[Phang]

Originally Posted by Ste

Smoking rooms are absolutely disgusting.

In the Home Office there used to be one on every few floors in one building. These rooms have to have really special air conditioning to remove all the smoke from the air - this also requires shitloads of maintenance as they get clogged with tar rather quickly. The Air Con system has to be on a seperate system to everywhere else so the smell doesn't spread throughout the building.
Unfortunately in this particular building the room was near the lift shaft which meant that the lift always stank of smoke. On top of that whenever you came up the stairs you knew exactly which floor the smoking room was on, every time the door opened the smell went round the whole floor.
I can't imagine having to work in a place that smelled that bad

Also, the state of the room was horrible. The yellow stains everywhere, all the furniture, carpet and ceiling tiles all needed chucking out as they was sticky with tar and stained yellow, the windows were streaky and the air was heavy months after the room had been closed.


Also, anyone going into a smoking room for a fag and then coming back into the office just stank even worse than normal due to the dirty air - you might not be able to smell it but it's disgusting to all non-smokers.

yeah, but the lift smelling horrible isnt actually killing you is it.