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Drugs in the workplace (Merged)

I'd agree with everyone that said the waiters and cooks etc... a lot of them do drugs to stay awake such as coke and meth. I believe cokes more abundant though in most places, but then again I don't know that for sure.

-dp

i'd say opiates are the king. cooks are bending over and standing for up to 14 hours at a time. by the end of the night your back, feet, and legs are radiating pain.
 
The IT sector I'd say.

With a business doing retail and repairs there are sometimes long work hours involved - or else people who probably go out of their way to annoy you (you know the sort).

Weed, Xanax, Vals, for those long blissful hours that seem to pass by :\
 
i work for a bank, i'm a stoner, smoke every day and i used to get stoned before work and go in and go through the motions and people would think i was tired for a few hours.. but i stopped doin that when i moved into a role where i gotta use my brains more, not so robotic perhaps..

still, i look forward to my first cone when i get through the door oh so much

had a rough one on the chemicals one 'school night' and decided i'd have a puff on the glass dick before work and ended up profusely sweating and having huge sweat pit marks.. eh won't be doin that one again..
 
I,ve worked in a few restaraunts, the more advertised ones, and virtually everyone at them got high. Same in the construction industry. I currently work at a recycling center and I have to say the same about it. If they drug tested us on a random basis no one there would be employed. Well, maybe the owner but sometimes I wonder...
 
Software design
Systems Analyst = weed+amps

Databse Developer
Software Engineer = amps


Web Developer
Graphics design = Mushrooms/LSD/Weed

Database Admin = weed

IT Project manager - coke
 
I had been clean for about 7 years and had a great job. Was a Regional VP for a service company licencee'd too Wally World. I traveled allot of the country mostly by a Piper Archer (small 4 seater private plane). One day passing over Nashville, Tenn on my way too the head office in North Carolina, I start feeling nausious and weird. Long story /short my appendix popped and I was given dillies for about a month. That was the end of the 7 yrs clean and for the next 4-5yrs. I worked continuously on H and or methadone. Can't tell you how many 100s of 1000's I spent staying "straight" but I can say that my job performance was excellent as I made bonus money nearly every quarter. One day I nodded out during a meeting (God knows what I mumbled) cause when I popped awake everyone was looking at me strangely. A little while later I finally approached the owner of the company and laid it all out, what was what, and that I needed too rehab. They were shocked but he seemed ok at the time and I did go too rehab but things were never the same after that and I wish I had never spilled. Might have still been there when they sold out the company and the stocks I had as a participant made about 5 mil versus the paltrey $48 grand they paid me off with at the time I left. Oh well, I'd have probably just blown it like I did the $48g's.
 
From my limited employment experience, I would have to say that the restaraunt industry (on the waiter/slave level) is filled to the top with drug users.

Anybody seen anything that can top it in this regard?

lol i work in a restaurant, and i dont incriminate myself on a public forum
he would make fun of me for rolling [before i knew he did it], even though i never told anyone when i first started working there, and i was like how the fuck does he know i do it? [i don't go to work rolling or etarded]
then i found out he did it and it all made sense lol

he gave me some ritalin at work the other day too lol; he's cool

i didnt incriminate myself once because i was hungover [alcohol] and felt like shit and wanted to go home, and he let me after like 2 hours [i was supposed to work for like 6]

i love going to work on amps and occasionally stoned
 
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Restaurant workers: opiates, weed, and alcohol

Office/professional/sales and marketing: alcohol and benzos.

Just my own experience.
 
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i have worked alot of retail but i have also worked in the bodyshop industry for about 2 years. two seperate one year stints.

everyone in the bodyshop talks about the 'old days' about 10 -20 years (depending on the persons age) when body shops (it wasnt just this shop) were infested with meth, rx amps, coke for work and lots of painkillers and dope for goin home at night

when i was there most people wouldnt admit to any coke or meth use but a few did and alot of people i was skeptical about, most people were still pretty willing to admit painkiller use/abuse but if anyone did H it was hush hush.

3/4 of bodymen and painters smoked weed also
 
Government contractor, did statistical compiling from healthcare institutions (pharmacies, private doctors offices, hospitals, etc) for gov't studies. Place seemed like some horrible nightmare- H dealer at the time worked there, recommended it (payed better than retail, no drug testing, easy work). I couldn't hack it; after a bad batch of dope that went around, had horrible leper looking tracks and huge red lumps all over my body, nodding out all the time at my desk, sometimes tracks would open up and blood would stain my shirt/pants. Shooting up in the parking lot, bathrooms, taking 4 or 5 hour 'breaks' in the middle of the day. One payday I picked up my check and quit. It was only a matter of time (probably within a few days) that something was going to happen resulting in an arrest. Only place I've worked where I didn't find other drug users, not a single one. Probably why no one took much notice of my appearance/behavior.

Pharmacies have a low level of drug use. Healthcare drug users (especially older ones) are wound up so tight they are the ones most likely to turn you in for stealing drugs or using on the job.
 
I worked at a telemarketing--er 'fundraising'-- firm for about six months. out of the four employees (myself included) that were there for my entire stint, 75% were IV heroin addicts, 25% were IV coke addicts, and another 50% were more than occasional recreational IV coke users, 100% were alcoholics, 100% smoked weed 5-7 days per week, 100% would shoot/snort/eat basically any pill put in front of them.

one coworker would take 2 hour lunches, come back and go straight to the bathroom, then stumble out 30 minutes later with his shirt half unbuttoned, his belt hanging unbuckled, bleeding profusely from multiple puncture wounds in his arm, head to his desk, make a phone call then pass out cold. this happened repeatedly and nothing was said or done by the dude in charge. the three of us that were addicted to opiates would go to lunch together and if we couldn't score in the alloted hour, we'd call with some retarded excuse and show up 30 minutes to an hour late-- nodding as we walked in the door. i can't even begin to guess how many times we had 'car problems' or 'trouble cashing our checks.' the supervisor allowed this behavior because we made him money, pure and simple.

i'm not going to lie, i still look back on that job as one of the most fun/insane 6 months of my life.
 
Fast food restaurants go through drug trends. When I first started here, there was a lot of drinking at work and after. But then they got fired for taking too many sick days, and stoners replaced them. The stoners got fired 'cuz they're so damn lazy and late. Now their replacements do a lot of pain pills. I swear we've had more injuries in this restaurant the last few weeks than most places see in a year.

I might see if some of my coworkers (the closing team) might go tripping with me. Anyone ever tried tripping with coworkers? I think it'll actually bring our teamwork and morale together. Some mushrooms, prolly. DXM doesn't have a good reputation.
 
All the places I used to work at pretty much had no drug users. very little. I feel like I missed out.

Last place I was an ESL teacher, so I was pretty much alone with students who really didn't seem like drug users at all. They probably drank, they were mostly cool as hell kids from Europe but none of them really exhibited that drug user look, more like preppy straight edge. They were all a little younger than me. Then before that I worked at clinical and scientific labs at a university. At one of them my immediate higher up, genius Mexican-American chica was stoned 24/7, so she used to come over to my place and hang out with me and all my druggie friends. I was also dating the lab's professor's son who was a total stoner, cool guy. The rest of the labs no one knew I was a druggie, cuz they were all so straight edge that i would mostly never tell anyone. One time the topic of E came up and they were like "OMG I would never do it, maybe when I'm really old, cuz u die from it", and they asked me and I said I tried it once (lair). They all thought they were all fucking smart, probably thought they were smarter than me and when it was time to take exams (we had to take exams based on some readings and what we did at work) some of the them failed and I passed all of them and I'm sure they all thought I was a druggie. When they came in crying that they failed I felt bad but then remembered that some of them were stuck up and it would put them in their place haha.

At one lab there was an older gay guy who was mostly cool but sometimes a whiney little bitch. He used to tell me about his gay sex adventures and his boyfriends and that even thou most people think otherwise they mostly never have anal sex, it's just bjs. So I told him a little bit about my druggie life. Once I had to work Sat morning and I overslept cuz I got totally fucked up. I just got up and went straight to work with totally messed up hair and makeup. I was definitely the person to look at for the day.

One time my stoner bf got me a job as a security guard at one of the dorms at out school. We used to get stoned together on a regular basis. One time he was like "do I look ok?" meaning can u tell he's stoned and then I started laughing cuz there was a big piece of weed stuck to the top front of his sweater, totally light green, visible and just sitting there. That was one of the funner moments of my on the job drug use.

So I feel like I missed out cuz I only knew one drug user in all the time I worked. I hope I'll meet more drug users along they way in the work place.
 
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worked in public health. probably some folks that smoked, but not the kind of atmosphere that was conducive to finding out.

worked in restaurants. everybody does drugs, but depends on the particular restaurant. probably over 50% of the folks i work w/ now smoke, but i get the feeling there isn't a lot of hard drug use. i don't think i work with ANYONE who doesn't drink.
 
along the same lines as what Tuskface was saying. I worked collections for 6 months at a financial services company for one very well known car company but will leave out the name haha. The way it broke down was you have early collections, mid collections, and late collections. And the job consists of being on the phone all day calling people that havent paid their car payment. The early collectors were all temps and the mid collectors and late collectors were temps that were hired and some were even temps that had just been at the company for so long. This job was the easiest job ever and paid well for how stupid the task was. I would still be there now i wasnt offered a better job elsewhere.

Since the job was so easy people did everything there coke, pain killers, weed, and like someone else said earlier tons of benzos especially since you are dealing with people all day the majority of which arent happy that you are calling them as early as 8am lol. For me it was oc's and dope many times id be in the bathroom straining some oc off my hose clamp. One time i heard someone go in the stall next to me and just empty out what i assumed was a bag of dope but could have been anything and blatantly sniff something so i continued to strain and sniff my oc and we came out and he looked startled and i just laughed and he realized i was doing something too and laughed and he turned out to be from the customer service department haha needless to say everyone there was doing something except for maybe some older people.

Forgot to add the best part...the town i worked in was the town where my buddy picked up his H so 2 or 3 times a week when i would run out of my shit he would deliver bags to my work. I would just go meet him in the parking lot do a bag with him and hang out for a few minutes and then go back in content that i was stocked up again. nothing better than placing an order and having it delivered at work haha
 
Being a lifeguard allows me to do almost any drug with no worries. Sure I have to watch swimmers and ensure their safety and whatnot but rarely does anything happen. In my 3 years of working as a lifeguard I've only had to jump in and save someone once, so the chances of something happening are slim to none. Also when I dose something and go to work I make sure that I'm not overdoing it, I once took 6mg of xanax and ended up doing lifeguard training that same workday. It was very enjoyable and I almost believe that I preformed everything better than normal.
 
Being a lifeguard allows me to do almost any drug with no worries. Sure I have to watch swimmers and ensure their safety and whatnot but rarely does anything happen. In my 3 years of working as a lifeguard I've only had to jump in and save someone once, so the chances of something happening are slim to none. Also when I dose something and go to work I make sure that I'm not overdoing it, I once took 6mg of xanax and ended up doing lifeguard training that same workday. It was very enjoyable and I almost believe that I preformed everything better than normal.

Lifeguarding is the best job ever. I did it all through high school and my first two yrs of college. I would be so stoned with my senior lifeguard all the time, it was hilarious. One of the junior lifeguards (some 16 yr old kid i trained) was our weed dealer. We did almost every drug imaginable there, 11am-8pm. The pay was sweet too. I didn't do it last yr because I studied abroad but I think I'm going to get re-certified so I can do it next summer. %)
 
I work from home, so needless to say I'm high on SOMETHING most days. I try to save the poppy tea for the evening as it tends to dull my mental capacities, but weed and Benzedrex are golden.

Most artists, performers and creators do drugs, as do truck drivers and others whose work requires long hours/hard manual labor...and lets not forget professional athletes (*cough* STEROIDS! *cough*)
 
I would have to say that the restaurant industry (on the waiter/slave level) is filled to the top with drug users.

This is so true. After getting tipped out I'd take my hundreds of dollars and drive from the restaurant straight to my dealers and basically hand him all my cash for the stash, that was until I got caught up doing drugs in the employee bathroom by the ONE person that didn't do drugs in the whole place. LUCK.
 
Everywhere

I'd say that on the whole the unskilled labor jobs would attract the highest number of people who use, but drug use is so rampant in the USA that there's probably very few places who don't have a few and a stoner or whatever your drug is of choice usually attracts others.
It's cool that those who who practice this way can with a few witty phrases let others know by dropping a word or two which another of the same can immediately pick up on.
I'd have to agree with you on the lower level food industry as being the place that has the most but alot of factories do also.
 
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