This is a perfect description of every school staffroom I ever entered.
The smokers room always had the best banter while the non-smoking staffroom was full of sad looking 'individuals' chewing on some dry excuse of 'veggie' food.
The funniest part was when they banned smoking in schools.
We would all traipse out to the back of the toilets or bike sheds and turf out the smoking kids so we could have a puff!
Happy days lol
I've been to a few teacher training days just like this too.
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