How do I start vaping at work, first day

[.45Auto]

Anything is better than what my youngest son did yesterday with his brand-new e-cig.

He's in the 101st Airborne up at Fort Campbell, KY, to give ya'll a little background.

Smarty-Pants just whips out his GO-GO and starts vaping away in the freaking ORDERLY
ROOM, in front of God (1st Sergeant) and everybody.

1st Sergeant demands to know what in the HECK does Numbnuts think he's doing SMOKING
in HIS Orderly Room???

Cool as a cucumber, Son #2 replies, "I'm not smoking, First Sar'nt, I'm vaping. This is an
electronic cigarette."

Anyone else would've been doing pushups for life, but Top just says, "Very well, carry on."

I have NO idea where Son #2 gets his wise-acre attitude, honest....................quit laughing, you.

 

[P1NkY]

Anything is better than what my youngest son did yesterday with his brand-new e-cig.

He's in the 101st Airborne up at Fort Campbell, KY, to give ya'll a little background.

Smarty-Pants just whips out his GO-GO and starts vaping away in the freaking ORDERLY
ROOM, in front of God (1st Sergeant) and everybody.

1st Sergeant demands to know what in the HECK does Numbnuts think he's doing SMOKING
in HIS Orderly Room???

Cool as a cucumber, Son #2 replies, "I'm not smoking, First Sar'nt, I'm VAPING. This is an
electronic cigarette."

Anyone else would've been doing pushups for life, but Top just says, "Very well, carry on."

I have NO idea where Son #2 gets his wise-acre attitude, honest....................quit laughing, you.

Dang! That kid is my hero, right there!

 

[dormouse]

At my job (small company) my boss smokes and initially I still went to the warehouse (close by) to vape, where I smoked before. We share the office floorspace with another small company and when I showed the other boss my ecig he said he didn't mind if I used it in my office (and he is a non-smoker as are his employees). And my boss didn't care. I do have a private office with the door open.

Initially I was using some funky tobacco juice (Desert Ship from FSUSA) and that was a bit too pungent and it did leave a funky tobacco-like odor so I switched to cocoas, cocoa tobacco (that is mostly cocoa), and vanillas and it doesn't bother anyone.

 

[light487]

He's in the 101st Airborne up at Fort Campbell, KY, to give ya'll a little background.

ecigs without an LED would be ideal for battle situations if you think about it. There's no flame (for lighting a smoke) and no tell-tale dot of light (from the burning ember), also there is practically no smell, plus there is no waste (cigarette ....) for the enemy to find.

The more I think about it, the more obvious it seems that these should become part of the army/navy/airforce way of life (for smokers).

 

[MaileSmyth]

Smarty-Pants just whips out his GO-GO and starts vaping away in the freaking ORDERLY
ROOM, in front of God (1st Sergeant) and everybody.

What rank is he? Anything under an E-7 and he HAS to have a pair of grapefruit in pants to pull that one.

 

[Gimpy8877]

I just whip it out and vape away, but I work 3rd shift and there's no one else here.

 

[Michael Curry]

ecigs without an LED would be ideal for battle situations if you think about it. There's no flame (for lighting a smoke) and no tell-tale dot of light (from the burning ember), also there is practically no smell, plus there is no waste (cigarette ....) for the enemy to find.

The more I think about it, the more obvious it seems that these should become part of the army/navy/airforce way of life (for smokers).

The e-cig is also considerably cooler than combustion - so no heat to show up on IR gear.

We can't ban e-cigs in the name of national security!

 

[WyattZ]

My boss is cool with it... but she's 23 and a smoker.

 

[P1NkY]

The e-cig is also considerably cooler than combustion - so no heat to show up on IR gear.

Not the way I use 'em! I'm probably killing these 510 atties, but I heat 'em UP! LOL

 

[Anima]

It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. When you ask, you make the person you asked responsible for telling you that it's okay, so he or she is more likely to say "no" even if he or she doesn't really care. Of course, it depends on your situation, but I think your boss might appreciate the ability to feign ignorance if anyone wants to be a tool about it.

 

[Iffy]

It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.

That's gotten me to age 64 with 20 in the military AND married to the same bride for 42 years ...

 

[QuantumSchema]

It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. When you ask, you make the person you asked responsible for telling you that it's okay, so he or she is more likely to say "no" even if he or she doesn't really care. Of course, it depends on your situation, but I think your boss might appreciate the ability to feign ignorance if anyone wants to be a tool about it.

I pretty well agree with this. It gives you and your boss what we called in the military "plausible deniability". You may joke about it or talk about it and things but not once did you ask and not once did the boss give a firm answer. So if ever asked, the boss will probably just say "I didn't know (s)he was doing that but it's not bad though, I never even noticed." You gave them the ability to not get in trouble and they see that as a kind favor so they react by defending you when it is brought up by a superior.

Besides, if they don't like it right off the bat, just play dumb and say "But it's not smoking. It's what I'm using to help me quit smoking. It's my personal nicotine vaporizer."

 

[count dragula]

I was going down to the loading dock, the first day I brought my eGo-T into the office.
But I was showing everybody the new toy.
Sure enough, someone brought up that, since it wasn't smoke, it was okay to use it inside.
(It helps that the VA attorney general recently ruled that e/cigs aren't subject to the state's smoking bans.)

So I vape in my office all day.
I haven't quite had the nerve to break out the PV during a big meeting.
(Mostly because I don't want to derail the meeting for all the show and tell with the tech toy.)

My boss told me that he wondered why I was sucking on a laser pointer.

 

[dragit]

Hmm i wonder if they will let me vape next to a live well head....
'

Since im on a BP location... Probably not. After the oil spill we have to fill out a JSEA just to take a .... (seems like it sometimes)

 

[.45Auto]

What rank is he? Anything under an E-7 and he HAS to have a pair of grapefruit in pants to pull that one.

Son #2 is a E-4(promotable) if you can believe it.

He gets his nerve from his Mama, I swear..........

 

[Horsemen]

I would definitely ask first....better safe than sorry

 

[Mindfield]

What I did the first time I brought my E-cig to work is vaped at my desk for the first half of the day. Later on I told my immediate superior that I'd quit smoking, and explained how -- and with what. He was pretty stoked for me. He even suggested that, theoretically I could vape in the office and nobody would smell it. I said, "Well, you haven't yet, have you?" He admitted he hadn't, and that was that. Now everyone's used to seeing plumes of not-smoke rising from my desk.

 

[SomeoneOnLine]

I think it would all depend on the people and the environment you are in. In an office building type place I would just ninja vape as needed in my office of cube until someone complaining about it. Producing big ... vapor clouds in or above a cubical/office is just asking for trouble and or attention. But asking first is not a bad idea either, just to cya!

~SOL