Any functional alcoholics here?

[Bernard Murphy]

I've been drinking and I just don't get how someone could work like this.

 

[Stetten's Long Thumbers]

When I drink too many days over 2 weeks I just stop cause it's fucking rough

 

[Bernard Murphy]

I'm not judging or anything, I just think of myself as all fucked up and then going and trying to do anything would suck. Manual labor would make me puke, and I'd get nothing done coding or anything.

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

I'm one of those things.

 

[gassers]

 

[captain_kamala]

When I drink, it's 8 to 12 drinks a day starting at 8 am. But I can stop and I have.

 

[gassers]

When I drink, it's 8 to 12 drinks a day starting at 8 am. But I can stop and I have.

You served in the navy by any chance?

 

[not that Jack Horner]

define “functioning”

 

[Jenna]

I don't drink on the job unless it's a work-sponsored party. There's been times I've been peer pressured into having a cocktail or two at lunch and having to come back and do work when you're buzzed blows.

 

[Bernard Murphy]

define “functioning”

You need to drink to perform some other daily function, i.e. sleeping, working, spending time with others.

 

[guest]

I don't drink on the job unless it's a work-sponsored party. There's been times I've been peer pressured into having a cocktail or two at lunch and having to come back and do work when you're buzzed blows.

I thought everyone in the SNL writers room was drunk all the time. That would explain a lot.

 

[gassers]

I thought everyone in the SNL writers room was drunk all the time. That would explain a lot.

no wonder norton never got hired.

 

[TheNanaDook]

Probably. I don’t know the criteria but I’ve been drunk at work plenty of times. Every time i fly out to be on site, the lunches and dinners turn into drink fests and have been up drinking until 3am on a Tuesday with coworkers. Been drunk before 3pm on many Fridays and usually leads to blackouts.

So, yeah i think so.

 

[Steve Ramone]

You need to drink to perform some other daily function, i.e. sleeping, working, spending time with others.

Wtf, is that really the definition? Fawk

 

[Bernard Murphy]

Probably. I don’t know the criteria but I’ve been drunk at work plenty of times. Every time i fly out to be on site, the lunches and dinners turn into drink fests and have been up drinking until 3am on a Tuesday with coworkers. Been drunk before 3pm on many Fridays and usually leads to blackouts.

So, yeah i think so.

That's crazy man. I suppose that's the positive of working a job like that; shit gets done even when everyone gets sloshed.

 

[TheNanaDook]

That's crazy man. I suppose that's the positive of working a job like that; shit gets done even when everyone gets sloshed.

Yeah, weirdly enough, even though I’m a mess, I’m in the top 10% of what i do, so even when I’m slacking, I’m ahead of the rest of the useless people at the company.

 

[Brooke Shields]

If I don't get to be a functioning alcoholic, I turn into a non-functioning sober-ee

 

[guest]

I'm a daily drinker but it's always after work. I usually have three or four rum and sodas but sometimes a couple more. Rarely get drunk or have a hangover. I think I technically qualify as an alcoholic despite it not hampering my life at all but I don't care.

 

[Bernard Murphy]

I'm a daily drinker but it's always after work. I usually have three or four rum and sodas but sometimes a couple more. Rarely get drunk or have a hangover. I think I technically qualify as an alcoholic despite it not hampering my life at all but I don't care.

So you're not feeling the buzz anymore? That's a though one.

Did you start drinking after work for the buzz and just stopped feeling it?

 

[guest]

So you're not feeling the buzz anymore? That's a though one.

Did you start drinking after work for the buzz and just stopped feeling it?

I get the buzz, just stop short of getting drunk. I mainly drink for the muscle relaxing properties - I work a physically demanding job and I'd rather punish my kidneys with good old hooch than pills - they don't give that warm glow that rum does.

If I have things to do I'll put off the drinks until everything's wrapped up and just have one or two before turning in.