"You shouldn't be smoking at all!"
This happened just yesterday during the football rush.
Normally, I work mostly nights at my establishment. But, this is one of the Sundays I work especially when they're training a new hire, I'm one of the girls they let the new hire shadow and train them.
It's during one of the short lulls we have between game times when the FOH manager tells one of the new hires and I to go on break. I go out back with the new hire and there is a couple of people from BOH out there as well. I'm a smoker along with the three others I'm standing near the back door to the kitchen with. We light up and in a little less than the 15 minutes we're out there, we each smoke 2 cigarettes (there's one girl I work with that can smoke two and a half to three cigarettes but don't know how she does it). During my first cigarette, I see this old couple walk up to the restaurant from the back parking where the employees usually park. They look at us with a scowl on their faces. I don't think much of it. When our 15 minutes are up, I walk back in. And who do I see in my section...Mr and Mrs <PERSON>. I walk up with a smile...
Me: Hello, thank you for coming to [business] this afternoon. 201
My name is u/rylielovessoftball and this is my trainee [redacted] and we'll be your servers this afternoon. Is there anything I can get you to drink while you decide on what ya'll'd like to order?
Scowl 1: I'd like to talk to your manager.
Me: I'm sorry, the general manager is unavailable at this time. Is there a problem that I can fix?
Scowl 1: Yeah, you and your trainee reek like smoke. You should be ashamed of yourselves for smoking. I want to talk to your supervisor then.
Scowl 2: Yeah, and your smoking is why your bald and a freak.
Me: Well, I'm sorry you feel this way. Let me get the FOH manager and you can talk to them.
I walk off and get the FOH manager. I tell them of the situation while we're walking to the table. The two scowlers tell the manager of the people out back smoking and how their filthy habit should be made illegal and they're condoning us killing ourselves by allowing us to smoke out back. The manager apologizes and tells them that they aren't responsible for what the employees legally do on their break. And ask them to leave if they're going to be rowdy about it.
They eventually order and eat. My tip...a pack of nicotine patches they dropped off at the hostess stand and a note saying they wish I'd quit my filthy smoking. 828