it's called a high-functioning alcoholic and it's not based
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Getting fucked up before going to work? Hell yeah. Shaking and sweating by noon? Not so fun.
Yeah, usually by the time you're in the morning drinking (and not on vacation or something lol).
You're also in the physical withdrawal symptoms, which can kill people or fuck up their brains
I mean, more than a few drinks a week will fuck up your brain.
~~more than a few drinks a week~~
More than 0. There is no save amount of alcohol. But almost nothing we do is save. Go outside in the sun? Cancer! Eat fat/sugar? Heart/Liver failure! Stress from work and doomscrolling? Depression and anxiety!
Choose your poison, but know it is poisonous! Cheers 🍻
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Yeah, I lived like this for maybe thirty years, in between being a junkie. Gave up pretty much all my indulgences the past couple of years because I'm just too old for that shit and the health debt is coming due. I still smoke weed and take the occasional valium. My addictions saw me through a lot of rough patches, and being mostly sober is hard work - but booze and drugs is not a great way to deal with your problems.
Edit - closer to forty years actually. Oops.
It's far more rampant than even the experts recognize. Hiding alcohol use is simple.
Wake and bake and chronic thc has also been rampant for decades.
yep. needing 4 drinks to get right, that sounds quite severe too. even needing 1 is a massive red flag. when the body shakes the morning after drinking, it can be a sign that your body is no longer able to function without alcohol.
detox will need to be medically managed at that point as cold turkey is now life threatening; quitting drinking will seem impossible and yet has now become more urgent than ever
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School bus driver?
When I was younger and worked at a grocery store, I had a coworker confide in me that they stop home on their breaks for a shot of vodka. At the time I saw it as "whatever you have to do to survive!" But now I see it as the massive red flag that it is that she's a functioning alcoholic.
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“Thank God you’re back, Doctor. ER received a patient with blunt chest trauma, he’s unresponsive and vitals are unstable. The imaging shows organ damage, possibly lung hemorrhage. They’re being prepped for emergency surgery now, the anesthesiologist will brief you in Room E109.”
Q: What do you call a doctor who is three sheets to the wind by mid-afternoon?
A: Doctor.
Buddy of mine worked in health care, did urine testing. He's got stories about people coming in way over the legal limit to drive but come across as sober
Investment banker during tariff season.
Have you ever fucked an alcoholic up the ass?
That shit kind of burns when they haven’t had a solid shit for a month.
Have you ever fucked an alcoholic up the ass?
No
That shit kind of burns when they haven’t had a solid shit for a month.
Ok
Don't do unprotected anal, kids.
But unprotected anal is just the bee’s knees.
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Sounds like me with my $20 when I'm on jury duty
Explain to a fellow European why jury duty is so universally hated in the United States of America. I always pictured it as an exciting opportunity with a certain responsibility.
As mentioned by another, a lot of it really is compensation. Most jobs won't pay your missed days for jury service. They can't fire you, no, but they also dont have to pay you. If you have kids, live paycheck to paycheck, then get a letter from the government saying you will be needed for an unspecified amount of days, possibly weeks, and won't get paid for it, it doesn't seem like much of an opportunity. Better have those sick days saved up, cause if not, you may not make rent.
Luclily they usually pull a large pool of people so that is sometimes not an issue. My last jury summons, I told the judge that I wasn't paid for being there and the loss of income would cause me financial hardship. "Thank you sir, you're excused."
Employers respect jury service only as far as the law requires them to. They do not respect it enough to make service economically viable for their employees.
You have to take time off from work and you are not usually compensated well enough for the inconvenience.
Well, it is never a convenient time. You wind up missing a day of work and they give ( at least in my state) the potential juror $20 for your trouble. I never get picked and have a hard time staying awake throughout the day.
There is definitely a great responsibility involved and I answer the questioning truthfully so I have never get selected by both the prosecution and the defense.
The reasons the others gave are valid, but it’s also a cultural thing. We’re taught via pop culture that getting a jury duty summons, much like having to go to the DMV, is something to be dreaded. Like if it happens in a cartoon or a cheesy sitcom, there might be scary music that plays in the background while the character does a Darth Vader “noooooo.”
Hope they didn't ticket the school bus
I'm a school bus driver. Last year our union shop steward got pulled over for DUI and blew a .32 which is insane. She was stopped at 3 AM and cited but somehow was at work that same morning at 6:30 AM and drove her normal route. The district found out about her DUI later in the day and she was suspended, but it's clear that she was still horribly fucked up when driving kids.
After more than a week she was allowed to resign rather than being fired, which means she was able to get a job driving for a different district. How she was able to do this with a DUI on her record is a mystery to us, too. She is also a councilwoman in a neighboring town but it's hard to imagine that level of politics gives you immunity from DUI. She did apparently flash her councilwoman ID to the officer that stopped her but that did her no good, at least at the time.
How is being a school bus driver? I lost my job recently and I've been struggling to land another thanks to the current job market. There's a part of me that's hedging and looking at what else I might be able to do for work if I can't land another IT role quickly enough
I absolutely love it, although the best description of the job that I've read is that it combines the jobs of truck driver and zoo keeper (not completely accurate - zoo keepers have bars and thick glass protecting them from the animals). The obvious downside is that it's a major pay hit coming from the programming world like I did. I now make about 1/6 of what I did at my last job. My district pays pretty well (over $30 an hour) and provides health care, but most districts pay less with no benefits so it depends on where you are. I work less than five hours a day and I have enough time between my morning and afternoon routes to go for a bike ride and have lunch and a nap, and I'm able to take my elderly parents to their appointments and such. It really doesn't feel like work and it's a good feeling to know what I'm doing is actually of some benefit to humanity - unlike programming, where I think that 95% of what I did never got used by anybody.
It seems like the IT career world is utterly and hopelessly doomed by AI. My fear is that shit is eventually going to take over driving jobs as well, although I think school bus driving will last a bit longer than other things (hopefully it lasts until I'm dead).
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This is fairly common in the bar/restaurant industry.
Musicians, comedians. Any job where you have to be socially / performatively "on".
Watch old Robin Williams stand-up. He actually goes back stage mid-show to do rails of coke.
I think a lot of politicians also do it.
No, they're usually on a strict diet of paint thinner
A Gigastacy in the wild
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