Manager smoking while right next to me

Problem Of Motivation

She was smoking while showing me how to use the card board baler. As she was standing right next to me. At one stage she looked like such a knacker with the fag in her mouth, while both hands were occupied.

This didn't seem very professional of her. I was wondering if I should say "that cigarette is a bit too strong for me" but I didn't want to piss her off. Bloody annoying though. Having thought about it, I seriously doubt she'd done this back when I was new on the job. I've never been that close to a cigarette for so long. Yauk.

I've got a new job now, and I'd have a good mind to send a letter to her boss about this.

El_Duderino 09

Lol. Is this your first job?

Blueshoe

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

She was smoking while showing me how to use the card board baler. As she was standing right next to me. At one stage she looked like such a knacker with the fag in her mouth, while both hands were occupied.

This didn't seem very professional of her. I was wondering if I should say "that cigarette is a bit too strong for me" but I didn't want to piss her off. Bloody annoying though. I've never been that close to a cigarette for so long. Yawk.

Do you now know how to use the cardboard baler? If you weren't listening she was will have to show you again.

sullivlo

Maybe she doesn’t like the radio.

Problem Of Motivation

Blueshoe wrote: »

Do you now know how to use the cardboard baler? If you weren't listening she was will have to show you again.

I do, but if she has to show me again I will tell her. I don't care if I get fired.

El_Duderino 09

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Lol. Is this your first job?

It's not his first account, or last for that matter.

Problem Of Motivation

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Lol. Is this your first job?

Most unprofessional things aren't as noticeable as this though.

Sonny noggs

OP, hope you are well and hope you can you clarify please - what does ‘Yawk’ mean?

SEPT 23 1989

If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in the OP there are details of organisations that offer advice and support

Sonny noggs

Don’t worry OP, smokers are jokers. She will get her comeuppance, mark my words!

blackbox

Was the baler indoors?

Problem Of Motivation

blackbox wrote: »

Was the baler indoors?

Outdoors. I still think it would be common manners to put the bloody thing down while you have to stand next to someone.

Bobblehats

Shame. Not much fun being at the wrong end of a cigarette

whisky_galore

#2 in a series of trivial workplace annoyances.

Can't wait for the next instalment.

Always number 1

*cough cough*

Public Health (Tobacco) Acts 2002-2015

*cough cough*

Glass fused light

Locate the Fire extinguisher and apply to fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8uyGJzwo58

kneemos

How does the cardboard baler work?

jaxxx

Funnily enough I shared a lift with two idiots this morning who thought it was perfectly acceptable to smoke inside the lift. Cnuts. Didn't say anything cos they looked like the sort that 'shoot first, ask questions later'.

_blaaz

Why is everyone being so mean to the OP

petes

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

Outdoors. I still think it would be common manners to put the bloody thing down while you have to stand next to someone.

You'd be wrong then. Outdoors, fair game.

cml387

kneemos wrote: »

How does the cardboard baler work?

Puts cardboard into bales. Smoking optional.

tcawley29

sullivlo wrote: »

Maybe she doesn’t like the radio.

Absolutely sickened I was bet to this :pac:

kneemos

cml387 wrote: »

Puts cardboard into bales. Smoking optional.

Can't believe it's that simple.

I mean, he needed training.

Problem Of Motivation

jaxxx wrote: »

Funnily enough I shared a lift with two idiots this morning who thought it was perfectly acceptable to smoke inside the lift. Cnuts. Didn't say anything cos they looked like the sort that 'shoot first, ask questions later'.

Seriously? I wouldn't have got in.

What sort of a place was this?

Problem Of Motivation

petes wrote: »

You'd be wrong then. Outdoors, fair game.

Like I said a while ago, I still don't think she'd have been this disrespectful on my first day.

JohnnyFlash

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's not his first account, or last for that matter.

Do you spend all your time frantically hitting refresh on this site just so you can post about your extraordinary discovery that people re-reg on this site? Might I suggest you find something more intellectually and emotionally satisfying to do with your time? That dude Srameen is quicker off the mark than you as well, so no need for two hall monitors to be on duty all the time.

cml387

kneemos wrote: »

Can't believe it's that simple.

I mean, he needed training.

Oh yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u3QInIMVME

Turtyturd

blackbox wrote: »

Was the baler indoors?

You’d hope so, a baler made of cardboard isn’t going to last too long out in the rain.

Problem Of Motivation

Glass fused light wrote: »

Locate the Fire extinguisher and apply to fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8uyGJzwo58

There was a regular customer who was smoking next to the pumps recently. The same fella is a bit stupid. When he came in to pay I told him not to do smoke like that. The assistant manager was also aware of it and did nothing. He didn't like it one bit and has been sarcastic towards me since.

As a matter of fact, I later saw him chatting to the assistant manager as if they were best friends.

Problem Of Motivation

Turtyturd wrote: »

You’d hope so, a baler made of cardboard isn’t going to last too long out in the rain.

There's a shelter over it.

Grandeeod

_blaaz wrote: »

Why is everyone being so mean to the OP

Probably because the posts are arseholes?

TuringBot47

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

There's a shelter over it.

Good, when you get fired for being a toxic employee if you're lucky they might let you sleep under it.

Until you can rise above the level of an acne ridden teenager in the job market then beggars can't be choosers.

mrcheez

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

She was smoking while showing me how to use the card board baler. As she was standing right next to me. At one stage she looked like such a knacker with the fag in her mouth, while both hands were occupied.

This didn't seem very professional of her. I was wondering if I should say "that cigarette is a bit too strong for me" but I didn't want to piss her off. Bloody annoying though. Having thought about it, I seriously doubt she'd done this back when I was new on the job. I've never been that close to a cigarette for so long. Yauk.

I've got a new job now, and I'd have a good mind to send a letter to her boss about this.

Name checks out

But yeah 2nd hand smoke is a pain in the gnads.

It's the equivalent of someone coming up to you and waving a dirty bedsheet all over you, invading your personal space.

JohnnyFlash

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Do you spend all your time frantically hitting refresh on this site just so you can post about your extraordinary discovery that people re-reg on this site? Might I suggest you find something more intellectually and emotionally satisfying to do with your time? That dude Srameen is quicker off the mark than you as well, so no need for two hall monitors to be on duty all the time.

It's a matter of integrity sticking with the one account, as opposed to scores of cheapos. Something you know only too well.

mcmoustache

Turtyturd wrote: »

You’d hope so, a baler made of cardboard isn’t going to last too long out in the rain.

Yeah, I got one of those Nintendo Labo balers for the hay. It was far cheaper than a metal one and lighter too which saved a lot on the old green diesel for the Massey.



Like the OP's workplace, I have to keep it covered though because of the rain.

petes

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Do you spend all your time frantically hitting refresh on this site just so you can post about your extraordinary discovery that people re-reg on this site? Might I suggest you find something more intellectually and emotionally satisfying to do with your time? That dude Srameen is quicker off the mark than you as well, so no need for two hall monitors to be on duty all the time.

Is your other account going to come along and agree with you?

Problem Of Motivation

Deleted User wrote: »

It's a matter of integrity sticking with the one account, as opposed to scores of cheapos. Something you know only too well.

Such high minded talk about, of all things, anonymous online accounts. Dear God, nobody cares. But maybe the thought of having a particular reputation online matters to you.

Dave147

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

I do, but if she has to show me again I will tell her. I don't care if I get fired.

Why would she be showing you again in your new job?

the_syco

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

Outdoors

So... legal to smoke.

the_syco

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

I do, but if she has to show me again I will tell her. I don't care if I get fired.

You'll probably get fired if they think they have to show you how to do it again.

gr8 m8

Hello.

Is it not a good thing that she feels free enough with you to smoke in front of you?

I often smoked in front of my bosses when outside and they didn't care as long as I was working and getting the job done.

Stephen15

And people say we are a generation of snowflakes

El_Duderino 09

Stephen15 wrote: »

And people say we are a generation of snowflakes

Be fair, it's not a serious OP. Look at the other 2 threads they started and is fairly obvious that they're messing. I feel like Generation Z is being trolled

Ash.J.Williams

Cardboard baler.... Combustible... Ehs

Deebles McBeebles

OP is this the same mad woman who had the temerity to turn up 'Faith' by George Michael?

She's like a bloody Terminator, there no stopping her. Turning up radios, smoking outdoors..... I mean, what's next?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

She's like a bloody Terminator, there no stopping her. Turning up radios, smoking outdoors..... I mean, what's next?

Sending him to get some milk?

Deebles McBeebles

Arjun Limited Oasis wrote: »

Sending him to get some milk?

OP is no doubt lactose-intolerant and would balk at this task.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

I’m baling my cardboard, Kate.

Utter Consternation

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Do you spend all your time frantically hitting refresh on this site just so you can post about your extraordinary discovery that people re-reg on this site? Might I suggest you find something more intellectually and emotionally satisfying to do with your time? That dude Srameen is quicker off the mark than you as well, so no need for two hall monitors to be on duty all the time.

Excellent post Johnny. A rare moment of lucidity for you.

JohnnyFlash

Utter Consternation wrote: »

Excellent post Johnny. A rare moment of lucidity for you.

Thanks UC.

OP should consider the smoker is perhaps not the brightest bulb on the xmas tree. As such, that job may just be all she has. Leaving for a new position elsewhere and then reporting her to her boss is just a nasty spineless thing to do.
If you hadn't the balls to say it at the time, don't go crying to her boss when you're miles away in her rear view.. that's snowflake ****! Her behaviour is not aligned with my lifestyle, rather than discussing it, I want her destroyed!!!!