Food is the New Smoking
The Boston Globe’s Maura Welch said it: “Food is the new smoking.” Cheryl and I were half-joking the other day that we should start smoking. I could easily avoid the random donut or after-dinner munching on pretzels by replacing them with cigarettes. It would be good for my career, too: the COO of my company smokes and it would be good networking to shiver together outside the front door.
Sorry for the late comment, but I can’t resist. My boss’s boss smokes, and most of my colleagues can not stand to be around him when he smokes. I smoked for about a year in college, my best friends in college and afterwards all smoked heavily (until they had kids and all quit) so it doesn’t really bother me much. So I get excellent face time and a ton of work done with him by hanging out with him while he gets his fix. Nothing beats getting all the office politics and gossip straight from the top.
Comment by Charlie — January 6, 2007 @ 11:48 pm