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Both highly amused and highly annoyed.
13 years ago
And by the same thing no less. Let me explain:
I smoke cigars. This is not news. In Kuwait, smokers are the rule, not the exception. Everyone smokes, pretty much wherever they want to. Restaurants still have smoking sections. They tried actually to outlaw them just recently and everyone pretty much ignored the rules until they went away. The only thing they've managed, (barely) to make non-smoking since I've been here in the last two years is the airport, and even then you'll quite often see some dude in a white nightshirt wandering around with a fag hanging from his slack lips.
ANYWAY, corporate policy when I arrived essentially specified that in company provided housing it was up to the building manager to determine smoking policy in their apartments, so of course if all parties agreed, smoke up.
So I do, or rather, so I did. I managed to avoid SIX, count 'em, roommates by smoking cigars. This is not a problem, rather a benefit associated with smoking. Unless you're hard up for cash, I don't know ANYONE who would RATHER have a roommate, particularly the kind that get randomly assigned.
My Project Manager got wind.... >.< of this just recently and actually came by my apartment to 'see' for himself. Now I keep a clean place, and he couldn't gainsay that, but it smells like cigar smoke. He told me it wasn't allowed, I said it was and had the documentation to prove it.
...
So he changed the documentation and emailed the new document out project wide.
The cute little empty corporate suit changed the rules to deprive me of one of the few joys I have left in this desolate wasteland of a country so he could cram someone into the spare bedroom of my apartment.
*sighs*
Ah well. Five months and change to go.
I smoke cigars. This is not news. In Kuwait, smokers are the rule, not the exception. Everyone smokes, pretty much wherever they want to. Restaurants still have smoking sections. They tried actually to outlaw them just recently and everyone pretty much ignored the rules until they went away. The only thing they've managed, (barely) to make non-smoking since I've been here in the last two years is the airport, and even then you'll quite often see some dude in a white nightshirt wandering around with a fag hanging from his slack lips.
ANYWAY, corporate policy when I arrived essentially specified that in company provided housing it was up to the building manager to determine smoking policy in their apartments, so of course if all parties agreed, smoke up.
So I do, or rather, so I did. I managed to avoid SIX, count 'em, roommates by smoking cigars. This is not a problem, rather a benefit associated with smoking. Unless you're hard up for cash, I don't know ANYONE who would RATHER have a roommate, particularly the kind that get randomly assigned.
My Project Manager got wind.... >.< of this just recently and actually came by my apartment to 'see' for himself. Now I keep a clean place, and he couldn't gainsay that, but it smells like cigar smoke. He told me it wasn't allowed, I said it was and had the documentation to prove it.
...
So he changed the documentation and emailed the new document out project wide.
The cute little empty corporate suit changed the rules to deprive me of one of the few joys I have left in this desolate wasteland of a country so he could cram someone into the spare bedroom of my apartment.
*sighs*
Ah well. Five months and change to go.
Hang in there buddy
I'm just tired of this place.