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School bus driver?
Investment banker during tariff season.
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.
red flag? nah that’s a bright green flag.
“I love trying to get in the pants of addicts!”
Christ you seem like a slimy dude.
Who said anything about trying to get in their pants? Why is this suddenly about taking sexual advantage of an addict?
They are literally saying that someone getting drunk in the middle of the day is a “bright green flag”
A green flag for what?
fren
Nothing green about alcoholism. I enjoy my beer, gin and occasionall hangover but alcohol addiction is nothing to celebrate
A single shot seems more like a habit than functional alcoholism
Drinking alcohol habitually is called alcoholism. Any time the consumption of alcohol is a fixed part of your day, you are already over the line. A beer with every dinner? Shots with friends/coworkers after work every day? That’s alcoholism.
Yep. That’s a difficult nuance for people to grasp. Alcoholism isn’t really about the amount, it’s about your relationship to its use.
If you drink 7 beers on a random friday night, but nothing the rest of the week, you’re probably fine. But if you drink a beer with your breakfast so you can face the day, that’s clearly not a good place to be. Same amount of alcohol, but a different relationship to its use.
Basically, anytime you feel like you ‘need a drink to do X’ with any regularity, it’s time to talk to your doctor about alcohol use.
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
Aha yes, Teaching.
Any more that that and the TV trolley is coming out.
I was about to say I’ve encountered a few individuals during school consults. Elementary even.
The only way to deal with a classroom full of antichrists
Unrelated video, but thank you for sharing!
I’m not accusing anybody involved at Wacker or the contractors of being drunk, but if turning a bolt wrong kills one and injures four then you can imagine drinking at work is not exactly a great idea.
It’s just as dangerous on foot as it is for drivers, even grocery clerks can get crushed under pallets of boxes weighing hundreds of lbs minimum, there should be no tolerance for it.
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.
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.”
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.
it’s called a high-functioning alcoholic and it’s not based
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.
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
Not even close. 4 drink base-line does not need to be medically managed. Two day sweat out and you’re reset. You could even have 2 beers the second night and still reset to 0 within the two days.
You don’t hit medically managed territory till your at a bottle or liquor everyday for more than a few days territory.
Excuse me, NO, this is deadly medical misinfo. Detox is individualized, first and foremost. We don’t know what an individual patient is going to experience when they detox or what complications they could have.
Furthermore, we have no idea what this person is drinking in a day. All we know is that they’re having two to four times the alcohol than the average person drinks when they get sent to detox while drinking in the mornings before their appts with me. 4 just to get to baseline is indicative of severe use disorder, though we cant tell without more info.
You have to remember, someone drinking four drinks in the middle of work is easily drinking “a bottle” a day as-is. Work is when they tone it DOWN.
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
If you don’t mind me asking, by that stage do you drink to get drunk or just to feel ‘normal’/not sick?
I mean, more than a few drinks a week will fuck up your brain.
more than a few drinks a weekMore 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 🍻
For sure, but in the context of “fucking up your brain” I’m talking about the line where you move from “increasing your risk of certain problems” to “actively developing lesions in your brain”.
What constitutes “more than a few” here?
About 1 a day – if you’re going over that, you’d be considered a “heavy drinker”
But even that much is still “bad” for you, just not as bad.
My wife worries about my drinking. I might have 18 cans of beer in a year if I’m really going crazy.
The other comment is a pretty good baseline (1 a day), but there is some nuance to it. Gender/body size/age, etc all play a role. And it matters if youre literally doing 1 a day or averaging 1 a day. Having 7 drinks every saturday is not the same and have 1 drink with dinner every day.
The best answer is, consult your medical professional
And even then, if you’re having 1 a day, you are right up at the edge of being a “heavy drinker”.
New recommendations are something like 2 per week max.
Lol. You’re right. I’ll try to be more careful
It’s just good advice
Relevant username I guess
Pff, thats just hypoglycaemia. I need a cookie… or I’m gonna collapse.
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.That describes me and I will never drink before or during work.
yeah there’s lots of criteria
It’s based as hell dude
Based in reality, yes. Based as in the common colloquialism to mean something cool and relatable, no.
It’s very relatable though
Cool? No. Relatable? Unfortunately yes for many.
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
“You try doing this job sober!”
– Fred Dibnah, steeplejack.
That guy was awesome.
That little brunette can grab my yoke any day
What the fuck
Horny lemmy is at it again!
“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.”
“Hold my beer.”
*cheese fries
“Does anyone mind if I eat these well I work?”
Scalpel…
Suction…
Fry…
“As long as you maintain sterile field, I don’t see any problem with it. Someone grab an extra scrub-tech to feed this doctor their cheese fries! They got a life to save!”
Q: What do you call a doctor who is three sheets to the wind by mid-afternoon?
A: Doctor.
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.
Don’t do bees in their knees either, kids
But unprotected bees in their knees is the cat’s pajamas.
You gotta eat their ass first, that was where you went wrong. Get that tongue in there and clean up before the fucking ensues.
ok.
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).
I just became a city bus driver a few months ago. It’s not the most exciting job there ever was. I’m in a smaller Midwestern city, so we don’t deal with nearly the amount of bs (violent drug addicts and or mentally ill people) that bigger metro areas get. The pay is decent, not great but enough. The benefits are top notch though. Good pension, best health plan I’ve ever had.
Sounds like Wisconsin
Like a public sector job in Wisconsin would have a union (and isn’t police).
Our union is the Teamsters and when I was taking my school bus training class I joked to the guy next to me that I was concerned I was going to start getting calls to go down to the docks and break somebody’s kneecaps. This guy, dead serious, said “I’d like that”.
Philly suburb.
at least she was able to get a job with (hopefully) a felony
A Gigastacy in the wild
