January 27, 200422 yr Opinions on what you guys would do if a co-worker was obviously drunk at work..?
January 27, 200422 yr Opinions on what you guys would do if a co-worker was obviously drunk at work..? Join him?
January 27, 200422 yr Opinions on what you guys would do if a co-worker was obviously drunk at work..? Did this co-worker drive to work? I'd tell someone, anonymously. You don't want to take the chance that he/she might get someone else hurt.
January 27, 200422 yr Depends on the job, but more than likely report it to the HR person or their boss. If they are working with machinery (like at my fiance's job) that has to be reported immediately or someone could get killed. In an office setting, physical harm would only be if the person started fighting. When I worked at the grocery store during HS/first 2 yrs of college, the boss's daughter showed up drunk. We were supposed to work the desk together but that could have been costly (financially) so I told her to hang out in the office until she was sobered up. I was damned if I was telling the boss his daughter came to work trashed.
January 27, 200422 yr Author It's a sales guy.. he reeks!! I tipped off my boss.. he comes over and asks me "are you sure... " :headshake No.. I'm just going to start a rumor that can potentially get someone fired for no apparent reason. He did drive.. he lives in the city. I think he's still drinking (something in the coffee..). He almost made me sick when he came into my office..
January 27, 200422 yr I hope they do something about it. That's a very dangerous situation for all - in the office and people on the road with him.
January 27, 200422 yr Author I feel kinda sick to my stomach right now.. I had to go over to his office to get something and I feel like I have this "you are drunk!" look on my face..
January 27, 200422 yr I feel kinda sick to my stomach right now.. I had to go over to his office to get something and I feel like I have this "you are drunk!" look on my face.. Why is he still there if you told your boss? They should send him home.
January 27, 200422 yr Why is he still there if you told your boss? They should send him home. They should write him up, send him home and suspend him for a period of time without pay as a minimum, but then again I'm no HR person.
January 27, 200422 yr Why is he still there if you told your boss? They should send him home. send him home? you mean after he's sobered up, right?
January 27, 200422 yr Was he at lunch with a client? Way back in the neanderthal ages of the 1980s and early 1990s a two or three martini lunch with a customer was the norm. Some industries have gone away from that big time. Some customers still cling to it and salepeople have to devide ways to handle it. At one time I had three of the biggest alcoholics as my biggest customers., Lunches on T-W-F were all drinking affairs. In all cases I would pick up a couple cheeseburgers and fries before "lunch". The classis was the guy who went to the same restaurant every day. He had a race with his favorite waitress if she could mix his old fashion and get it to the table before he got to his table. Then she would take my order and when she brought me my drink, she would bring another for him. Then when the food was served, she would slip another fresh drink and ask me if I wanted one. There was no declining so when she brought me one he would have another. That out him 4-2 on me and we're just to the food. As she cleared away the plates another drink would appear and it was time for an "after lunch drink". Same scenario repeated itself. He would have 6 old fashions every day. My other two heavy drinkers had similar plans. They never actually ordered the drinks, their waitresses knew what to do. They never drew attention to themselves by ordering, and they all appeared fairly normal.
January 27, 200422 yr send him home? you mean after he's sobered up, right? With a taxi is usually how it is done, or so I've been told by friends that are in HR work.
January 27, 200422 yr Author Why is he still there if you told your boss? They should send him home. No idea... Should I go over my bosses head? Take it to HR? s***... I'm gonna puke right here on my desk. I am so unbelieveably uncomfortable right now.
January 27, 200422 yr Author Was he at lunch with a client? It's only 11:50 here Tex.. and this was about an hour ago that he came to my office and I noticed it.
January 27, 200422 yr Whtdda mean im drunk....you shut up...you can't talk tome like that on this website... im soory...i love you...youre my best friend.... Im tired Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
January 27, 200422 yr Seriously though, that is an extreme problem. Does your work offer an abuse program to help him?
January 27, 200422 yr Author Whtdda mean im drunk....you shut up...you can't talk tome like that on this website... im soory...i love you...youre my best friend.... Im tired Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz ROTFLMAO!!!
January 27, 200422 yr Author Seriously though, that is an extreme problem. Does your work offer an abuse program to help him? Yea.. I think I read it in the handbook. I'm gonna go tell HR. As with everything else around here... I don't think my boss did anything about it. Ugh.. I swear I feel like I am going to throw up!
January 27, 200422 yr Is this the same HR department that banned capris? No Capris? How would I get to work in the summer? (Brian has a Mercury Capri that he pulled out of storage that will be driven after the brakes are done - have the parts now we need some decent weather to do them.)
January 27, 200422 yr Author Is this the same HR department that banned capris? Yea.. MF'ers!! I can't believe you remember that Tex..
January 27, 200422 yr the only person that would hate capris are girls with huge butts (cos they don't look good in them) and well....guys that hate big butts? honestly, there's NOTHING wrong with capris.. they're so CUTE on miss sox4life... lol...that was my one a day reference to her.
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