Ever been drunk or on drugs while at work? Me never. Though I did

[applegrove]

get drunk with the senior girls basketball team during a tournament and we tried to play a game. It was hilarious. Been hung over at the workplace maybe a dozen times. But I'm too much of a girl scout to ever so disrespect a workplace.

[Taverner]

1. SWIM (Someone Who Isn't Me) was a few times

SWIM was happy at one job, paranoid beyond belief at another, and properly cautious at another.

[cliffordu]

2. Just once.

Lasted about 15 years, nonstop.

[kentauros]

3. Does Benadryl count?

I've had "allergy days" where I had to take it to "function". Sneezing makes it difficult to use a keyboard and mouse, but nodding off is easier to hide

[ZombieHorde]

4. Yes. nt

[NightWatcher]

5. I worked at several restaurants...so yes

I worked at a nice Italian restaurant in a swanky neighborhood and we used to all be stoned. I was a souz chef and prep chef and used to drink and smoke the ganja in the kitchen (those high powered vent fan hoods will suck the smoke right out). The waitresses dropped acid while working (small amounts) and the delivery guy sold weed throughout the island while he was delivering pizza and dinners.

I worked at an indie record (cd) store, so yes on that count too

[sir pball]

17. Second that.

In my past life as a lab drone at a National Lab, absolutely not no way no how; beyond being a ridiculous danger (Class IV lasers are not toys, despite the way we handled them) it would be disrespectful to the place and the job as was mentioned above - it's just something you don't do.

Now that I've changed horses and am a shady fly-by-night Tony Bourdain-style NYC line cook it's almost disrespectful to NOT start pouring it back on the clock. My place we generally wait until the tail end of service, just enjoy ourselves during breakdown, but I know a place where all three line cooks (doing 4-600 a night!) have Fiji bottles full of white liquor waiting on their stations when they get to work. It's just the nature of the beast.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

19. I used the vents where I worked

for the same reason! Absolutely safe to get stoned with no trace of odor surviving.............

[Auggie]

6. The advertising business was the poster child for heavy drinking ...

and well into the 1980s, I might add. There were certain co-workers you made sure you dealt with before lunch, because after they'd be worthless. In my early twenties I got sucked into that, but stopped when I got promoted.

[applegrove]

7. Yeah. I've been watching mad men and they drank all day. But it was

just the advertising industry. I asked my dad if he drank during the day in the 1960s in his office and he said sometimes he'd have at most one drink when out at lunch. But never, ever in the workplace.

[Auggie]

30. I knew an account exec who started with a little whiskey in his coffee every morning ...

by mid-morning he would switch to red wine. Then came the business lunch. He'd be so wasted by 1:30-2:00 that sometimes the client would have to call the principals to pick him up where they were dining.

[ellisonz]

8. Oh hell yeah!

[cyberswede]

9. Only by accident...when I woke up still drunk from the night before...

or never went to bed. Ahh...college days...good times.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. On the last day before the Christmas break ...

... it was a custom to wander into the Sales department with a cup of coffee. The Sales people were always happy to add a little something (Irish Whisky?) to the coffee. Not much work got done that day.

This stopped sometime in the early '90's.

Things are way more "correct" now.

[lunatica]

11. Never

But that doesn't mean I've never had drinks at work. When my department has parties and receptions wine is served.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Well, did you win the basketball game?

[applegrove]

15. No. We lost terribly. Our coach was laughing at us. It was pathetic. We could

no aim the ball properly at the basket.

[JesterCS]

13. I worked for Wells Fargo

processing mortgages, and was usually high as a kite after my lunch break, but I was still able to have 0 errors in my work

[riderinthestorm]

14. Nope. Never, although its very common for a lot of folks in my profession.

I just say and do too many stupid things when I've had a drink or two. Besides alcohol and MJ are like taking a sleeping pill for me - I only have a limited time to stay awake after I start (in the case of MJ, it was only a matter of minutes - not hours before I'd be asleep!)

To be honest, I'm not even too thrilled to have a drink when I go out with friends - I just know I'll be embarrassing.

Is it weird that I most like to have a drink at the end of the day, when everything's done and the house is quiet? I love sitting with a glass of wine and a book.

[Denninmi]

16. I don't drink or do drugs

But I was prescribed an anti-seizure medicine 2 weeks ago for restless leg syndrome and it has thrown me for a loop. Extremely dizzy, wobbly on my feet, kind of foggy. My neurologist told me this could happen, it's just temporary. I went through with my session with my trainer at the gym the other night, at first I think he wondered if I were drunk, so I told him about the meds. Then he took mercy on me and we did easier sit down stuff.

[applegrove]

22. Yeah. I've been on prescription type drugs at many jobs. I meant illegal drugs.

[Mel Content]

28. me too.

just not my prescriptions.

[Denninmi]

29. I know.

I just thought I would share this little anecdote.

[MrSlayer]

18. A construction site on acid is an interesting place.

What with all the sparks from the welders and grinders and stud saws and whatnot.

Drinking on the job was standard back in the day as well. My job as a first year apprentice was getting together the two o'clock beer break.

It was a fun business back then.

[Ahpook]

20. Once

But the booze was supplied by the manager since we all had to pull an all night inventory jam.

Needless to say the counts were fucked up

[NoPasaran]

21. I always figured

If you can't handle a routine day at work with a good buzz on you may be overachieving.

[nomorenomore08]

23. Drunk? No. High on weed? Absolutely!

Back in my college days I thought nothing of going to work (at the dining hall) or class stoned out of my gourd. Let's just say those were more innocent times, for me personally...

[TrogL]

24. I used to own a wine business

At the end of a long night of tasting id be pretty looped especially if we were doing fortified wines.

[kwassa]

25. It used to be more acceptable than it is now.

in the old version of the insurance biz, body shops would maintain tables at certain restaurants, and the adjuster could just drop in and have a free lunch and drinks. Talk about conflict of interest.

It took not very long of me doing that to realize how depressed I was by my job.

[Mel Content]

26. i started working when i was 15...i started smoking pot at 17.

since then i've ALWAYS been 'on drugs' while at work. I've even done drugs AT work.

[klook]

27. Working under the influence could lead to saying what's really on my mind

and that could have disastrous consequences.

[Broken_Hero]

31. Hmm, depends

I never took a drug/drink while on the job, but I have come in with a hangover, and/or coming down off harder drugs(the most interesting, coming down off of LSD on Easter Sunday many moons ago).