How vaping got blacklisted where I work

[Rt1Rebel]

I work for a large specialty chemical company. I have my own office, and I vape in my office, but not blatantly. A few people know I do it, and they don't care. I don't do it in front of anyone on purpose, but I've had people pop in inadvertently and see it. I know of others that also vape and I up until now I haven't seen any blatant abuse of common sense.

Yesterday, I received an email to all employees that stated that all ecig and similar device use was restricted to smoking areas. I was ...... and suspected a story behind it.

Today I got the story.

Our site manager has been holding town hall meetings. These are relatively formal events for us production folks. Basically a huge screen presentation and a podium kind of thing, with the King of the Universe at the podium. Some jackass among the ranks decided that during the King's Speech, he would huff on his device and blow smoke rings into the air while the King spoke.

 

[Buggainok]

Oh gosh. There's one in every crowd. I'm sorry he was in yours.

 

[DingerCPA]

Oh SNAP! Sorry Rebel Damn bad apples are gonna ruin it (even more) for the rest of us

 

[classwife]

 

[crxess]

To bad the ..... ruined it for the rest. Also, that king needs crowned...........Royally!

 

[rob33]

Yep, that will do it. There is always one in every group.

 

[Rt1Rebel]

The "King" is a reasonable guy, I know him a bit. And I can't blame him for being ....... There's a reason for him having these meetings, and it's not to be distracted or upstaged by someone with a different agenda (read management/union tension,) but that was a stupid display, and I'm sure "jackass" will get his due for it from his own. It pisses me off that someone would use and lose everyone's ecig privilege to make a completely unrelated statement that I disagree with.

 

[bhswmc01]

That stinks - I'm sorry! This is why I don't use a dripper at work...gotta keep the clouds small.

 

[jwag1973]

That sucks! Looks like your gonna be stealth vaping from here on out!

 

[Ken_A]

That vaper in the crowd needs a pat on the head.

With a bat.

A nice thick wooden bat.

 

[supermarket]

Sorry to hear that.

With the way things have been going, I ALREADY only consider places where smoking is acceptable/tolerated as vapor tolerant places.

When I first got into vaping....I vaped everywhere....and knowing it was much more safe than cigarettes, felt very happy about it. However, times have changed. Back then...most e-cigs were pen-like cig-a-likes, that didn't produce much vapor. Today, the vape world is entirely different. You have mods bigger than most flashlights....and RDAs/RBAs that produce 10x the vapor of yesterday. With the way things are going....it shouldn't surprise ANYONE that vaping will not be tolerated where cigarettes aren't tolerated.

We can either accept this, or not...but I only choose to swim against the current when I feel like the cause is worth the effort to resist. I'm fine with only vaping where smoking is tolerated.....I'm NOT fine with the FDA regulating e-cigs to the point where it will change everything in a negative way.

Sorry to hear for your loss

 

[CasketWeaver]

Did someone say dripper?

But yes, I agree, a solid bat, maybe with a rail road spike with the engraving "Common Sense" punched through it?

And again, sorry for the bad luck dude. I still wish our work place allowed APV's in the area, but unfortunately APV's, eCigs, Vape stuff in general is BAD where I work. Not because it "looks like smoking", but because I work with a bunch of .... hats (both in uniform and out of them) and if one of those that wear my uniform loses his / her device, batteries, or atmomizer, the other guys (outside of my uniform) may make something creative and / or potentially dangerous out of it.

But that's enough about my situation - yeah, next time you see that person, if you see that person, let them have it - and no I don't always mean physically - but let him or her know how much of a bone head they are by wrecking everyone else's vape privileges. And again, sorry for your luck.

 

[Kahuna Cowboy]

I work for a large company, they had admonished e-cigs long ago and added them to the non smoking policy, but it was not enforced..... Many of us vaped, and one day one of the less intelligent people I work with walked in blowing vapor proudly in the air, and above his cube, whereas the rest of us were discreet with our vaping inside the office. That caught the attention of one the managers, of course it had to be the one who can quote the employee rule book by heart, and he raised an issue of it and now it's enforced.

There was about 8 of us who vaped in our department, I am the last one left, every one else moved back to analogs. My manager does not harass me about it when I vape inside because I am discreet. Blow the vapor downward so no one even sees it unless they are in my cube, don't drip with an RDA, etc....

 

[Bontasia]

I have to wonder about where this is heading.

With things as they are now, there is really not much of a recourse against this but I do see a point (I hope) where you would have some room to refuse to have to go to a smoking area. Not only exposing yourself to that but the psychological aspect of being around smokers when (I assume) you quit them.

I've heard of some companies instituting "Vaping rooms".

I work at a huge fortune 100 company and there hasn't been any official word on it. I vape at my desk on a big call center production floor. I work the overnight shift so there are WAY fewer people around but I'm discrete. I get to pretty much chain vape at work and I really hope it stays that way.

It only takes one idiot to set the alarms off and screw it up for everyone.

 

[Mark Anthony]

Oh gosh. There's one in every crowd. I'm sorry he was in yours.

This exactly ^^^^^^ We all want to be accepted and most of us are respectful of how and where we vape... Then a fool like this comes along and ruins everything that we've accomplished.

 

[WattWick]

That sucks. Sorry for your loss!

While not being illegal or dangerous to third parties... vaping is one of those things that reveal some peoples lack of ability to see through others eyes.

 

[Deeo]

That sucks. To bad some people can't use common sense when needed.

 

[ppeeble]

Ok, the idiot who did that is either not a vaper and just wanted to be disruptive or has a real social interaction problem. There is no doubt that vaping in an inappropriate way in that sort of setting is going to cause problems.
A genuine vaper who needs nicotine would not be so idiotic.
Someone using vaping as a tool to deliberately cause disruption is a pig ignorant douche who cares nothing for his fellow (vaping) workers.
Lets give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is just an imbecile.

 

[Kr3wsk8er]

This is why we can't have nice things. It just astounds me that people can be so obtuse, and not know proper vaping etiquette.

 

[bosun]

People who know me don't consider me PC. When talking to the person with the poorly considered action, I would use his new name, as in "Thanks, ...***e".