Wut Do You Do For A Living & Are You Allowed To Vape While @ Work?

[DaveP]

Retired since 2010, but I was a Field Engineer for Xerox. Until the last vehicle trade they allowed smoking in company vehicles, but changed that with the last trade cycle. While I was in Birmingham, AL in a new product cross training school the company announced an early retirement package that I couldn't refuse. It included a buyout with a year of salary continuance, then the pension started. When I returned back home from new product training I turned in my paper work and took the package. After 36 years with the company I had been contemplating retirement and was waiting for the right buyout incentive! Great company, but I was feeling the years, especially being in the on call rotation and having to get out of bed too often in the middle of the night for a call out.

I started vaping about a month after retirement and never looked back. My last cigarette was in April 2010. vaping rules!

 

[United States]

I work out doors where thus far vaping isn't banned.

 

[rosesense]

I work out doors where thus far vaping isn't banned.

I can see squirrels holding signs and fake coughing.

 

[Spydro]

In my working lifetime I could smoke anytime at all of those jobs where I worked for someone else, and at my own businesses. As for vaping, I started doing that in 2013 after I had already stopped smoking, and 23 years after my last real job working for someone else (and after the last one I dabbled in a little off and on for 7 years up to 13 years ago where I could smoke anytime). So my vaping has never really had anything to do with a job. I live in a city where vaping is very well known and mostly well received. I don't get out and about much the last 10 years, have not been to places here where I couldn't vape in public if I wanted to. If in doubt I always ask first, have never been told no.

 

[Fidola13]

I’m unemployed atm but was in healthcare working in hospitals mostly. No smoking and No vaping allowed on campus.

 

[evan le'garde]

That's classified.

Oh all right, i'm an Assassin for MI6. Been living in a metaphorical trench for decades and have officially assassinated 5 adult males, namely two war criminals and the three founding members of the IRA.

And i vape when ever i want !.

 

[United States]

This is my office. Don't want me vaping? Talk to the giant bucket as it whirls around and...." "THWAPP"...."oops, did you say not to vape?"

 

[Rossum]

Strippers vape. Just watch that Jenny McCarthy Vuse ad.

I'm pretty sure she did ads for Blu not Vuse. Blu was known for somewhat risque ads. Scroll down to to near the bottom of this old Forbes atricle to see an example.

 

[jtbje]

My husband and I are software trainers and work from home. I also homeschool and we own rental properties. I can vape anytime!

 

[daleron]

I’m a meat cutter for a wholesaler and ewww no I don’t vape while working

 

[greek mule]

I am unemployed now,almost all previous jobs were "delivery style"(Pizza-Courier etc.)
I smoked at the time outdoors.Start vaping later. Thinking stripper as an option..

 

[EIHYPI]

I work in the cell phone industry. I deal with the software and hardware of cell phones, doing lots of programming and at times taking apart phones and putting them back together, swapping boards and parts. I'm at a desk in a basement and for a couple years I would always need to go upstairs and outside to vape. Recently I asked my boss if he can allow me to vape and he said I can vape in the little room that leads to the trap door (outside). Now it's so much easier to work, being able to vape whenever I would like to.

 

[EIHYPI]

It took me a while to ask my boss but at least I was able to muster up the courage to ask. Usually with normal things it never hurts to ask but with a boss it's a different picture you know.

 

[Eskie]

Retired since 2010, but I was a Field Engineer for Xerox. Until the last vehicle trade they allowed smoking in company vehicles, but changed that with the last trade cycle. While I was in Birmingham, AL in a new product cross training school the company announced an early retirement package that I couldn't refuse. It included a buyout with a year of salary continuance, then the pension started. When I returned back home from new product training I turned in my paper work and took the package. After 36 years with the company I had been contemplating retirement and was waiting for the right buyout incentive! Great company, but I was feeling the years, especially being in the on call rotation and having to get out of bed too often in the middle of the night for a call out.

I started vaping about a month after retirement and never looked back. My last cigarette was in April 2010. Vaping rules!

Positions like that are rare to find these days where you can be with one company for decades and retire with a good pension plan. The younger generation will rarely get to know that sort of financial security. Now it's all either independent consultant (and not like some of us who do it part time after years of working and do it now just to keep busy with something) or a start up which will get bought out and you have no idea if you'll be asked to stay or leave, or companies that flat out don't give new hires the same opportunity for benefits the senior workers have. It's very sad to see that lost as an option for the people who just want a solid safe position and aren't entrepreneurial out to build a business for themselves.

 

[kbeam418]

I'm going into otr truck driving where my truck is my office and home so yea I'll be vaping. My current job is construction so for the most part vaping (or smoking really) is allowed. There is a few job sites where it isn't allowed but it's pretty rare, it's mostly just the large factories or office buildings where it's not allowed. The one college I worked at did have "no vaping allowed" signs but I'm guessing since we were electricians they never enforced it. My nickname was usually "douche flute" though .

 

[tdman77]

Retired last year but my wife wants me to go back to doing something. She tells me I am in between jobs and at 48yrs I am too young to retire. I am only allowed to vape in my office/man cave or outside. She is ok with my MTL vapes but gets a little testy when I start blowing clouds.

 

[YKruss]

I am a programmer and our office is open floor without any cubicles or dividers.
But after vaping for so many years anyone will develop an ability to become an "invisible" vaper.

Even my next chair co-worker, 3 feet away, won't notice me chain vaping all day long.

Of course DIY unflavored helps a lot and that's what I do.

 

[Coyote628]

Call center. No vaping indoors. But i sneak vapes off my juul anyway. And not sure but i think they know it and dont say nothin. But im not clouding up the call center either.

 

[dom qp]

I work for a financial company, in the division that sells and supports their insurance products. I do forecasting and modelling. So I pretty much stare at excel sheets all day and do math.

I rarely go into the office, only when I have in person meetings or my boss is visiting the city, and usually chain vape while working from home.

Best company i've worked for. Has a top employer reputation nationally and we're the biggest company of our type as well. I've gotten a look at how employees and clients are treated internally, and i'm impressed every time.

The company often goes way above and beyond for clients without them ever knowing, same for employees.

Couple examples:

We had a kid who needed a special kind of growth hormone to live, but it wasn't approved for that use by Health Canada so we couldn't cover it based on our contract with the kid's dad's employer. Our leadership spent days on the phone convincing the drug company to give the kid the medication for free, for life.

We had an old retiree guy who had health complications while oversea in Asia. He was bed ridden and his insurance maximums were creeping in close. He had no family or friends able to go pick him up. The company paid for a nurse and private plane to go pick him up and bring him back home so he could be admitted to a proper hospital.

And then for employees, when I started they started automating a lot of our jobs. We had too many people so they "fired" the oldest most tenured people -- gave them severances that would last until retirement and they they retired. They we're all grateful for what turned out to be early retirement.

 

[sorrynomore]

I used to manage the offset department of a fair sized print shop.I was forced into an early retirement due to health issues.

The wife was in an automoble accident some years ago and ended up with her left side completely paralysed so I suppose I'm now a retiree/caregiver.

I vape whenever and where ever I want ..... on our property