I work in an open floor plan office and the coworker mentioned sits right behind me. Everyday he comes in and vapes so much that the air is slightly foggy. I don’t know much about vapes so besides for any potential health risks I may not know about from the second hand smoke, the smell of it is nauseating. Thing is though, I can’t go to HR about it because he’s the HR director. I can’t ask to switch desks because there are no available ones and if I go to the higher ups it’s pretty obvious it’s coming from me since we sit closest to each other.
I haven’t tried asking him to stop because he gets very defensive about how it’s not bad and he needs it. I also would have no idea how to bring it up.
Any ideas I haven’t thought of would be much appreciated.