Work as a waiter
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I mean, more than a few drinks a week will fuck up your brain.
What constitutes "more than a few" here?
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Sounds like me with my $20 when I'm on jury duty
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
at least she was able to get a job with (hopefully) a felony
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]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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Sounds like Wisconsin
Philly suburb.
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red flag? nah that's a bright green flag.
Nothing green about alcoholism. I enjoy my beer, gin and occasionall hangover but alcohol addiction is nothing to celebrate
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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".
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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
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it's called a high-functioning alcoholic and it's not based
It's based as hell dude
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It's based as hell dude
Based in reality, yes. Based as in the common colloquialism to mean something cool and relatable, no.
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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.
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"Does anyone mind if I eat these well I work?"
Scalpel...
Suction...
Fry...
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Aha yes, Teaching.
The only way to deal with a classroom full of antichrists
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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.
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That little brunette can grab my yoke any day
What the fuck
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This is fairly common in the bar/restaurant industry.
