I'm a commercial real estate analyst and work in a high rise building in the city on the 25th floor. I sit in a cubicle (1/2 high....so not private) surrounded by like 150 other people (so I can't vape at my desk). There's a fair amount of smokers though, and we just venture downstairs, and go smoke on the sidewalk.
On a sidenote, it's kind of funny because there are signs on the building that say "smoke free zone". But it's kinda a joke. You can't enforce people smoking on the street in a city. So everyone still smokes right outside the building anyway. There are garbage cans, but no specialized 'smoker's friend' kinda of ashtray/disposal receptacles for the cigarette butts. So the building's janitorial staff spends a good amount of time outside, sweeping up all the cigarette butts littering the ground. One of them is a really friendly, elderly Black man. We always chat. It boggles my mind that he can just be humming and sweeping, right along side of the smokers who just throw their butts on the ground instead of walking 15 feet to a garbage can. I would be flipping out on people! There's better things to do in life then sweep up the cigarette butts of lazy people!
Now that I vape, I have been known to go down to the 16th floor, where our cafeteria is, and vape in the bathroom (it's much larger and anonymous than the bathroom on my floor). Even when I do go outside with my smoking co-workers, I feel great that I'm not adding to the pile of cigarette butts on the ground for our poor maintenance staff to sweep up. Plus I smell better too (I used to always feel paranoid that my boss could smell cigarette smoke on me before....probably did, but what can they say? Still...it's nice to know it's not an issue anymore!).
