Hungover in work!

I make a point of not going into work hungover. Just not worth it.

I usually end up getting into work in the still pissed stage, the first few hours are a mix of thinking im doing what i should and spells of trying to fight the sleep (you know the one when your eyes are closing but you try to keep them open, but you can't!!). Once i make it passed not falling asleep the hunger will kick in, usually followed by a breakfast roll, or at the very least a pack of rashers. During the roll i will then recollect on the first few hours, thinking did i do x or y?? Then frantically checking, and realising i did but cant for the life of me remeber doing it.

As for disguising it, there is no disguising it, fortunately i work in a place where there is most of the time me and one other person. Usually the first question i get asked is "Out last night??" followed by a an "ugh" sound and a half-nod. I've done the bathroom thing a couple of times, best thing to do is turn off the light allows you to get into a more comfortable position as you dont have to cover your eyes. Recently enough though, i have had a double red-bull and vodka while out, then when i got home a good 3/4 pints of water before bed, and the next day i've been grand, in fact i believe i worked better than if i hadnt been out.

I dont hide it, I just suffer through and bitch about it all the time.

Being in work drunk is fun though, specially when ya get away with it... not like the last time!

i usually get my hang overs after work... I test drink for a living! (nah i dont but imagine that!)

I would do my best to get off early or have an extended lunch break. Then i leg it to my car, drop 2 panadol, and sleep! I have a hot mug flask thing that keeps tea VERY hot for a good while, i fill that before i go to my car, then i drink it all on my way back to the office!

IMO The best cure for a hang over is getting a 1-2 pints of water down you before bed... "lucky you for being able to remember that". No, i leave the bottle there before bed! Take 2 panadol before sleep, set the alarm an hour early, take more panadol, go to work, pray you make it to the lunch time ritual! If you manage that, its clear sailing, and tbh, im fresh by the time i get off work - which is when it matters most!

Thats how i did it back in the day anways - i reserve drinking to special events these days ^^

Robbo wrote:

You're not a Paris based royal chauffeur, are you?

Word to the wise, avoid the tunnels my friend.

Oh, too soon Robbo!


I'm lucky enough where I work we always go to breakfast at 9 and you can usually go on a message after that and really take the piss. The majority of people I work with usually leave just after lunch as well, which sounds like a good idea!

hungover is bad but if you drink until you have to leave to go to work thats where you know that its all gone horribly wrong.

Few years back working for a UK company here in dublin and didnt have paddys day or the day after off because they wouldnt give it (company closed down )

anyway drank from when i finished till 8 in the morn then went to work...

irishbird wrote:

oh usually come in at 10am, go to the park between 12-2pm and go home at 4pm

Where is this magical workplace you speak of?

I am absolutely wrecked here at the minute but that will usually subside around lunchtime.

anniehoo wrote:

What do people do to disguise the fact theyre hungover in work? Curious cos where i work we've the same amount of disabled bathrooms than non-disabled ones on each floor...theyre massive so have often "gone on a message" for an hour, but secretly had a little kip!!! What does everyone else do to get through the hazy 8 hours? And before anyone goes pc mad..we have had one disabled person in the building in 4 years!!

You've gone into the disabled toilet & slept for an hour? Theres something really wrong there.

When in my early 20s, and a divil for going on the lash, i worked in the stores dept of a large production company. There were about 7 of us in the stores
and it was cool to be hanging. There was very restricted access to the stores
so it was cool to go up to the mezz level where we kept all the packaging stuff. Just make a bed out of big rolls of bubble wrap and sleep your little head away....
Cant do it now tho, just takes me much longer to get over hangovers (mid 30s) altho was at a works do recently on a thursday night, up drinking til 5ish, in work at 9 with a head like Oliver Plunkett, not a very pleasant experience

Kenny 5 wrote:

LOL @ CSG going to the Blacker, I can understand from the perspective of the cheap drink but if it was full price there's not a chance I'd go in there.

Was in coppers last night myself, rather drunk and now really really tired............roll on tonight for more scoops SCOOPS!!!!!!!

LOL
I used to go to Dhulaigh, and went to the blacker almost every day, but I haven't been back once since leaving the college.

Like you said, great for the cheap booze, but my God ,its some hole!