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Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame
Something really offended me in this thread.
The common idea that workers who smoke in a team oriented blue collar environment leave their coworkers out to dry. This does happen, but to blame on smoking itself is ludicrous. I work in a very busy kitchen where about 20-30% of our cooks smoke. No one ever leaves the line when we are incredibly busy because we are all responsible people. Sure, some people in other businesses do apparently (Taco Bell...), but that doesn't mean you can just generalize all smokers into that category. Those people are irresponsible because they are irresponsible people, not because they smoke. This generalization irritates me to no end. And to be honest, anybody who does this is not going to get promoted or go very far in the service industry. Thank god for the free market.
People just assume that every smoker is the same evil person. It's OK though, I am used to being shamed on the sidewalks of Vancouver...
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But you are comparing different things. A Line Cook or cook in general is not abusing the right to the smoke break. This occurs constantly in the Downtown office scene it is not even funny. 6.25 hrs per week in just smoke breaks. The average person works a 7hrs day with 1 hr lunch. Essentially when you combine the numbers it works to the person only working .75 hrs 1 day and then 4 full days. Even if you factor in the random breaks non-smokers take at half the time, it is still half a day of potential production and work time.