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[Zen]

thought..this doesn't look good on our Co image!

Well...that may not have been my first thought. This person needs help.Hopefully a leave of absence and treatment is in order instead of a firing which would only make things worse for said person.

[crazycanuck]

Well, I have no idea how many times this has happened as i'm covering at the particular building.. The Co director came & spoke to her but am unsure what happens next.

Coming to work drunk on a MOnday???

[katluvr]

I mean I do DREAD Monday's...returning to work and all. But I think showing up drunk is just not the best way to handle it.
I just crank up the java and hope for an easy transition back into work.
Wow!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

It's a leftover/continued drunk from Sunday night, perhaps with maintenance 'booster shots'.
not uncommon at all for an alcoholic to still be drunk monday morning. Very sad. She needs to want to get herself some help.

[bmccasland]

Yesterday at a picnic, a massage therapist friend of mine, who owns her own spa, was grumbling that she had to send one of her employees home to bathe and put on clean clothes - and this isn't the first time she's had to do this with the gal. Employee is putting new meaning to "roll out of bed, go to work," with absolutely nothing else in the middle! My friend would love to fire some of her employees for poor work habits, but when she posts ads (paper, Craig's List, on-line lists, schools), she gets very little results.

[Duck on Wheels]

You did the right thing by reporting her. Yes, she needs help. She won't get it if all her colleagues play the enabler role by pretending not to notice. Now it's her boss's responsibility to offer her the help she needs and pressure her to take the offer. As a fellow employee you would have no authority to do either of those things, so alerting the boss is the right thing to do, also for your troubled colleague's sake.

[KnottedYet]

Drunk or diabetic/hypoglycemic?

The two (three) can be frighteningly similar. Ketoacidosis (with crazy high blood sugar) can even make a person smell drunk. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can really mess with balance and cognition and emotional stability, which I know all too well.

I'm in the process of getting a medic alert anklet made that says clearly "Feed Me Sugar!" (I'll also modify my RoadIDs) Someone encountering me in a hypoglycemic state would assume I was drunk, which could lead to me biting the big one.

When I was in EMT training we were told to give sublingual glucose to anyone acting oddly. It could save the life of someone with low blood sugar (diabetic insulin reaction or just plain ol' hypoglycemic) and would only mildly discomfit someone with normal or high blood sugar until they get to the ER.

Whatever the cause, someone showing up to work Monday swaying and acting oddly needs to see the doc asap. Either for health management or for detox... You did good, CC!

[Tuckervill]

Knotted, my youth baseball park is surrounded by a walking trail, and there's a big shady playground right between a couple of my fields. When we were out working on Saturday, we saw an ambulance come flying through the parking lot and the EMTs ran out to the playground. Since it's "my" ballpark, I ran out to see if I could help.

A man had apparently been sitting in the shade under the playground tarp after his walk, and passed out. EMTs immediately found his medical alert bracelet. Diabetic. Blood sugar, 26! If there had been any other circumstances, like if it had been in the evening or in a big city, and if he had not been dressed neatly in Harley-Davidson t-shirt, I would have thought he was drunk, too.

I shudder to think what would have happened if a little girl in a stroller with her mama walking on the trail had not wanted to stop at the playground and her mother had not found the gentleman lying there. There were 25 of us working on the fields getting ready for a tournament, and none of us saw him out there. That would have disturbed me for ages if he had died.

I am very happy that our EMTs and police in our small town are so good at their jobs. No one we found knew who he was, but the police went straight to work, found his car in the lot, and went straight to his home to find his family. Their heroism makes me feel safe. And proud.

Karen

[TsPoet]

Drunk or diabetic/hypoglycemic?

The two (three) can be frighteningly similar. Ketoacidosis (with crazy high blood sugar) can even make a person smell drunk. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can really mess with balance and cognition and emotional stability, which I know all too well.

That was exactly what my first thought was - Monday morning is also a good time to have screwed up blood sugar levels due to eating that piece of cake the night before.
I have a coworker who has twice just left my office in the middle of a conversation and re-appeared a few minutes later with a candy bar. I have glucose tablets in my desk, but the candy bar tastes so much better
He says I start to slur my words.
Drunk is also possible, as has been noted, my Uncle used to seem drunk mostly just on Monday mornings. He handled the alcohol in such a way that Friday-Sunday night he didn't seem that bad. He seemed worse when he was coming off of the binge.

[Zen]

Coming to work drunk on a MOnday???

Is there an acceptable day?