Should I be fired?
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but on topic it is a difficult situation, if you weren't actually drunk but smelled of it they should have sent you home and told you to come back later or on you next scheduled work day. However, if you were actually drunk then I would say yes immediate firing, or in a less harsh way a "strike" were if you get more (or already had some) you would then be fired.
but on topic it is a difficult situation, if you weren't actually drunk but smelled of it they should have sent you home and told you to come back later or on you next scheduled work day. However, if you were actually drunk then I would say yes immediate firing, or in a less harsh way a "strike" were if you get more (or already had some) you would then be fired.
It all depends on where you work.
If you work in a cubical or something and it's just some dickhead bitching about it, no, that's just something they'll maybe say "We're gonna have to ask you not to do that again, please"
But if you work in a public place, like say, as a cashier, then yeah, you'll either get chewed out heavily or you will indeed be fired. They don't take that kinda shit.
If you work in a cubical or something and it's just some dickhead bitching about it, no, that's just something they'll maybe say "We're gonna have to ask you not to do that again, please"
But if you work in a public place, like say, as a cashier, then yeah, you'll either get chewed out heavily or you will indeed be fired. They don't take that kinda shit.
From the other responses I think the consensus is that smelling like alcohol when working with customers is a no no that can be easily prevented by not getting drunk the night before work.
Should you have been fired? Yeah probably. Thats what you get for getting wasted the night before you had to go to work I guess. You seriously couldn't have waited till the weekend?
EDIT: actually was this the first time this happened or have things like this occurred before?
EDIT: actually was this the first time this happened or have things like this occurred before?
You shouldn't have gotten wasted the night before. You seem like the type that in college you went to a party when you had classes the next day. (If you went to college)
I've learned from experience that it's a bad idea to go out when you have something the next day (Classes, work, something you have to get up early for).
I don't think you should be fired, but, I think that there should be consequences for your actions.
I've learned from experience that it's a bad idea to go out when you have something the next day (Classes, work, something you have to get up early for).
I don't think you should be fired, but, I think that there should be consequences for your actions.
You have a hearing soon? News flash: It is really fucking serious. Employers are not going to set up some kind of group meeting when all they're going to do is give you a light slap across the back of the head and say "You're silly, aren't you?". There is more at play than a single issue here:
You smelt of booze. Number one, and the worst (assuming your job entails PR). As plenty of other posters have said, first impressions are critical.
You weren't showered/shaved/etc -> presentable for work. I've worked in a supermarket where if you showed up with a days growth, they'd force you to buy shaving gear and shave before you can start work. It is a fair assumption that when you go to work you don't cast ANY offensive odour, whether BO or booze or sex, that you're clean shaven and wearing the appropriate uniform.
You were late. Depending on the number of employees you have on a single shift, this can range between a serious problem, or no problem at all. My current job is one where I relieve a single person - I don't show, they can't leave; other jobs I've worked, they might not even notice until they check the sign-in system.
So, you've broken three potentially important BASIC RULES of employment. If that's a problem for you after you drink, then you don't drink. Simple. If you've been there for ages, and are a good employee, you'll be fine - they'll march you in to scare you. If you're new, or you're not a hard worker, or this isn't the first time you've made any of those three mistakes - you'll be out on your ass, and don't be surprised - they have a business to run.
You smelt of booze. Number one, and the worst (assuming your job entails PR). As plenty of other posters have said, first impressions are critical.
You weren't showered/shaved/etc -> presentable for work. I've worked in a supermarket where if you showed up with a days growth, they'd force you to buy shaving gear and shave before you can start work. It is a fair assumption that when you go to work you don't cast ANY offensive odour, whether BO or booze or sex, that you're clean shaven and wearing the appropriate uniform.
You were late. Depending on the number of employees you have on a single shift, this can range between a serious problem, or no problem at all. My current job is one where I relieve a single person - I don't show, they can't leave; other jobs I've worked, they might not even notice until they check the sign-in system.
So, you've broken three potentially important BASIC RULES of employment. If that's a problem for you after you drink, then you don't drink. Simple. If you've been there for ages, and are a good employee, you'll be fine - they'll march you in to scare you. If you're new, or you're not a hard worker, or this isn't the first time you've made any of those three mistakes - you'll be out on your ass, and don't be surprised - they have a business to run.
You came into work smelling of booze, and quite probably hung over, in what I can assume since you mentioned customers at all is a fairly customer-service related job. As many others have said, the first thing the customers will think if you smell of booze is "this guy's hitting the bottle at or shortly before work". They're not likely to have much faith in a business that hires and continues to employ someone like that. Frankly, a lot of places would've just outright fired you, rather than having a hearing to determine whether or not to fire you, so you got off pretty lucky. As has been said before, past history is a pretty big factor. If you've been working there a few years and this is the first time anything like this has ever happened, you'll probably get off with a warning. If you're fairly new, or haven't performed all that well in general, yeah, you're screwed.
Ugh... You had work the next morning, and yet you went out and drank enough to cause yourself to stink of it? And instead of calling in to say you were going to be late so you could wash up, you just decide to show up smelling of liquor?
You brought it upon yourself if you get fired, and quite frankly, if that's the way you're going to behave I don't think you deserved the job to begin with.
They're trying to run a business, the last thing they need is an employee showing up for work smelling like he just finished bathing in the sauce and ruining PR, something that is essential for a business to survive.
Seriously, what is up with people these days? Do they have no bloody self control? Or even common sense for that matter?
You brought it upon yourself if you get fired, and quite frankly, if that's the way you're going to behave I don't think you deserved the job to begin with.
They're trying to run a business, the last thing they need is an employee showing up for work smelling like he just finished bathing in the sauce and ruining PR, something that is essential for a business to survive.
Seriously, what is up with people these days? Do they have no bloody self control? Or even common sense for that matter?
You're lucky to even get a hearing. I would have fired an employee for that on the spot. 1 hour per drink is the average "recovery" time. So if you had 12 drinks over 4 hours, that would allow you an 8 hour sleep to sober up. Most people I know who get shit-faced don't do that kind of math after the 3rd drink. Chances are, you were probably still legally drunk when you got to work but just couldn't tell anymore.
If you get fired, well... learn from it.
If you get fired, well... learn from it.
