[Dale Wiley]

If you work for me and I pay for your health insurance, and my company would increase the rates because you smoke or dip, then you lose.

Since it is my company, and I pay the bills I get to make the rules



I dipped many years ago, but there is this thing and it is called perception. Perception is reality.

If my clients percieve that you are wasting time taking smoke breaks, then you are. If they perceive that your a slob ass with half a can of Copenhagen in your lip, then you are.

If these client opinions affect the opinion of my company then they do.

Work for some ahole commercial construction supertintendent, and he goes up your a** for taking a minute to get a fresh dip and you will soon see why things are that way.

I commend you for bailing on a bunch of grown up teenagers smoking out all day long. I hit the pipe a few times back in the day, and probably in situations where I should not have. But company culture and rules, and lawyers and lawsuits had not hit the scene yet, in fact the lawyers, cops and politicians were all hitting it too.. so that tells yo how long ago that was...