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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Well, sometimes the staff who worked on my unit worked many hours over their time - but then it was all staff that did that not just the smokers.
I have to say that on the whole I had a good bunch of lasses working alongside me...and they could be called upon to come in at short notice(even those with young children)......so I don't think any of them could be classed as lazy....there were times when they just needed a fag.
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I've heard of folk suggest they should start smoking to get more breaks
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(personally i think they thought that they were missing out on the "smokers gossip")
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I use to work with a women that use to take a half hour (unauthorised) "rest bite" in the afternoon just because she assumed smokers were outside "fagging it" for 10mins every other hour.
My point is there is a stigma attached to smokers because a lot of folk think "their all at it".
Your comment strengthens my suspicions that a smokers production isn't really effected by said fag breaks (in some cases it can actually improve their production).