Funny, my buddy just asked me to go to the bar, and I told him he was about 15m post pajama changeover.
Skill issue
Zombies get paid the same as good employees. Don’t sacrifice your life for your job. You have a job to support the live you want to live.
I genuinely feel like this sometimes. Not with booze but with sleep.
I spend all week being tired because I get up early for work, and then when the weekend comes I’ve got a choice:
A) Have a long lie-in and recover and sleep the weekend away
B) Get up early anyway and make something of my day
So I get up early on weekends too because I HATE the thought that work gets to consume my time even on days I’m not working. No way.
Yeah just be hung over at work. How is this even a question. Would you rather be hung over on Saturday when it’s wasting YOUR time?
As a contractor, yeah… your performance is key for every job, that doesn’t work for the majority of people.
Not gonna be kept on or continue getting jobs if you can’t lay a straight line of tile or gotta go hide from the sound of the saw.
Been a long time since a hangover has stopped me from performing at work. A couple of electrolyte packets and I’m golden.
practice
How many drinks are you having that it’s an issue? How late are trivia nights running?
I’ve not been to one in a long time but I’d probably have two pints and be done before nine. That might not be accurate, it’s been fifteen years, but that’s what I recall.
I didn’t hear no bell
I’d typically be done before nine pints too 😁
Hah! Very good, I hadn’t spotted that.
Yeah, I usually have a couple of pints and am home by 8 if we leave immediately or 9-10 if we hang out longer.
🙋 Unemployed.
Question two: How do you afford bar drink prices?
Back in my uni days I was on a pretty strong team, we’d win 2-3 quizzes a week, prize money, vouchers and free crates of beer made it pretty affordable.
Where I host trivia you can have a decent time for two hours with $20.
The way ours works is that it’s free for the players and the bar pays the company I work for, so if you drink or not doesn’t matter to me.
I go to trivia that ends at 8
Most of my trivia nights end at 9. Start at 6:30-7
Being young helps. When I was in my twenties, I could do stuff like that (within limits) and still be somewhat functional the next day. These days it’s just not an option.
I’m amazed at the shit I used to do. On more than one occasion I went into the city (there’s only one the city in America) and took the 520am train home (narrowed it down for you), just in time for floor hockey at the local JCC at 750am.
Stuff like what? Are trivia nights all-night wild parties where you are?
I feel like there’s very likely something I’m missing here.
I never went to a trivia night and didn’t stay at the bar drinking with my team afterwards. Have closed many a bar that way. To me, trivia night for us out, but the main event was just hanging with friends.
Looking back, we all had drinking problems. Some still do. I know that, if I go to trivia night, I’m having three or four beers, and so that’s not a Tuesday night activity.
I remember taking an exam on 4 hours of sleep and acing it. Today, if I get any less than 6 hours I barely remember my own name. At 7 I am functional, at 8 at peak productivity
The dogs woke me up twice last night to potty due to upset tummies from a transient virus or whatever, so I got like 2 bouts of 2 hours of sleep max. I literally couldn’t remember my home address as I was drinking my first cup of coffee trying to get my day started with ordering stuff online.
I just had a baby, I am now very familiar with sleep deprivation and when it sets in! After a week of the baby waking me up every 2-3 hours, I literally couldn’t grocery shop. I was staring at the produce, then at my list, and neither made sense in my brain. I ended up buying random stuff because I knew we needed food, and somehow made it work until I could sleep a bit longer
What a terrific question!
Because, like tens of millions of people, I don’t work 9-5 Monday through Friday.
Since this is obvious question night, how did you get so fat?
I feel like 8pm isn’t that late, no? I mean, I don’t drink, but I think most people in my city straight up don’t have dinner until about 8 cuz of work.
That’s why you go to a pub that does trivia on a Wednesday instead… /s
But on a serious note, I just drink until I know 'hey, one more drink and I won’t be happy tomorrow. And if I am still over, I just make sure to stop by the 24 hour store for Powerade, red bull, and iced tea (or I guess, your absolute favlure drink to cheer you up.) Of the 5 or so hang over mornings, I’ve only been caught once by reception because I ordered 3+ hash browns for a delivery time of the time I get to work
Boss would accept the work of hungover me over the work of sober coworkers.
Till…8:30?
Coke if you’re rich and meth if you’re middle class.
I’m comfortable enough at my Job I can do most of it hungover.
