I’m bored at work today. Usually I would drink in this situation. It got me thinking about all the times I was wasted at work, let’s hear your stories!
Here’s 2 of mine:
I’d been taking shots all day from the plastic vodka bottle I hid inside the toilet tank. At the end of the day we had a staff meeting (I run a small company + farm and we make herbal products)…anyway I’m the boss and called this meeting but by the time it comes I’m absolutely shitfaced. I can barely talk. I feel puke coming up my throat and try to swallow it but instead it comes out my nose. In front of my whole staff.
They really respected me after that day.
another time after I’d been on a 3 day bender I was too drunk to get home so I just kept drinking in my office, then I crawled into a gigantic industrial sized box of packing peanuts and passed out, I guess because in my wasted mind it was the softest spot. My employee found me in the morning. I tried to make up some story but of course she knew the truth.
It’s funny now, but still hurts my heart a bit to recount these events.
I know your situation. I was drunk and I was still drinking at work. My boss called police and then I puked on officer shoes. Embarrassing feeling but I know it.
@Dogboi would you say these were your worst experiences at work? For a second my screwed up brain jumped up and said ‘look at this, you’re not this bad, so maybe carry on drinking’. I had to remind myself why I’m doing this, i didnt wait to quit smoking until I developed some sort of lung disease so i should approach my alcohol sobriety with the same outlook. Im glad you can reflect on your past experineces and learm from them.
Definitely not my worst, just 2 experiences I’m comfortable laughing about now.
Even if it was my worst I still don’t think it’s acceptable behavior, or a reason to carry on until it got “worse”. I almost lost my business because of constant behavior like this. I would’ve put everyone who works for me out of a job as well.
I drank from the morning, to the night. It didn’t matter if I was at work, I was driving, or if I was sleeping. My Booze bill was $100 a day. I didn’t think no one knew. I had 3 DUIs in 30 years. I say thank God they were 10 years apart, but it should be thank God nobody was killed. I didn’t care who was around my boss, what the hell I was the boss. I start snorted cocaine on the job. I thought I was hiding it. We all think we’re sneaky. We think we’re hiding it. We. Are hiding it from his ourselves! We are the blind ones! we’re the ones with blinders on! Everybody else can see straight through us! That’s the funny part! We are sad victims of our self the evil addiction that we lead ourselves through!!!
Well when my drinking first started getting bad i was still a bartender I managed to lose that job on my day off !! I went there to have drinks with a few friends and ended up getting into a physical fight with my manager all I remember was alot of yelling and glass being thrown
Reading this took me back to so many bad memories.. So many things that happened two years ago but i’m still ashamed of.. I think about the times i couldn’t stand on my feet, trying to get to my home door. Once i even failed throght the stairs and who saw me didn’t say anything. I think about the days laying in my bed puking for hours.. Waiting to feel better so i could start again. And i’m still afraid of talking about this. You people are so strong, i take you as an example. And thanks for sharing..
My stories make me cringe, but sharing them and “airing my dirty laundry” makes the bad feelings feel less weighted.
I’m still friends with the employees I nose puked in front of, somehow. One day we’ll all laugh together about it I hope as it becomes past, not present history.
Hey @Dogboi. When I read your post, I got a gut reaction - it’s so hard to “go there” all the drinking before, during, and after work.
Your stories are bad, but oddly I like the sound of sleeping in a box of foam packing peanuts - must be comfy!!
My MO was to head to bars at lunch, but if I got really bad, just never came back to the office and called or emailed with some lame excuse. Like a Dr. appointment ran over, family “issue”, etc. I had a whole system of keeping my coat on another floor of the building so I could sneak in and out hours at a time without people noticing. But what people did notice, was shitty performance in the long run, and I’m sure some knew I was drinking. I was quietly replaced eventually.
Towards the end of my second job, I kept a water bottle or soda cup with vodka in my bag and would literally drink it at my desk in a cubicle.
I remember showing up to a critical meeting with a few managing directors there, and just being blasted and trying to hide it. What happened? I can’t even recall.
I’m still unemployed now, but finding and keeping a decent job I think are my final two big challenges to sobriety. I’m pretty strong with the rest of it at this point.
I was refused entry to a plane I was booked on for a business trip because I was drunk, it was 6:30am and I excused myself by saying I was drunk from the night before but the truth is I hadn’t even been to bed. I’d like to say the shame of that stopped me drinking but no, it was at least another 8 months and it that time it got worse as my wife and kids had moved out. Today I’m 168 days sober and I am taking my wife to lunch, we recently returned from a family holiday and things are really looking up. I pray every day they’ll return home but we will see, either way my life is a million times better than it was when drinking.
I really never drank consistently at work, but more of a binge type thing. I went almost three years without doing it and did it several times last year. I was never wasted, but my performance, attitude, and constructiveness suffered. My boss mentioned something a few times. I’m really ashamed that I ever drank on the job, it revolts me now, those days are done.
Thanks for sharing, the bars at lunch is something I did too. I have to travel around our county a lot for meetings, sometimes outside of our county (which was even better). I’d almost always get drinks with my meal, sometimes I’d skip the meal. If I got too drunk, I’d just call in for the rest of the day and spend it at the bar. This was ideal when I wasn’t in our city, because I didn’t want anyone I knew to see me.
That was probably my biggest fear, a coworker having lunch at the same place and seeing me drink. Never happened, and no one at work knew thank god.
I managed to lose that job on my day off !! I went there to have drinks with a few friends and ended up getting into a physical fight with my manager all I remember was alot of yelling and glass being thrown
