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Original poster

Drunk colleagues

45 replies

manon123x · 04/01/2018 15:21

AIBU to think it's not okay to be drunk in the office..?

Two colleagues go for an hours lunch every day to the pub (we only get 30 mins lunch) and come back smashed! They carry on drinking at work and send me and my other colleague all their work to do.

They have bottles of vodka etc in their drawers and mix their drinks in a coke bottle.

We get on with them but want to know AIBU?!?! We're getting fed up now of having to put up with them being drunk every day and getting sent all the work :(

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BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot · 04/01/2018 15:24

Raise it with management

Flawedbroad · 04/01/2018 15:24

Absolutely unacceptable. Is there no one you can report them too? I wouldn't be able to put up with that at all

AnnetteCurtains · 04/01/2018 15:28

They are seriously taking the piss
How has management not noticed or are they the managers ?

Crunchymum · 04/01/2018 15:30

Where do you work? How has this not been flagged up?

Poshindevon · 04/01/2018 15:31

Drunkeness in the work place constitutes gross misconduct.
Your drunken colleagues are putting their own and your safety at risk.
You need to report this to management asap.

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 15:35

Its a bit of a hard situation!

We're a really small company and one of the women is office manager! Everything is overlooked like its okay but if was any other colleague then they would be sacked!

It's so unfair but I don't want to make my relationship with them awkward as there are only 4 of us in the office, with a bigger customer service team just next to us.. How do I bring it up to management without them knowing it was me?!

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Bluntness100 · 04/01/2018 15:38

The office manager and one of her direct lines/your peers, get pissed every day? And no one has noticed? Ffs.

You can speak to her manager about it, but are you sure there will be no repuricussions on you? I'd look for another job.

Looks like they are alcoholics.

Vitalogy · 04/01/2018 15:40

All the work they send you, could you just send the work back or not do it.

LoniceraJaponica · 04/01/2018 15:42

That's a sackable offence where I work. I don't believe that no-one else has noticed.

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 15:45

The office manager and an assistant manager in my department. My manager seems to have no clue but he must know?!

I know it would come back on me if anyone found out. Its got a lot worse in the last few months and me and my colleague are getting so fed up now.

The MD hasn't noticed, other people in the office have noticed but they're not in our department so don't say anything and let them get on with it. As I said it's a small company so people talk and would know who it's come from.... So stuck!!

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 15:47

I could do, but I don't want it to be a bad reflection on me, not doing work that an assistant manager has sent over... its a hard situation!

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 15:49

Apparently they were caught doing it before and the MD had a 'word' with them. Now when we have a party at work we are no longer allowed alcohol (MD used to buy a bottle of champagne and we'd have a glass each).

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chocolateworshipper · 04/01/2018 15:51

Could you find an excuse to ask one of them to open their drawer when the MD is around?

Could an anonymous note find itself into the MD's office and you look shocked when it is found? If you have a good friend there in a different department, maybe get them to sneak it into his/her office when you're not around?

AnnetteCurtains · 04/01/2018 15:54

I'd be going to the MD with several of my colleagues
Fuck that doing their work for them & them having extended lunch hours
Not only that they are being paid to work , sod it if they know it's you
Bet people would be cheering you on

TheLegendOfBeans · 04/01/2018 15:55

Anonymous letter to the MD?

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 04/01/2018 15:56

Do they drive home after work? If so, maybe call the police who could nab them as they leave the office. This is definitely an instant dismissal where I work. If they get sacked, does it matter if they know where it came from?

SilverySurfer · 04/01/2018 15:57

When I worked in HR in a Government Dept you practically had to be guilty of murder for the legal requirement of written and verbal warnings as a precursor to getting fired to even begin. During my eleven years there, I can only recall firing one person and that was because of his drinking.

What your colleagues are doing in completely unacceptable and you should report it - would your MD not want to know?

SweetChickadee · 04/01/2018 15:59

I had this once. My manager and his manager, and often his manager would all fuck off to the pub for 3 hours and then start moaning about things not being done by us when they got back. We were doing 10 or 11 hour days with no lunch break FFS

I just upped and left in the end. Fucked me off no end. Made an official complaint in my exit interview to HR. I wasn't the first Hmm

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 16:01

Couldn't really find an excuse. The MD is clueless to anything unless you spell it out for him!

I only found the bottle of vodka in the bottom of the drawer when I asked her for something and she told me to look in there, wrapped up in a tescos bag! It's so frustrating but I know if I was to say something it would come back on me!

Would it be worth mentioning something to them? Saying that our office stinks of alcohol every time they come back from lunch?! Or would that be a bit rude haha?

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 16:03

SweetChickadee - That sounds exactly like whats going on here! Even if something was said they wouldn't be sacked at the MD probably thinks he couldn't run the company without, when he clearly could!

Think that might be what I have to do. Leave and grass them up on my departure!!!!

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sarahjconnor · 04/01/2018 16:08

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manon123x · 04/01/2018 16:20

It is, but how do I bring it up in conversation?!

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PyongyangKipperbang · 04/01/2018 16:23

Do either of them drive home from work?

BashStreetKid · 04/01/2018 16:26

Can't you all discover massive workloads which mean that you're terribly sorry but you just can't take on the work they try to shunt your way?

SouthWindsWesterly · 04/01/2018 16:26

Do they drive home? I’d report them to the police and give number plates as well

I’d also raise it with the MD with my work colleague - safety in numbers and all. If he needs more evidence then advise him to talk to the other departments who share your office.

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