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Manager smoking while right next to me

  • 29-05-2019 7:27pm
    #1
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Lol. Is this your first job?


  • #3
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Maybe she doesn’t like the radio.


  • #5
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Lol. Is this your first job?

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


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  • #7
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭Problem Of Motivation


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Lol. Is this your first job?
    Most unprofessional things aren't as noticeable as this though.


  • #8
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


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


  • #9
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #10
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


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


  • #11
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭blackbox


    Was the baler indoors?


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  • #12
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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.


  • #13
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


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


  • #14
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,519 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    #2 in a series of trivial workplace annoyances.

    Can't wait for the next instalment.


  • #15
    Always number 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Always number 1


    *cough cough*

    Public Health (Tobacco) Acts 2002-2015

    *cough cough*


  • #16
    Glass fused light
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Glass fused light


    Locate the Fire extinguisher and apply to fire.

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


  • #17
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    How does the cardboard baler work?


  • #18
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭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'.


  • #19
    _blaaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Why is everyone being so mean to the OP


  • #20
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,497 ✭✭✭cml387


    kneemos wrote: »
    How does the cardboard baler work?

    Puts cardboard into bales. Smoking optional.


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  • #22
    tcawley29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭tcawley29


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Maybe she doesn’t like the radio.

    Absolutely sickened I was bet to this :pac:


  • #23
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    cml387 wrote: »
    Puts cardboard into bales. Smoking optional.

    Can't believe it's that simple.

    I mean, he needed training.


  • #24
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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?


  • #25
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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.


  • #26
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,497 ✭✭✭cml387


    kneemos wrote: »
    Can't believe it's that simple.

    I mean, he needed training.

    Oh yes.

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


  • #28
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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.


  • #30
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,211 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    _blaaz wrote: »
    Why is everyone being so mean to the OP

    Probably because the posts are arseholes?


  • #32
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,871 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #35
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #37
    Problem Of Motivation
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭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.


  • #38
    Dave147
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭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?:confused:


  • #39
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,305 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Problem Of Motivation wrote: »
    Outdoors
    So... legal to smoke.


  • #40
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,305 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    gr8 m8
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭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.


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  • #42
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    And people say we are a generation of snowflakes


  • #43
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #44
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,171 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Cardboard baler.... Combustible... Ehs


  • #45
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭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?


  • #46
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #47
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Arjun Limited Oasis wrote: »
    Sending him to get some milk?

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


  • #48
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    I’m baling my cardboard, Kate.


  • #49
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    Excellent post Johnny. A rare moment of lucidity for you.

    Thanks UC.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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!!!!


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