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So I have smoked before going to work and there are some pros and cons...
Pros are I don't feel depressed at work (one of the reasons I take medication) and I am more focused on my duties and getting them done.
Cons are my manager knows I smoke and although she says she's cool with it, she keeps on giving me weird looks and so do other people.
So I would like to know your guy's opinion on what I should do...
Thank you!
Keep your productivity up!
They won't call you on it unless you are a screw up, so don't screw up.
What do you do for work?
FAR FAR FAR too many varibles to even make comment on this .
What kind of job is this ?
Are saftey issues involved , OSHA , D.O.T , HAZ. MATS ?
Need more info .
Crispi :stoned:
yes with an if, no with a but...
Retail.Quote:
Originally Posted by foxfire342
Just dont get too blazed so theywont notice..
:jointsmile:
Customers may not appreciate you having a glazed-over stoner looks in your eyes, or a smell of weed on your cloths. I've learned over the years that as as a stoner, you smell 10x as much to non-stoners as you do to your own kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by FloraLaura
eg. When I bought some pot in one town, I put it in my inside pocket of my leather coat. I smelled the coat and said to my buddies "wow, leather really covers up the smell nicely." They gave it a whiff and said they couldn't smell it at all either. So I took the bus back to my hometown, and when I got off my mom met me and said "holy shit [my name], you really reek of dope!" And no, I hadn't smoked before or during the ride.
Anywhoo, just a heads up for you and all stoners here. :jointsmile:
That might be because it permeated, smell eventually gets through almost everything. Thatā??s why you canā??t just put weed into a plastic container in your luggage and take a 12 hour flight. Ok maybe it takes longer than that but it will eventually permeate through the plastic pores and the dogs will smell it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
Eh, if your manager is cool with then I want your job!
Lol, on a more serious note, the "weird looks" you're receiving may be blown out of proportion by paranoia.
When I read the the title of this my instinct was "NO!!!" but if your manager is cool with it... yes. If you feel like customers are noticing take steps to make it less noticeable. In case you don't know how I'll just list a quick few
-use eye drops (I use visine natural tears, they clear my eyes right up)
-use some sort of deoderant body spray (I use addidas, lots of people like axe)
-if you can, smoke wearing a different shirt than the one you wear at work
-wash your hands and face after smoking
-brush your teeth after blazing, or use mints/gum to cover the smell on your breath.
I'd like to conclude by again saying I want your job.
Yeh, I agree. Just the weed makin' you think they look strangely at you. The customers might but Boss's always look at you anyway and you're probably just perceiving it as a strange look.
Just do your work well and nobody will care. There's no dangers of being high in retail.:jointsmile:
I say keep right on smokin' :jointsmile:I hear what you are saying about being focused and productive while baked at work, same thing for me.
And yeah it is probably just the weed when you think people are looking. I say keep on keepin' on.
Depends if you can handle it. I'd advise only a bowl before you go.
You have to be careful about a supervisor that says ganja is cool or o.k.
The last place I was employeed had one of those cool owners, he always said he did
not care what we did. Then out of the blue he said he would call the man if I or any of the other employees came in under the influence.
I think maybe he told us it was ok so he could find out who was puffin'
... NOT if you work for ME ! :D
Yeah this definitely depends on the line of work and your responsibilities. As a physical therapist I don't think I'd ever even consider it. I mean with all the proper precautions I'm pretty sure I could pull it off, but I'd feel guilty being technically under the influence while trying to help people deal with their problems and conditions. There's a great deal of people skills involved with the profession as well and I wouldn't want for one second someone to think I was high. But I mean if I was flipping burgers or a cook of some kind (I was breakfast cook in highschool at a morning bagel/deli store) then there would be no choice other than getting high before :rasta:
Stay high
Depends on the line of work.
Retail is pretty mindless stuff, so I don't see anything wrong with going to work high in that context. Provided, of course, you don't get too baked. Years ago when I was in retail I would go to work high pretty often. When you're on your feet, jumping between registers, helping customers, and answering the phones it's pretty easy to remain sharp since the work is more physical and social. I worked for a reputable, high end clothing retailer on one of the larger shopping districts in the world, and almost everyone openly smoked. I think it's the only way anyone can handle working in that environment for such shitty pay. I know my attitude was always better when I went in high.
I've moved on professionally since then, and now I'm an accountant. My current job just involves too many new day to day challenges to handle while high. Admittedly I tried it a few times. Discussing the finer points of taxing complex non-profit partnership structures with the CFO proved to be a little overwhelming. Company policy states I could also face termination if anyone found out I was high on the job. So, now I just wait 'till night time. Keeps the tolerance lower I suppose.
I don't get high on company time.
i usually do, but only a bowl usually. just because i frequently wake n bake, so i usually wake about an hour before work so i am still a little high when i go in.
but sometimes i wake hours before going to work, and need to re-up my high.
and working retail is not too hard to do high. The toughest part is that the work i do sometimes involves me talking for more than 30 seconds about one subject, which can get hard to do, but i usually just stop what im saying, and just stare at what i am trying to say for a few seconds then i am able to just start back up. I mainly get my words mixed up and stutter, but that is a problem i am developing outside of smoking as well, though it happens more often when i smoke.
Smoke Before During and After!!!!!
All day everyday... I know guys that can not work @ all unless they Blaze one up.... Give them a joint and they turn into A1 employee... Sometimes you need to take a worker outback and smoke them out to get a good day out of them.... TRUE SHIT...LOL:jointsmile::jointsmile::jointsmile::joi ntsmile:
ya man, paranoia is always shitty. whenever i went to my classes high, i'd always think people could notice but later on i'd realize that it was all in my head. my opinion on this is get baked, cover it up, have fun, do your job go home and get baked some more.
It's part of my job.
A typical day at 'work' for me can include...
Medible testing
Vaporizer demonstrations (Three different ones)
Posting on Cannbis.com and other MMJ sites
Strain evaluations
Answering questions like...
"What do you think of my first harvest?"
"Can you teach my grandson how to tell when my plants are ready to harvest?"
"Can I roll another joint?"
"Will you show me how to use my new bong?"
Yes I can. Yes you can. Yes I will. :jointsmile::D
I also use cannabis.com as a teaching tool.
I use the FAQ's here most every day to help people learn to grow their own medicine.
Now some of our other members are posting here too!
i love doing menial labor when high, when i landscape i love being high because the work gets done and then 30 minutes later you forgot you even did it hahah
I don't smoke before work personally, but if it really helps you with your job then do it. However, appearance is important to customers and therefore important to your managers, and directors. If you appear stoned and the customers are noticing then it's probs not a good idea, unless you can shrug it off onto some other legit reason. But the fact your manager knows you smoke makes the whole thing a bit iffy. People seem to be too trusting at times (especially in the work enviroment), so regardless of how understanding your manager may appear the possibility is there that it's being used as ammunition. Like I say if you feel you can pull of being stoned at work, and have a valid reason for doing so then go for it. Just be very careful, and maybe think twice as to whether or not you really need that joint.
Are we talking a lightly medicated level or recreational level?
My boss pays me to be ready to perform any task in my job description at any time. So I would never consider coming in after smoking to the point where I can actually feel it. I manage a lab. It could be absolutely DISASTROUS to show up stoned, and I'd rather call in sick or even use up a personal day than risk the safety of myself or others by working impaired. One bong hit at 7am before I go to work for 9 will cut my anxiety down to a manageable level without any 'high' feeling.
If I had employees, I'd be RIPSHIT if they showed up noticeably high, or even hung over. Anything self-inflicted and avoidable that would make them less able to focus on working with deadly chemicals would also make me send them home and write up a report in their personnel file, and if it happened again, they'd be GONE.
Now, the dish washer at the diner or the chick whose job it is to water plants at a nursery is not likely to kill anyone by making a mistake...
I smoke at my work... with my boss. But then again I work at a diner as a prep. cook so its unlikely I'm going to be hurting anyone or myself from being too stoned.
What I would do to have your job.Quote:
Originally Posted by psteve
What a life and what a career.
My jobs are weak but at least I can smoke before I go (and during break if I feel like it). I actually work in about 3 hours. I'll be burning a bowl on my drive over there.
Yes. But some of my ex co-workers became lazier people 'cause of it. For example, they'd be too tired to shop for groceries or run other errands at the end of the day. Sometimes, they'd complain that they would just go straight home and take a long nap.
There are two questions you must ask yourself before you go to work high.
1. Does my job have the ability to kill or harm someone (including yourself) if I completely space for 10-20 minutes and look at the back of my hand....or the snickers, whatever??
2. Am I going to get fired for being high at work?
The answer to number 1 is the only really important question. Me, for example, I would probably die if I went to work high, because I work with elevators, which can and will kill you if you're not paying attention. However, you're scanning items and having people pay for stuff. The worst you could mess up is not counting properly or pissing off a customer. So no bodily harm done, no foul, smoke away.
The answer to number 2 is really a personal question. Could you give a **** if you got fired? If no, toke up, go in, enjoy, however, if you care about your job, or are in a hostile smoke environment, keep it at home.
:thumbsup::jointsmile:
I don't like being high at work unless im there with some else who's high... which happens a lot (i work at a coffee shop)
Here's a story though
First time i hit a bong was on my way to work.. imagine that.. I just made prep all night. My manager was stoned but hell... I was gone. i really dont remember that night :icon506:
I smoked some sage at home then went in to
work once
I lost the main key to the office
I was stoned and embarressed
nerver did dat agin
stoney one
...You got stoned off sage? :wtf:Quote:
Originally Posted by silkyblue
I worked in the skilled trades and I often was high at work. I worked in the city on outdoor lighting and signs often hunreds of feet in the air sitting in a bowson's chair. (Most of the) old timers would hit the packy (liquor store) first thing in teh morning and chug on brandy all morning while they worked. Lunch was at a bar as was the afternoon break or sometimes from noon on. It wasn't a very bright thing to do, but I was a kid, just going along with the old guys. They would let me smoke, but I always had to drive. Later on at different jobs working in construction many of us would smoke up and or drink all the time. As I got older I noticed that the afternoons were getting too long. Whn I quit getting a buzz at lunch I felt alot better about that. The last ten years or so I didn't/don't drink or smoke anything before or during work. But, once or twice I've gotten calls emergency service when I've been less than straight. Can't help that though.
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Originally Posted by L Rag
I believe he got stoned off of S.A.G.E which is somethin like super afghani genetics something haha look it up if your interested i dont care if im toasted and not ripped off its a great strain:stoned:
after not having money, nor weed, i realize that work goes better on the days when i dont smoke first, maybe its cause the paranoia isnt there, but it does go by smoother, though on the 2 big delivery days, i love being high, especially when the deliverys are in the morning, being high and listening to the music i want, i get to choose the music for the store pretty much everyday, is possibly the best feeling ever, especially when you move several hundred 40 pound bags of food in under 2 hours.
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You got stoned off sage?
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yes I thought this is a sagebrush bb
wtf
I work at a botanical center, and I hit a bong before I ride my bike to work, most days at least.
Pros- I actually enjoy working with the plants. I don't have to work with customers much.
Cons- Someone might notice the red eyes. I might fuck up feeding plants.
:rastasmoke:
I smoke up before I go into work every day.. anywhere from .25 grams to 1 gram. It should be noted that I have a fairly high tolerance (which I may take a month long hiatus from the herb in order to restore my tolerance to a lower level).
I vaporize which nearly eliminates the odor on my clothes and my breath. My non smoking girlfriend and my best friends family says they never smell anything so I know I'm safe on those grounds.
Typically I just smoke enough to get me into my thinking state and a happy high. Once I'm there I put down the bowl/bag of vapor and head into work.
All I can say is that it makes my otherwise mundane job very enjoyable and i'm about 10 times more productive. I never smoke enough to be knocked on my ass, but I find that a small toke actually helps my work productivity and it gives me something to look forward to before I head into the office.
I'm positive that people suspect, but no one knows for sure. I carry a pouch of Go Number 1 (from the makers of the whizzinator) in my laptop bag incase I get called in for a random drug testing. I never go to work unprepared :thumbsup:
I'm glad I can't smoke before or during work. It's just about the only thing keeping me from smoking all the time.
I believe the answer to this question is the same as the answer to asking "Is it alright to take *any* drug before or during work." (whether that be drinking coffee, drinking (alcohol), taking benadryl, or what have you)
Basically, it is fine as long as you don't get "drunk" or ingest so much of the drug so as to negatively impact your job performance. If I have a beer or two at lunch and go back to work I'm not any less of a productive employee. Three or more and I'd probably start to be not quite as useful as I usually am. Benadryl can knock me out, so I'd want to take only one of those if I had to take one. Whatever drug you ingest during working hours (whether it is coffee, benadryl, cannabis, or what have you), the point is that you should not become so amped up, tired, or inebriated that you cannot perform your job as well as you would sober.
My own preference is to not smoke at work, though of course there is a time and place for every exception. :jointsmile: When I have smoked during work, I have kept it to a minimum in case something important came up.
Disclaimer: I know this is a medical cannabis message board and the mention of other drugs (especially alcohol) is one of the 7 deadly sins... but I'm only mentioning these other things as an example of that which is commonly experienced in our society. Basically, I'm saying treat cannabis as you would any other common drug as far as use in the workplace is concerned.