So my manager went "Eww an e-cig"....

[Yokymo]

So this is the story. We arent allowed to do anything in sight of customers and since we really dont have a break room where i work, I have to go outside and vape.

So last night, was one of those nights i just had to step outside and collect myself. Then my manager was like "what you smoking", then he realized it was an ecig, and he went inside. he gave me that "eww an e-cig" reaction. I was all types of confused. I tried explainiing to him these arent as eww as the analogs we sell to customers every day. so i told him that it's watermelon and well it really just tastes like candy, then proceeded if i wouldnt get fired i'd stay inside, but i like money so why get fired over something like that.

Anyway, it was really one of those reactions that even caught me off guard. And i'm still new to the game.

Kinda just baffled me that he instantly went eww when he found out it was an e-cig. Then to top it off he didnt even want me to explain anything to him bout them, he just wanted to stick with his eww and called it a day.

Oh well, just wanted to share me moment with you all. Have you all had similar reactions by people? I'm sure you have, dunno why I ask..lol.

 

[tj99959]

Think of it from his point of view. If you are using an e-cig, you're not buying his cigarettes.

 

[Butters78]

If you're manager actually said "what you smoking?" instead of "what are you smoking?" that is just plain sad.

 

[UncleChuck]

You see, there are stupid people, and there are Ignorant people.

Ignorant people just lack knowledge or experience. The word ignorant has gotten a bad wrap, it's not really an insult, everyone is ignorant of a great many thing. Ignorant people are like a dry sponge, given the opportunity they will soak up the knowedge to relieve them of their ignorance.

Your manager, on the other hand, is just STUPID. That's the worst kind of people. They are incredibly ignorant, yet refuse to learn, their mind is closed, that makes them stupid.

Don't bother yourself with stupid people, but be forgiving and patient with the ignorant.

 

[daddytwigs]

If you're manager actually said "what you smoking?" instead of "what are you smoking?" that is just plain sad.

What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?

 

[TBPlayer2112]

Some people here the term e-cigarette or e-cig and they still instantly correlate that with smoking tobacco. Most of the people that I've given a brief explanation to about what it is I'm using usually just nod and say, 'huh, well how 'bout that?'.

 

[Iffy]

Just tell him that you're vaping a PENIS (Personal Electronic Nicotine Inhalation System). Ya never know...

 

[TCasualties]

He probably tried the Blu as a first experience.

 

[Robino1]

Or you could say, this is what has helped me quit smoking....then explain what it is. Some people just hear the word cigarette and tune out the rest. :x

 

[Baditude]

You see, there are stupid people, and there are Ignorant people.

Ignorant people just lack knowledge or experience. The word ignorant has gotten a bad wrap, it's not really an insult, everyone is ignorant of a great many thing. Ignorant people are like a dry sponge, given the opportunity they will soak up the knowedge to relieve them of their ignorance.

Your manager, on the other hand, is just STUPID. That's the worst kind of people. They are incredibly ignorant, yet refuse to learn, their mind is closed, that makes them stupid.

Don't bother yourself with stupid people, but be forgiving and patient with the ignorant.

Just. Simply. Brilliant.

 

[DummyMe]

I've had someone tell me that ecigs would kill me deader than real cigs. Now that's stupid.

 

[daddytwigs]

I've had someone tell me that ecigs would kill me deader than real cigs. Now that's stupid.

Good, I don't want to be a zombie anyway

 

[DiNet]

Maybe he had tried something awful like many had in those rotten kiosks... Why do you care? Just ignore him... nobody cares about his opinion.

BTW for time I'm vaping I have at least 10 people telling me that it's much worse than analog and will kill me in my sleep...
... based on "I've heard" argument. Where did you hear that? Well, umm everyone say that!

Oh well... I'm the "odd" one in the office anyway... they can't get over price tag on my Hi-Fi system and chuckle saying their 12$ logitech sounds the same.
Ignorance is a bliss.

 

[zapped]

Stupid people abound. Just yesterday I posted on FB how much I was looking forward to a home-made Osso Bucco that I had slow cooked for 16 hours. 2 minutes later my little brother is pming me asking what the hell an Osso Bucco is....this is the one who tried to 'educate" me about how I should eat my steaks well done...all I could do was laugh.

 

[SissySpike]

I assess the situation and if needed I lie and simply say breathing treatments.

 

[grandmato5]

You can't fix stupid I have one of those bosses that believes whatever the FDA says MUST be true To her the FDA is the golden child of government and only EVER works for our best interest Ecigs to her are more dangerous then smoking cigarettes. She made up her mind and that's end of conversation. I guess that wouldn't seem so bad to me IF all the years I'd smoked she'd had the same militant stand against my smoking but that wasn't the case. She would have preferred I didn't smoke, but she was tolerant of it. No tolerance for ecigs from her.

 

[bigdaddybrink1]

My direct manager told me to ignore the policy of no e-cigs in the office as it was stupid. Course it took a while of him realizing that using an e-cig is better for you and I'm more productive at work he was all about it. Course there aren't customers where I work, and I work night shift......on a computer.....don't think it matters. As far as your manager, he's plain lame!!

 

[Skyway]

You will get this a lot from Ignorant people. There ignorance shows when they actually think an ecig have more or worse chemicals than a normal cigarette does. I normally just tell that person, at least I am not inhaling carpet glue. They usually give me a blank stare and I let them know when I show them the FSC code on the bar graph. I tell them it stands for Fire Safety Code. Essentially carpet glue put into the paper so the cigarette will go out if not puffed enough. When they realize I am telling the truth since everyone that smokes now sees this, they either go eww to the cigarette in their mouth or they block it out of their mind so they don't feel bad about their own misfortune, lol.
Not that the 1000's of other chemicals in a cigarette aren't bad enough, the FSC is something that they can actually see in the works.

 

[alank]

I was filling in for the regular driver and took my small pocketable PV with me for the ride. I generally don't vape openly. I was taking a quick hit and one of the passengers yells up to me "is that your vaporizer?" I reply "yeah" he babbles on and everybody accepts it. Heck, I decided I didn't need to sneak the next full hit as the psychological precedent was set up for me
But another time I had a smoke nazi take me to task. On that occasionI lied and claimed it was a 0 nic formula and was purely flavor and vg.
So, I follow some updated patterns these days "Yeah it's a vaporizer" is my response, the less it looks like a cigarette the better and use flavorless to leave less of a trace. I may have to update my preferred diy near 100% vg mix to something less cloudy...

Yes Virginia it is a vaporizer

 

[Rocketpunk]

Sadly, my boss is the same way.

He cannot STAND us vapers. He hates it even more than when his employees sneak off to smoke real cigarettes.

None of us employees can understand why he is so anti-vaping. If he sees our mods or ecigs, he makes us put them away. Just like the OP, he warns us that if customers see us vaping in the back of the house, us employees will get into biiiiig trouble, possibly even sent home, with a subsequent ban on ecigs.

He did kinda catch me off guard, though. "All you vapers are gonna find out you're gonna get cancer."

Me: "Well, it's safer than a real cigarette. Would you rather I go back to smoking real cigarettes?"

Him: "I'd prefer you do nothing at all, period."

Me: "Uh....."

He tolerates people texting on their cellphones nonstop, which annoys the crap out of me. But the moment a PV appears in an employee's hand, he freaks the flip out.

So this is the story. We arent allowed to do anything in sight of customers and since we really dont have a break room where i work, I have to go outside and vape.

So last night, was one of those nights i just had to step outside and collect myself. Then my manager was like "what you smoking", then he realized it was an ecig, and he went inside. he gave me that "eww an e-cig" reaction. I was all types of confused. I tried explainiing to him these arent as eww as the analogs we sell to customers every day. so i told him that it's watermelon and well it really just tastes like candy, then proceeded if i wouldnt get fired i'd stay inside, but i like money so why get fired over something like that.

Anyway, it was really one of those reactions that even caught me off guard. And i'm still new to the game.

Kinda just baffled me that he instantly went eww when he found out it was an e-cig. Then to top it off he didnt even want me to explain anything to him bout them, he just wanted to stick with his eww and called it a day.

Oh well, just wanted to share me moment with you all. Have you all had similar reactions by people? I'm sure you have, dunno why I ask..lol.