
I haven't found the solution, other than to get as far away from them as possible. I do daydream about beating them to a pulp in the parking lot (men, not women!), as it was at my old job. I was in a cube, the ones with the short walls, surrounded by dozens and dozens of other cubes.. vaping would have been impossible there, as I was sitting next to a drama-king who was unfortunately very short and had the worst case of Napoleon syndrome I've ever known. A major ....... God I wanted to beat him mercilessly.
Anyways, yeah, went on a tangent there lol. seems like the whole country is "special interests" making unpopular decisions for everyone else. I fear vaping will someday be a casualty of this. I don't wanna go back to analogs, but if vaping became illegal/banned, I know I would.
I haven't found the solution, other than to get as far away from them as possible. I do daydream about beating them to a pulp in the parking lot (men, not women!), as it was at my old job. I was in a cube, the ones with the short walls, surrounded by dozens and dozens of other cubes.. vaping would have been impossible there, as I was sitting next to a drama-king who was unfortunately very short and had the worst case of Napoleon syndrome I've ever known. A major ....... God I wanted to beat him mercilessly.
Anyways, yeah, went on a tangent there lol. seems like the whole country is "special interests" making unpopular decisions for everyone else. I fear vaping will someday be a casualty of this. I don't wanna go back to analogs, but if vaping became illegal/banned, I know I would.
The unfortunate thing about vaping is it is just too new to the world and most non-smokers automatically associate it with smoking. It is all about information and studies. Maybe you should put together some facts and studies about the positive side to vaping, (the effects on your health as well as others), and have the HR department or yourself with their help, present said information to inform the non-smokers in your company about vaping in general. I know a lot of companies have HR meetings with employees about other issues such as discrimination, OSHA, and others. Why not one on vaping? You could find almost all the info you would need on CASAA.org... The only reason I think, (and this is my opinion), we can't vape on airplanes and in some public places is that to a smoker, (who is told), they are not able to smoke and are already uncomfortable about it, and then there is me next to them blowing huge clouds and their desires are intensified while mine is being satisfied! So to keep that intensity at a minimum they are asking us to not vape... Very simple actually... Its all about being respectful.
While I enjoy my vaping habit, I know and am aware that others around me sometimes feels uncomfortable to say the least. That is until they are educated a little by me. I find it is more about the curiosity of it more than anything else. I love it when someone used to ask what I did with that cigarette I was just smoking, or did you just put that lit cigarette in your pocket? Now I use an APV and don't get asked those questions anymore or the dirty looks because they know I wasn't smoking a cigarette. Now they think I'm smoking something illegal and their curiosity is peaked even more. I kindly explain it when either asked or I see that look on their face!
As to the smell of it, I will say this, there are some liquids out there that are just pungent and hard for even me to handle. I smoked for 40+ years!! I vape menthol only and every so often someone I am around will say they can actually smell something. It is usually right after I took a dry hit and what they thought they smelled was actually a dry atty and not the actual liquid I was vaping!! After priming the atty and taking a vape and blowing it in their general direction, I got the response, "I can't smell anything"... Some of the liquids I have tried in the past such as when I tried Boba's, it made me sick to my stomach, not only the taste of it but also the smell. It lingered in the room it seemed for hours! I can understand that part of it coming from someone that doesn't smoke or vape. I have a friend that vapes a clove type of liquid and it did the same thing to me that it did when I was around someone that smoked them...got the dry heaves and gagged from the smell...and I again smoked for 40+ years... You have to keep in mind that what is pleasant to you might not be to someone else.
Bottom line is we as a community cannot give any additional fuel for them to add to the fire for them to take away another of our pleasures in life!!! Just like the FDA battle right now... hit them where it hurts, with the facts and be smart about it...
While I enjoy my vaping habit, I know and am aware that others around me sometimes feels uncomfortable to say the least. That is until they are educated a little by me. I find it is more about the curiosity of it more than anything else. I love it when someone used to ask what I did with that cigarette I was just smoking, or did you just put that lit cigarette in your pocket? Now I use an APV and don't get asked those questions anymore or the dirty looks because they know I wasn't smoking a cigarette. Now they think I'm smoking something illegal and their curiosity is peaked even more. I kindly explain it when either asked or I see that look on their face!
As to the smell of it, I will say this, there are some liquids out there that are just pungent and hard for even me to handle. I smoked for 40+ years!! I vape menthol only and every so often someone I am around will say they can actually smell something. It is usually right after I took a dry hit and what they thought they smelled was actually a dry atty and not the actual liquid I was vaping!! After priming the atty and taking a vape and blowing it in their general direction, I got the response, "I can't smell anything"... Some of the liquids I have tried in the past such as when I tried Boba's, it made me sick to my stomach, not only the taste of it but also the smell. It lingered in the room it seemed for hours! I can understand that part of it coming from someone that doesn't smoke or vape. I have a friend that vapes a clove type of liquid and it did the same thing to me that it did when I was around someone that smoked them...got the dry heaves and gagged from the smell...and I again smoked for 40+ years... You have to keep in mind that what is pleasant to you might not be to someone else.
Bottom line is we as a community cannot give any additional fuel for them to add to the fire for them to take away another of our pleasures in life!!! Just like the FDA battle right now... hit them where it hurts, with the facts and be smart about it...
If you go tot the CASAA website you can find free printable information. I carry some in my car every day.
So how on God's green earth did people convince others that smoking ciggabutts was socially acceptable many, many moons ago!
Because it was new and cool, and after 5 centuries nearly everyone on God's green earth was doing it.
In the last 20 years, smoking has become a social stigma, and anything short of quitting cold turkey or through medically approved drugs and programs is also regarded in that light. Especially to non-smokers.
Hell, to non-smokers all we've done is find a different way to feed our addiction (which we have), and they don't understand the differences or the positive effects of our choice. These days it's more socially acceptable to have diabetes as a result of unhealthy eating habits than it is to have emphysema as a result of smoking.
Congrats on the B and M job Rocketpunk!
I have a tattoo on my arm of Calvin with one hand in his pocket and the other flipping the bird.
Hey Zapped....found this picture (I had to crop it and scale it) from about 20 years ago....I played bass in a band that jammed alot of Ramones, Green Day, Nirvana and anything else easy to play with bar chords.....LOL...we were loud and obnoxious....but all lived together in a house with a pool in the backyard....summers were those of legend around here....
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Locked
