Working when hungover

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

I went out last night to some punk gig and was drinking double rums from 5pm til when I left. As a consequence I'm still probably a bit drunk (or hungover, but I still can't even walk all that straight) at work. When I was younger (like 15) I couldn't cope with getting up after drinking and going to work but when I got my job in a bowling alley when I was 16 I pretty much came to work fucked every single shift I did. I'd have to call my mum every Sunday to take me there because I could barely get out of bed, I'd be sick like every 10minutes for the whole time but I did my job just fine and everybody just thought I was having trouble looking after myself, not that I was partying til the minute I had to get my ass to work.

So anyway, this was my long winded way of saying how do you cope at work when you're hungover? I perform my job just fine, I'm sure any idiot could do, but I think the killer for me is feeling so damn tired and after a few hours I just wanna curl up and sleep for a while.

 

[ZRH]

I don't get hangovers.

Ever.

And blah blah blah I dont drink enough but I do.

When I have a cold or something though (closest thing), I usually take copious amounts of painkillers, and put more painkillers in my pockets and spend the entire thing feeling like a marshmallow.

Then again, it's normal for me to be in pain, barely able to stay awake, and hardly able to breathe (have indoor allergies) on the job. That's just what going to work means.

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

I don't believe that you drink a huge amount and never get a hangover. Even if you don't get hungover, one day it'll catch up with you and you'll start feeling like shit most times you drink.

 

[ZRH]

Meh, prolly catch up sometime.

Do you ever get that queasy feeling when you get woken up from a really deep sleep? Usually happens when I have to go to work early, makes me feel like crap all day. Then you cant sleep, and you have a sorta lingering headache.

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

Don't know the feeling. I definately feel dizzy and a bit queasy, but that's purely the alcohol. I'm having some beans on toast and hash browns with some pepsi, that should sort me out.

 

[ZRH]

Some guy made me beans in the morning once

With ketchup...

The thought of it still makes me ill

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

Hmmm, sounds like it'd settle your stomach. A friend of mine used to have ketchup with everything (not sure if he still does). You'd cook him a nice meal like a curry or something and he'd always put ketchup all over it.

Anyway, back on topic and back to work.

 

[Asbo]

Go and have a beer at lunch time.

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

Can't, my manager is here all day today

 

[Asbo]

but can't you go out at lunch time?

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

We don't take lunches at the hospital, no time for them and no staff to cover us and answer phones. Breaks are a laughable concept.

 

[Asbo]

aww that sucks, do you have long to go in your shift? How you feeling now?

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

aww that sucks, do you have long to go in your shift? How you feeling now?

Finish at 4 so another 5 hours. Feeling a little grim, my head is heavy and dizzy and I feel a bit sick. More than anything I just want to be in bed. Meh.

 

[APRIL]

Your hangover chances are less if you are drinking glasses of water alongside your drink of choice.

 

[APRIL]

Your hangover chances are less if you are drinking glasses of water alongside your drink of choice.

Chikken will think this is blasphemy tho.

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

Your hangover chances are less if you are drinking glasses of water alongside your drink of choice.

Yeah and I always intend to do something like that, except when you're drunk you forget little details like that. I always think 'oh I'll have a pint of water before I sleep' but inevitably I end up falling out the taxi, dragging my clothes off and just passing out instead.

 

[APRIL]

Yeah and I always intend to do something like that, except when you're drunk you forget little details like that. I always think 'oh I'll have a pint of water before I sleep' but inevitably I end up falling out the taxi, dragging my clothes off and just passing out instead.

Eeek! Have a drink then a glass of water, have a drink then... etc. Keeps you from getting to sloshed too fast too.

I'm not a pro drinker (or a fan of it), but thats how I would do it.

 

[Asbo]

the day I start alternating drinks with water in a pub is the day I stop going to pubs.

 

[Asbo]

lemonade all the way.

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

the day I start alternating drinks with water in a pub is the day I stop going to pubs.

True. The only time I've ever sat with a glass of water is when I'm too hungover to contemplate anything, but even in that state I usually order a G&T instead. A G&T would properly sort me out I think.