I agree. It's not the state's ruling, it's private corporations.
My son is a college student and works at Outback. He often comments on how much less work the smoking employees do "because they are always taking smoke breaks."
Hate to say this because I know many of you are smokers, but drive by any office or factory and look at people taking "smoke breaks" while their fellow employees are working.
I've heard this one before. Someone even tried it on me once. Before I had a chance to reply, my BOSS jumped this person.
My smoke breaks are my ONLY breaks.
I once solved a vexing math problem in my sleep - I had been working on it for months, and without the solution, the project would have failed.
That solution, BTW, is currently in service in three wars, defending our troops.
Just because I am standing around, or sitting under a tree, or sleeping, who are you to determine if I am working?
My time is billed for, like a lawyers - every increment on a project is billable.
Should I have billed them for the sleep time, when I solved that particular problem?
(I did not, but we had a debate about it. LOL)
Of course, if you work in retail or something, I guess you are paid to be there, not to think. Maybe that is the problem.
Well, before the smoke natzies came along, smokers had their own smoking lounges, out of site and out of the view of the population.
Now that they are forced outside, what else do you expect of them?
"Hate to say this because I know many of you are smokers, but drive by any office or factory and look at people taking "smoke breaks" while their fellow employees are working."
Actually, our fellow employees are in the break room inside where we aren't allowed.
Those people would probably be more productive if they could smoke at their desks.
As to the non-smokers being more productive - that's a laugh - they are the ones gathered round the water coolers and coffee pots.......