Smokers getting double annual leave
July 29, 2008
Have been in new job for just over 2 weeks. New desk is positioned with optimal view of the fire escape door. This is a fitting name for it becasue it is where the hoardes of office smokers go to get cancer.
Now it would seem that the office smokers go outside, on average, 6 times a day. Each visit takes, on average, 5 minutes. That is half an hour a day, 2 and a half hours a week, and 130 hours a year. If we are expected to do 7 hours work a day, that is 18.57 work days spent smoking.
Ok i am being a bit unfair. I was working on there being 52 weeks in a year. If we get 3 weeks off for annual leave and a further 2 weeks of public and religious holidays, then I should have calculated on there being 47 working weeks in a year. The amount of work days then lost to smoking per smoker comes down to 16.8.
I am entitled to 15 days of annual leave a year. That means that each smoker gets more than double my leave entitlement. I find this grossly unfair. Rant over.









