One in three hungover at their desk

[LuvPeckham]

A report on the BBC website, highlights that one in three of us are hungover at our desk, and one in ten of us may be drunk at our desk.

look around you, look to your left at the person sitting there, and to your right to the person sitting there. They obviously aren't hungover or drunk so you may be able to conclude that they are the other two who didn't go out last night !! (or didn't drink when they were out)

Don't let them get away with looking so self assured and smug.. the one on your left should by now be a useful source for a large coffee and the one on the right should be a useful source for a nice greasy bacon and egg buttie..

:)-D

[Brendan]

Who you calling pisht?

[SeanMacGabhann]

still feeling the effects of that bus journey home LuvPeckham? :)-D

[Brendan]

I love picture caption in that article, ?Workers who had drunk alcohol found it hard to concentrate.?

No shit! ::o Really?

[KalamityKel]

What's the excuse for those who haven't had alcohol tho? ;-)

[Brendan]

The girl who sits next to me just had this to say about it, ?Well if work wasn?t so boring and this dam city wasn?t so full of bars.?

[Annasfield]

Ha ha - I saw that and sent it on to my colleagues, given my state last Friday. :)-D

To be fair though, if it's a school night I do try to keep it restrained. I tend not to be too bad hangover wise, but since turning 28 last month I have noticed things begin to take a turn for the worse.... :-(

[mockney piers]

I'm in my mid 30s and still hungover from Sunday, so I can believe those stats

[Keef]

I suspect I have spent more hours hungover at my desk than not.

[Jah Lush]

Today's office piss-artists are nothing to what it was like back in the 70s when I first started working on the newspapers. By 11am most mornings there would be a bottle of Scotch on the desk and people would be banging on the door of the pub downstairs to be let in.

Actually, the bloke in the picture pouring himself a large Scotch is the dead spit of my company's soon to be retired Pensions Manager. In fact I'd swear it was him and so do all my colleagues.

[SteveT]

If that is the case Jah do not expect a cushioned retirement::o

[KalamityKel]

I work in an office of 9... last night all went out (minus one) on a "bonding" sesson with our soon to be new catering team... out of the remaining 8, 7 have made it in to the office, 3 of those are fine and not suffering one bit (although one doesn't drink alcohol), 4 have mega hangovers, by calculations on time alcohol starts moving out of your system and units per hour and the number of units consumed we figure all but 2 must still be drunk... :)) :)-D

[LuvPeckham]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> I work in an office of 9... last night all went

> out (minus one) on a "bonding" sesson with our

> soon to be new catering team... out of the

> remaining 8, 7 have made it in to the office, 3 of

> those are fine and not suffering one bit (although

> one doesn't drink alcohol), 4 have mega hangovers,

> by calculations on time alcohol starts moving out

> of your system and units per hour and the number

> of units consumed we figure all but 2 must still

> be drunk... :)) :)-D

So which one are you then... somehow I can't imagine the non drinker !!!

[KalamityKel]

I was one who wasn't suffering but must still have been intoxicated :)) hehe!

[suzilucy]

Yup.

Today I will mostly be being a one in three.

Can I go home please?

[KalamityKel]

I think this afternoon it's going to be "one in two drunk at their desk" after someone discovered several bottles of champers in the fridge... :-S

[david_carnell]

*sheepishly puts hand up*

*puts it back down again as it makes head hurt*

[suzilucy]

I'm leaving my firm today so raise a cheeky glass for me KK. I'm off to find a bed in the first aid room for a little lie down...;-)

[KalamityKel]

::o u have a first aid room AND a bed? Why on earth are you leaving the firm!

[suzilucy]

bigger bed. better firm!

>:D<

[suzilucy]

*sheepishly puts hand up*

*puts it back down again as it makes head hurt*

*whisper* I'm sorry DC and feel your pain...we must go forth and sip H two oh and eat stodge, no?

[SeanMacGabhann]

* was with dave_carnell at the time *

* but on way home was waylaid by someone else's offer of whiskey *

* so am officially in more pain than DC *

[david_carnell]

Don't give him any sympathy. He should have learnt with age. I'm still making the mistakes of youth. Like, still drinking on a school night and thinking I can get away with it!

[KalamityKel]

U mean u cant? Deary me u quite clearly need more practise! ;-)

[dulmum]

if the person opposite doesn't shut up i shan't be held responsible for my actions