Guys I work retail and some of my coworkers are unironic alcoholics. A few have been fired over the years because of drinking but some are still holding the line. I was talking to a coworker this morning and he smelled like he just drank a beer. I smell it on coworkers when they come back from lunch too.

They don't know people can tell because alcoholism plays a trick on your brain that makes you think people don't know. It's really just my middle aged coworkers who seem to have the problem drinking.

>>81572395 (OP)
Wow that's a very cool story anon.

>>81572395 (OP)
I know people can smell when you have a drink. That's why I don't drink until I get off work and just put up with the mild withdrawals in the meantime.

anyways. you can get away with it if you only have one or two drinks, wait 40 minutes, then brush your teeth. but people at work don't usually have time for that.

>>81572395 (OP)
They know, they just think they can get away with it, some pee at strategic hours and all that. The firings are deserved

I don't see a problem with a couple drinks at work. As long as you're not puking what's the harm?

>>81572395 (OP)
Don't tell on them anon, they're just trying to make the day as a wage slave go by abit less miserably

im still able to hold out and only drink after and keep it safe (as in, long enough between binging and operating a vehicle safe). but woah shit dude i am fucking myself up hard. i wonder if people at work can see it? or just know because wew i just by my alcohol right there at work

>>81573075
>functional alcoholic
You ever feel like you haven't gotten a real night of sleep in weeks?.... It gets brutal

>>81573126
yeah. ive been a lot worse before and experienced a pretty wide range of symptoms.

like 6-7 years ago there was a point where i had kept it up so long so hard constantly that i was unable to stand up and all my muscles were screaming, i wiggled on all fours the 15 feet from my bed to the fridge, got a glass of water out, drank it, got back to bed, and it took about 2 hours because i was shaking so hard it was impossible to...eh. just the really bad physical stuff. now its not so bad!

>>81573075
I did the same for years. bought a fifth of liquor every day after work and got destroyed, but I never drank at work or in the morning, and I would get mad at coworkers who did. you have to be a special kind of degenerate to go that far.

>>81573144
I feel you. My symptoms are pretty consistent but it feels like lately I have been getting nerve damage and sometimes... My veins hurt? Lol.

Anyways, I am trying to sober up as we speak. That's why I am awake right now.
I had a couple glasses of wine so I would be able to sleep and I still feel fucking wired from withdrawal

>>81573161
veins hurt in your crotch region?

>>81573167
No it just feels like specific spots get pinched and it doesnt feel like muscles or joints. Like one is the vein in my left elbow (where they take blood).
Just starts hurting every once in a while

>>81573183
hmmm dont have anything that close to that. i (way back before everything and all the substance abuse) used to get mad gnarly pinching in my lower hip/spine that radiated out slowly and was like a 7/10 on the pain scale and the only way to subdue it was to fucking ball my fist and ram my knuckles into my hip and spine? dunno what that shit was about. was horribly bad till i figured out i could just...beat myself up and fall asleep before the dopamine wore off or whatever got released.

>>81573209
Lol yeah the move a lot of the time is to just dose more. Always makes any symptom better in my experience.

But I have some medical comorbidities and I am just hurtling towards an early death so I am chilling out until my health is in completely ideal conditions.

>>81573257
do drugs and fuck hookers. anyways im gonna attempt to fall asleep at (the lastest humanely possible) reasonable hour, which means lay in bed and stare at my phone. so i might reply, might not. either way, nighty night anon

>>81573280
Sleep well, mang.