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Drinking on the job

I was closing the restaurant tonight and two of the owners were hanging out at the bar getting drunk. I was waiting for the last few tables to wrap up (they were sweet people hanging out; no problems there), but one owner insisted everyone do shots. I went along for a bit and drank the equivalent of a shot and a half. He of course was doing this round after round. After the tables had left, I was doing the last of my closing duties, trying to go home, and I had to shoot the owners down maybe a dozen times to do shots. I specifically told them I had to drive across town to get home, yet they still tried to goad me into drinking. Listening to their dumb conversations at the bar and having to shoot them down over and over again was exhausting. It was an intense…


I was closing the restaurant tonight and two of the owners were hanging out at the bar getting drunk. I was waiting for the last few tables to wrap up (they were sweet people hanging out; no problems there), but one owner insisted everyone do shots. I went along for a bit and drank the equivalent of a shot and a half. He of course was doing this round after round. After the tables had left, I was doing the last of my closing duties, trying to go home, and I had to shoot the owners down maybe a dozen times to do shots. I specifically told them I had to drive across town to get home, yet they still tried to goad me into drinking. Listening to their dumb conversations at the bar and having to shoot them down over and over again was exhausting. It was an intense night and I just wanted it to be done. No moral to the story here, just a late night after work rant.

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