Functioning drunks

[The Great Perhaps]

Alistair Campbell is presenting a programme on BBC later tonight about hidden alcoholics, he was interviewed on breakfast TV earlier and he was quite candid about his problems.
Surely we've all done it, I've been at meetings ratarsed and no fucker's realised it (and often come away with a canny deal )

[Pebbles]

There's a hell of a difference between bluffing through an afternoon at work after a boozy lunch to needing a bottle of vodka in your drawer just to get through the day.

I once replaced someone who left in a hurry after making a mistake at work. When they cleared out his desk there were about six water bottles full of vodka and no one else in the office had a clue he was drinking through the day.

[The Great Perhaps]

I often compensated with amphetamine, once met a delegation from ACAS right off me fucking nut but I got the result we needed.

[kingmonkey]

I thinks it's very common. I meet loads of customers who always stink of drink, regardless of the time of day.

[anewloginapparently]

Originally Posted by The Great Perhaps

I often compensated with amphetamine, once met a delegation from ACAS right off me fucking nut but I got the result we needed.

The amount of times in the past that when working away I'd be out on the piss (& more) til the early hours then try to bluff my way through a working day without falling asleep, pretty scary thinking back. Couldn't do it these days (nor would want to).

[Big Sharp Teeth]

Originally Posted by kingmonkey

I thinks it's very common. I meet loads of customers who always stink of drink, regardless of the time of day.

Do you work in Weatherspoons?

[kingmonkey]

Originally Posted by Big Sharp Teeth

Do you work in Weatherspoons?

[Pepe]

Is there anything that Campbell has not had/got? He will be claiming ownership rights on Bird Flu soon enough.

[The Great Perhaps]

Originally Posted by anewloginapparently

The amount of times in the past that when working away I'd be out on the piss (& more) til the early hours then try to bluff my way through a working day without falling asleep, pretty scary thinking back. Couldn't do it these days (nor would want to).

I used to do it while at work marra, one time I'd been at Ruperts on Ocean Road , then gone back to the Park Hotel when it closed and stayed on the drink til 8 o clock in the morning when I had to go to work.
I drove to the Team valley went to the bog, had a couple of lines and straight into a meeting with ACAS.
After the meeting I went to the Wagon Team for a pint then back to work.

[Medulla]

Originally Posted by Pepe

Is there anything that Campbell has not had/got? He will be claiming ownership rights on Bird Flu soon enough.

Depression and problems with booze are usually completely uncorrelated like.