• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    And this is why the rule says “no fire, cigarette, lighters, etc etc or things resembling them”.

    If you have a second person running at you, the third is going to kick you off the site.

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    All seems funny as long as it works right, but it contains a lithium battery and would still get his ass fired in a heartbeat. Oil refineries don’t fuck around.

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      Friend had a fake cigarette some 25+ years ago and it had orange crumbled foil at the end which looked like it’s glowing under light. No batteries.

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        Yeah, we had one as a prop in the 90s that had orange foil inside and a mesh in front, so when it moved around the fire looked alive.

        And you’d load it with flour and blow through it to make a pretty convincing puff of smoke.

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        Okay. I once had a real e-vape that looks like a real cigarette. Given that the post appears to be something of a product review, I’m mostly inclined to think it’s a vape.

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            I don’t see any Amazon logo to confirm nor deny if that’s where it came from. I admit though that I don’t do any shopping from Amazon, so I dunno.

            Guess I might take your word on it, with a grain of salt though. I have no clue if it might have come from eBay or any of the other online companies… 🤷‍♂️

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      It might not, I remember having imitation “stage” cigarettes a while ago and they just had powder inside a tube and still looked semi believable from more than a few feet away

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        I know the policies that Chevron has. You cannot enter the premises with even so much as a phone. Lithium batteries can and do explode. Vape cigarettes are no exception.

        If someone wants to consume nicotine on the premises, they have to use chewing tobacco or dip.

        No exceptions, period.

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          They’re saying some fake cigarettes don’t have batteries at all. Someone below mentions one with orange foil at the end to make it look like it’s glowing.

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            I get that, yes. I also wouldn’t bother buying such a thing at all, let alone leave a product review. A kindergartener could make a fake paper cigarette from construction paper and random foil from the dollar store.

            The fact that the guy left a product review at all from an online purchase leads me to think it’s an actual vape. Or just a troll post, who knows?

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                Have you ever heard of OSHA?

                Have you ever heard of pulling a prank at work that causes panic? Yeah, Chevron would still fire someone even over a totally fake paper cigarette, just for causing panic.

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      1. They’re just paper, they do not contain a lithium battery.

      2. You are aware that fuckin everything has a battery now, right? Including the vast majority of non-corded tools available on a refinery?

      Edit: Derp. My brain misfired and collapsed ‘refinery’ and ‘off shore drilling platform’ into the same thing in a catastrophic level of idiocy.