Fired for intoxication but I wasn't drunk

rod

Retired 22 years
Ah, the old days again. Every Fri. morning you usually had 6 to 8 guys who were still half
drunk from the night before plus 4 or 5 managers or sups. Everybody went to work, nobody
said a word, and nothing ever happened. Did I ever do that? Yeah sure.

Those Thirsty Thursday nights out were EPIC. Not proud of it but I remember one day hiding in an alley puking my guts out from the night before. I shut the bars down many Thursday nights and then met the wives after work on Friday to do it all over again. We were bullet proof.
 

allahuakbar

She/Her
You should have told them you have a drinking problem and need to check into a program before they made you go through the test. You wouldn’t have got fired and you would probably have to do 90 day inpatient but you’d still have a job.
 

Maple Grove MN Driver

Cocaine Mang!
Those Thirsty Thursday nights out were EPIC. Not proud of it but I remember one day hiding in an alley puking my guts out from the night before. I shut the bars down many Thursday nights and then met the wives after work on Friday to do it all over again. We were bullet proof.
It was 2 to 4 nights a week for us.
We didn't drink with Management though.
Not having a hangover when punching in the next morning was rare in the 80s and early 90s
 

Johney

Well-Known Member
You should have told them you have a drinking problem and need to check into a program before they made you go through the test. You wouldn’t have got fired and you would probably have to do 90 day inpatient but you’d still have a job.
No,should've called out.
 

542thruNthru

Well-Known Member
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LarryBird

Well-Known Member
You should have told them you have a drinking problem and need to check into a program before they made you go through the test. You wouldn’t have got fired and you would probably have to do 90 day inpatient but you’d still have a job.
If this isn't a troll, he's probably still gonna get his job back if he's willing to go to inpatient rehab. It won't be for 90 days. It won't even be for 28 days - usually insurance will only pay for 21 days for a person's first trip to rehab. So he will go to 21 days inpatient, then he will have conditions to meet to come back...#1 is meeting an addiction specialist for an aftercare assessment...#2 is likely to be some hoops that the addiction specialist sets up such as therapy sessions or outpatient rehab once per week for a bit...#3 is a clean piss test and breathalyzer upon completion of whatever aftercare program he's given before he can return...#4 is two 12 step meetings per week for like 3 months with the signatures of two attendees at each meeting necessary and these will be sent in to the SAP...#5 is random drug and alcohol screening for a minimum of 1 year, to be extended up to 5 years, depending on the recommendation of the SAP.

If he gets a hot piss or registers even a .02 on the breathalyzer, he's gone, and there's nothing anyone in the union or at UPS can do - once he's in the program they're not even involved, because of a potential conflict of interest, it's the SAP who is in control of everything, including when and how often the tests will be.
 

clean hairy

Well-Known Member
The one part that does not add up, is a Cop pulled over a motorist for speeding, smelled booze on the breath, and just let him go?
What state did this happen in?
As far as I know, a motorist who smells of booze is given sobriety tests on the side of the road, fail the tests, do not pass go, a chauffer takes you straight to jail......
 
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