A non-smoking cancer survivor in Bogalusa, La. made a verbal request to the HR director at a local telephone call center to provide a non-smoking table in the outside (covered) break area.
There are currently three tables in the area, all dominated by smokers with the only options left to the nons being either suck in the second-hand smoke or stay inside. There are, you see, no other places to sit outside.
While the HR director commented he thought the request was good and valid, the site supervisor greeted it with a "good news, bad news" response. The good news, he said, was that a non-smokers area would be added but, because warm weather will soon be ending, it won't be done until next spring since people won't be going outside.
By the way, for those of you who don't know where Bogalusa is located, it's about an hour north of New Orleans and 25 minutes west of I-59 in the far southeast corner of Louisiana ... not exactly the land of blizzards and white outs.
So, in a community where the average low ranges between 38-43 degrees for the Nov.-Feb. period and the average high is between 60-64 degrees, are we to presume those three smokers tables will be removed because of weather concerns?
Don't hold your breath, unless you're a non-smoker trying to survive the cloud in the break area.
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