The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

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Post by Wrathbone » Fri Nov 29, 2024 8:02 am

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She is still on shaky ground as it was a work event, I have fired people before for behaviour outside the office (in fairness on one occasion I caught two of my sales team blatantly snorting coke in the loo of a very posh golf resort, and the other again a salesperson got within a rizla paper of punching my boss, so neither a huge surprise).

If nothing else, someone needs to take her aside and remind her of acceptable behaviour towards her colleagues.
Yep. Apparently someone reported her behaviour to our product manager (who used to be her line manager too) and he's furious. Not sure if anything formal is going down but he's no doubt had a word with her.

I did wonder if she'd done a line of coke or two before leaving the office, as she was pretty heightened and had obviously lost any semblance of a filter.

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Post by Raid » Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:49 am

Is coke really that widespread these days? I feel like it used to be a fringe drug synonymous with rich banker types, but it almost seems to have replaced weed in terms of amount of use.

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Post by Animalmother » Fri Nov 29, 2024 12:20 pm

Raid wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:49 am
Is coke really that widespread these days? I feel like it used to be a fringe drug synonymous with rich banker types, but it almost seems to have replaced weed in terms of amount of use.
I think it is very widely used by lots of people these days. She sounds like a nightmare, anyone that behaves like an asshole then tries to play the race card is a special kind of shitebag.

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Post by Mantis » Fri Nov 29, 2024 12:53 pm

It is absolutely everywhere now. It's entered the social media meme zeitgeist where people just brazenly joke about how much of it they do. I've seen so much use on nights out, particularly the further south I am.

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Post by Raid » Fri Nov 29, 2024 1:15 pm

I can't imagine how stupid you'd have to be to take coke before a work's party. If you think you need drugs to get you through one just don't bloody go.

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Post by Snowy » Fri Nov 29, 2024 4:55 pm

Raid wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:49 am
Is coke really that widespread these days? I feel like it used to be a fringe drug synonymous with rich banker types, but it almost seems to have replaced weed in terms of amount of use.
Insanely so mate, and way more widespread than the wealthy office-jockey drug that it used to be. I read an article some years back that said that 99% of UK banknotes had cocaine and/or blood residue on them, and use to often notice old bloodstains on the edges of banknotes before they were replaced by the plastic ones.

Someone was fired from my company recently for taking it at a gathering in the head office in the centre of the London financial district, losing their filter and offering it to people they didn't know. Needless to say one of those people called them out on it and they were escorted from the building there and then. Bye bye career...
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Fri Nov 29, 2024 1:15 pm
I can't imagine how stupid you'd have to be to take coke before a work's party. If you think you need drugs to get you through one just don't bloody go.
It is so widespread people have almost accepted it as normal in some circles, Sales in particular. If you know the signs you can spot folks on it a mile away - pinprick pupils and a total inability to stop talking are the obvious ones, that's if they aren't constantly sniffing or even have the fucking stuff around their nostrils. I see it so often on nights out it barely occasions comment any more. Also the obvious signs in virtually every pub toilet, lines of suspicious residue on the cisterns etc. Lots of places these days give flat surfaces in their loos a spray of WD40 before opening each evening, as that dissolves it on contact.
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Post by ManBearSquid » Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:38 pm

I was literally offered a line of coke last week when out walking my dog.

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Post by Maturin » Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:59 pm

My brother's ex-police and he was always amazed at how many people didn't have a clue at how badly coke can potentially f*ck you up. A lot of people see it as the 'safe' hard drug or something.

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Post by Raid » Fri Nov 29, 2024 6:01 pm

ManBearSquid wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:38 pm
I was literally offered a line of coke last week when out walking my dog.
Christ. What sad lives people must leave if they want to be coked up walking their dog.

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Nov 29, 2024 6:10 pm

Raid wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2024 6:01 pm
ManBearSquid wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:38 pm
I was literally offered a line of coke last week when out walking my dog.
Christ. What sad lives people must leave if they want to be coked up walking their dog.
I'm assuming he said no :lol:

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Post by ManBearSquid » Fri Nov 29, 2024 6:47 pm

Haha your assumption is correct. The offer was downgraded to a bottle of beer when I declined the powder, followed by "I'm no a dealer, by the way, I just dabble from time to time". Aye, no worries...

I also declined the beer.

He was showing me his boxer-beagle cross (only reason he had my attention as I have a boxer and he was asking me about him) on his shite phone that took forever to load. Cue his pet-family history: wee Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde...

"Are all your pets named after criminals?"

"Aye, because my da' was a criminal!"

"Ah, well there you go, then."

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Nov 29, 2024 7:37 pm

ManBearSquid wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2024 6:47 pm
Haha your assumption is correct. The offer was downgraded to a bottle of beer when I declined the powder, followed by "I'm no a dealer, by the way, I just dabble from time to time". Aye, no worries...

I also declined the beer.

He was showing me his boxer-beagle cross (only reason he had my attention as I have a boxer and he was asking me about him) on his shite phone that took forever to load. Cue his pet-family history: wee Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde...

"Are all your pets named after criminals?"

"Aye, because my da' was a criminal!"

"Ah, well there you go, then."
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Post by Animalmother » Sun Dec 08, 2024 10:43 pm

I really miss my dog :(

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Post by Alan » Mon Dec 09, 2024 5:49 am

:cry:

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Post by Snowy » Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:38 am

:cry:

And from me AM mate
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