yep, I understand
I used to work at a call center for technical support for a large satellite cable company (which I will not DIRECTly name here) so I would be on the phone for 8 hours every day and could not always get to the mute button in time.
I had to take an extended leave of absence due to health problems after our local hospital managed to KILL me during a routine outpatient procedure. (bled out internally in the recovery room - no bright light - I was kind of disappointed about that) Unfortunately I never got back to health and temperament to go back and have people scream at me all day long (ok, Hurricane Sandy was a terrible, terrible storm but it was not my fault there was no power (thus, no tv) for weeks on end)
While I was out I started vaping (beginning of April this year) to replace cigarettes but I still have a cough, a different cough, but a cough just the same, and honestly it is not as frequent as before. Now it might be because I chain vape all day and get absolutely no exercise. Naw, that's not it. It just must be bad luck.
Now since I have left the old employer has moved to a different insurance provider that requires a nicotine screening on all employees and any one who tests positive for nicotine (unsure what the level needs to be - but the nonsmoking and nonvaping employees were assured they would not mistakenly test positive) will need to pay 4 times what the others will have to pay for their insurance (some of the long time employees are jokingly blaming my $185,000.00 hospital bill for this change in policy)
So the insurance companies are no longer letting vapers check the no smoking box anymore if they are screening for nicotine (or possibly my former employer is doing this to cut their insurance costs - some surrounding call centers will not allow smoking or vaping on the property at all - not in your car in the parking lot even - you have to leave the property - which means the smokers that work there won't die from lung cancer, they'll die from getting hit by a car or truck driving by because they have to stand on the highway to smoke or vape)
