ZoeLouise asked:
Workers in Peru who turn up drunk in the morning cannot be fired, the country’s top court has ruled.
Pablo Cayo was given the sack for being intoxicated at work, but his employer has now been ordered to give him his job back.
Fernando Calle, one of the justices at the court, said that although Mr Cayo was drunk, he did not offend or hurt anybody.
So if you turned up drunk at work, how would your employers respond?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Drunk-At-Work-Peru-Court-Rules-Intoxication-On-The-Job-Is-Not-A-Sackable-Offence/Article/200901315203814?lpos=Strange_News_News_Your_Way_Region_1&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15203814_Drunk_At_Work%3A_Peru_Court_Rules_Intoxication_On_The_Job_Is_Not_A_Sackable_Offence
no , but i might just start
It’s mandatory in my company.
Hhmm mine would shoot me on the spot, or fire me! You can’t deal with the public ratarsed.- and he would be right. In the uk, pissed at work is gross midconduct.
Only in the sense of coming in still drunk from the night before.
I would be sent home. Probably sacked and have my registration taken away. Im a nurse !! x
My employer would instantly dismiss me. No question.
I used to work at restaurant in San Francisco. I would show up buzzed and then drink free wine all night during my shift, by the time it was time to leave I’d be wasted. I don’t think my boss minded, in fact he usually poured me my first drink!
Nope, been stoned though. That day went like a breeze….!
At work and at school, and got sent home from both on occasion.
oh yes, it was a regular friday afternoon event, even the managers were there…..that’s local government for you..lol
I think i was still drunk this morning, i got home at just after 4 and had to get back up at 6 for work, i didnt feel or act drunk, i just felt… argh!! and my breath…. yuck lol no’one would even nottice, we are that under staffed that your lucky if you walk past another member of staff!
i havent did that since i was 16!! so much for leaving to go home early…
A little bit but not enough for people to tell. There are a few people worse than me who turn up at 8am to start work and have been up all night drinking spirits. They’re all over the place and stink of booze but no one says anything. They were supposed to be bringing in a breathalyser test in the new year for people to take but nothings been said of it since. One of the security guards come in pissed up the once because he was depressed and they sacked him. But one of their jobs is to make announcements on the tannoy and tell people to phone numbers so when he was slurring his words and sounded as if his dog had been shot then people got suspicious and he was caught. Oh well just a crazy place to work.
never, cuz i need to drive so i can hardly afford to, anyone turning up fo work blootered should be sacked on the spot
yeah its fun
there is every chance I have, I don’t know if anyone noticed.
Lol. yes, I used to tend bar and sometimes a party over runs kicking out time.
yes many years ago
i worked in a posh department store and we would spend lunch hour in the pub
I have been very hungover…maybe to the point of still be drunk
I think I would be dragged off the premises by my hair and slung into the lake in the grounds of our building! I often joke at work that I would like a vodka when things are stressful, but I would never turn up drunk…though I have gone in with very bad hangovers before!
most mornings im stinking of drink
no
but i know a head teacher who has ….often
i daresay being drunk in charge of children might be breaking some rule or other …but for a head teacher sitting in an office it is not seen as important by the school’s chair of governors …..disgusting
Couldn’t have got through the day sober. Retired now though, thank goodness.
When I started working, over 25 years ago, people regularly went to the pub at lunch time! And when I first started at London Underground a little under 20 years ago, I’d go to the pub with the line controllers a lunchtime and have a couple of pints. That all changed after the Kings Cross fire and jobs were graded for how much you could drink, and how long beforehand, before a shift. Even office jobs were graded.
With my current employer? I have very occasionally gone out for a pint at lunchtime, we all have a drink at the Christmas do and that’s about it.
No I have never been drunk at work. Hungover yes!
However, did you know that it is illegal to sack someone who is a registered alcoholic for turning up drunk to work? It is because alcoholism is classed as an illness.
I used to own my own bar so it wasn’t a problem and as much as I would have liked to, I couldn’t sack myself.
I like a drink, but I would be ashamed of being seen drunk anywhere.
Hope he wasn’t a school bus driver?
As a brain surgeon I ought to know better but I just cant resist those liquid lunches