I’ve definitely had this moment. At least a couple of times and it’s a great relief from any sort of guilt. I’m being responsible by telling you no. Not that I should need to feel guilty for my employer’s shortfall, but it’s still freeing.
Yes, at 10am. I’m always on my 3rd scotch when work calls.
I’m a line cook so they just tell me they have a couple bumps ready to straighten me up.
I’m in a similar field and I’m pretty sure if I told them I was drunk they’d tell me “yeah me too, now come in to work”.
i’m a musician so it’s less “i’m drinking” and it’s more “i’m high” and they reply “yeah i know i’ll pick you up and bring a gram”. hard to hate your job with coworkers like that
As a friends dad says:
“Can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning!”
‘I saw I got a message from you and took a double shot before I opened it, just to be safe.’
goddamn right I ain’t on call. entitled assholes
“I’m night shift. What you should be worried about is if I drinking after 5PM.”
As someone who doesn’t drink, I have no excuse not to pick up extra surprise shifts at work other than “No, I don’t want to. I’d rather be out trying to enjoy life.”
Who cares, lie. Tell them your grandma has diarrhea, tell them you had a baby and it already has jury duty. They know the score
“My baby has jury duty.”
Sweet! I’m off the hook.
I’m drinking with my grandma’s baby, who has diarrhea.
I’m drinking my grandma’s baby’s diarrhea.
A good manager wouldn’t ask for an excuse.
You can always say you are drinking. Just don’t tell them you are drinking Fanta.
“nope, already having fun!”
When I was in the army I had an NCO that would stand outside hid barracks door with a beer and make sure everyone saw him drinking it so he couldn’t be called for a detail, I think it was the same beer for the two years I knew him.
NCO in the barracks? How long ago was this?
It was the early 2000’s and he was a single E-5 and wanted to live there.
Early 2000s Army policy was that singles E-5 and below lived in the barracks unless the barracks were over capacity. I didn’t get out until I was an E-6 because I didn’t marry the first local that let me hit it.
We still had barracks NCO’s at that time two wings two floors, an NCO for each wing and floor.
What’s a detail?
Other small duties like supervising the soldiers who get in administrative trouble and work extra time as part of punishment.
Swab the poop deck
we still have this weird cultural mindset that we think we have to give some reason/justification for not going in on a day off. fuck that, just say NOPE
personally i ignore work msg on days off. eventually they get the point that you might as well not exist to them if you’re not currently on the clock
Yes, zero reason to respond to work if you’re an hourly employee and you’re OFF the clock.
Unless they pay you specifically for being available.
I know what “on call” means.
“Yes, that’s how I cope with this job.”
“Can’t drink all day if you don’t start first thing.”
This is the whole reason Mimosas were invented
What you do outside of work hours isn’t their business day drink and ignore them.
work in shifts, drink in shifts.
