I had one job where I was always out of the loop on what was going on because my supervisor was a smoker and I’m not.
I would always be the last to hear the gossip, getting it third-hand from one of the other employees who smoked.
The entire information exchange was outside in the parking lot where the smokers took their cigarette breaks together. I was never there.
What a great point! I had to laugh at that...I was the on-site boss of a $1.6B project and I was always the last to know what was going on because I too am not a smoker.
And, it used to really piss me off that smokers managed to get 10 to 15-minutes off every hour for a smoke.
I noticed that none of them ever volunteered to arrive at the office early or stay late to make up for goof-off smoke breaks during work hours.