I've Got Someone Sacked .....

Richdog said:
IMO the OP is obviously changing the facts to make him appear in a better light... lets think about this logically. He picked up his mate/worker... and the guy waited until he got all the way to work to tell him he'd had a few beers? Unlikely. Very unlikely. As the OP originally originally said, he likely told him soon after he got in the car (because you would tell the other person how you were doing within the first couple of minutes of greeting them, its natural behaviour), and then the OP sat chewing on it uncomfortably all the way to work, before deciding to dob him in. There is no good reason whatsoever that the OP would say he was told in the car, and then change it to say that it was in fact at work, unless he was trying to make us be more forgiving. To me it seems like pretty basic psychology anyway.
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Exactly, this clearly makes the mose sense.
 
OcUk is not real life really is it? Most low paid jobs have people that turn up drunk and even drink on site! It's hardly uncommon.

My mate used to get wrecked at lunch with the ganger on the work site building houses!

I'd have judged it and if I felt he was wrecked in I'd have turned around and dropped him off at home.
 
Deluxe1 said:
I take it you have never worked as with this attitude you wouldnt last very long.
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Why? Because someone would grass me in for being a responsible employee?

I have worked and I have lost jobs as a consequence of companies having to pay for useless staff they couldn't get rid of legally.
 
mglover070588 said:
I have only read the OP as the thread is pretty long.
From that post alone, I think no wrong was done. Anyone drinking before work should be sacked. Anyone drinking before work when their job is operating machinery is a absolutely disgraceful.

You feel bad now OP, but think how bad you would feel if he had killed someone that shift.
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This tbh... The fact that the guy admitted it to a supervisor in such a blasé way perhaps highlights how little he cared about the fact he had alcohol in his system. I'm sure it happens a lot and people frequently get away with it but the OP shouldn't feel guilty. I wouldn't want to work with people who are happy to drink and then operate machinery etc...
 
Jonny ///M said:
OcUk is not real life really is it? Most low paid jobs have people that turn up drunk and even drink on site! It's hardly uncommon.

My mate used to get wrecked at lunch with the ganger on the work site building houses!

I'd have judged it and if I felt he was wrecked in I'd have turned around and dropped him off at home.
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this probably accounts for the reason the uk construction industry is more dangerous than being an infantryman.
 
krooton said:
I know I shouldn't, but why do I assume that those who cry grass/snitch are from working-class backgrounds?
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Tis not about being working class tbh... plenty of hard working, honest working class people out there.

People crying 'grass'/'snitch' are likely ******/chavs... have pickey parents, pickey mates.

Yes ****** tend to be low income people but not everyone from a low income background is a *****/chav.
 
What about people that go to the pub for a liquid lunch, no doubt all those office muppets would be up in arms if you got sacked for having a pint at dinner!
 
cheets64 said:
What about people that go to the pub for a liquid lunch, no doubt all those office muppets would be up in arms if you got sacked for having a pint at dinner!
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but a drunk office Muppet might lose some files or fall down the stairs they aren't going to send a chuck key flying into some poor sods eye.
 
Tefal said:
but a drunk office Muppet might lose some files or fall down the stairs they aren't going to send a chuck key flying into some poor sods eye.
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Robbo said:
So you're calling everyone that works in an office a 'muppet'?

Really?
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But I hear all my mates bang on about going for a pint or two at dinner, does it matter if you are working on a computer or working on an FLT, its still drinking on the job, in charge of company property. .

krooton said:
I know I shouldn't, but why do I assume that those who cry grass/snitch are from working-class backgrounds?
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So I take it you dont work for a living? Privileged or on the dole?
 
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Castiel said:
The machines are calibrated and tested. The level is Zero, in all but a single case over 2000 tests carried out all have been zero in the first test.

The one that was not register a reading of four which reduced to zero on the second test.

It is a breath test, not a blood test. You would have to have imbibed alcohol for it to register, not produced it in your body.
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As a general question, and excuse my ignorance in the matter, I've always wondered about breathalyser tests when you've literally JUST had one drink.

For example, I take a shot whisky. The only shot I've had all week. I then almost immediately get in my car, pull off, and get pulled over and breathalysed.

Because the alcohol is very fresh in my mouth, will the breathalyser go straight to red and necessitate an in-station test? Though the in-station tests also involve blowing into a machine rather than a straight blood test?
 
Pestilence said:
As a general question, and excuse my ignorance in the matter, I've always wondered about breathalyser tests when you've literally JUST had one drink.

For example, I take a shot whisky. The only shot I've had all week. I then almost immediately get in my car, pull off, and get pulled over and breathalysed.

Because the alcohol is very fresh in my mouth, will the breathalyser go straight to red and necessitate an in-station test? Though the in-station tests also involve blowing into a machine rather than a straight blood test?
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They ask if you've had a drink in the last 20 mins to allow for this.

As for the OP, you did the right thing. If some retard was stupid enough to a) drink shortly before work and b) admit it to a superior then its his own tough luck.

I worked with a lad for a year, granted he was a complete tool, who on a works night out told me, his supervisor, he was going in for his night shift at 12, waiting until everyone had gone and come back out.

I didn't think he was serious but at 12:10 he came back in to the pub, had several more drinks then returned to work where he fell asleep and then threatened his co worker if he told anyone. He was fired 2 days later!

Jobs out number employee's, if you want to keep your job then behave in such a manner. But then, if I do something wrong and get caught out I hold my hands up to it and accept the punishment. Some people feel that its always someone else's fault!
 
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