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.