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I haven’t- although I am self employed!
One of the best companies I ever worked for included 3 duvet days in the perks they offered. If you didn’t fancy going into work one day, you could just call the office and say you were taking one of your duvet days. We were expected to be sensible about it – not taking them when we were on deadline, or…[Read more]

No. I’m another who keeps on working even when I’m sick – I work from home so I’m not infecting anyone!

In your position I’d be able to ask my manager for a day’s leave & make the time up on eves/weekends but my hours can be totally flexible.

Once.

It was my FIL’s 70th birthday and he and MIL were coming to our house (a 250 mile trip) to celebrate. Unknown to him, we had invited the whole family for a surprise party on the Saturday (his actual birthday). I phoned in ill on the Friday so I could spend the day making all the food in preparation for the party on the Saturday and getting…[Read more]

No. I feel bad enough taking sick days when I’m actually sick, and I couldn’t deal with the anxiety of being found out.

My company are really approachable though, could you ask them for a day unpaid leave, or ours allow us to trade in additional holiday so we can buy and sell days on a divisional level- might be worth looking at?

Once…..

I hated the job, I hated the people there. I was bloody miserable.

Holiday was outside term time only, students had finished although the term technically did not for another couple of weeks. Other staff were allowed holiday (if the face fitted, the rules seemed to be made of rubber!). I was not allowed to take a days holiday. I didn’t…[Read more]

Like you I couldn’t do it. If I did then I would either trip myself up or be the one to stand in front of the camera and get caught that way

and why is it socially acceptable to encourage a driver to drink…

Colleague: Drink?
Me: lemonade thanks.
Colleague, don’t you want something stronger?
Me: no thanks I’m driving
Colleague: you can have one, what do you want?

This annoys me so much. If I’ve said no, stop trying to convince me it’s ok to drink & drive. The particular colleague…[Read more]

I’ll be honest, I will have one single spirit and mixer and drive, however I won’t have a half pint or wine or anything as they affect me more. I have *touch wood* never had an accident. I’m not saying it’s okay, everyone has their own opinion about it, I just enjoy the taste of it, and I can have one so.. I do. Although I go out probably once a…[Read more]

If I’m driving- even if it’s only driving home in the morning- I will not have a single drink. Even one drink affects me far too much to consider driving; my inability to resist crisps after a glass of wine is testament to that.

One of the things that scares me the most is the amount of people who think it’s ok to drive jet-lagged or straight off…[Read more]

I don’t drink alcohol at all, much to my OH’s delight as he never has to worry about whose driving home but as a teenager I knew many adults who would drink and drive without giving it a second thought but I am glad to say that I now have a 19 year old son who passed his test at 17 and I always make a point of telling him not to think of having a…[Read more]

I know people on both sides of the coin.

My brother will ALWAYS leave his car the morning after the night before regardless of how inconvenient it is (and me and my family have made it clear that we will always pick each other up whatever the time, I have said this to friends, I would rather be woken up at 3am to pick you up than you drink and…[Read more]

There was a guy near here who was successfully prosecuted for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart (well, drunk is an understatement actually, he was passed out asleep on the cart and the horse was merrily taking them both home). Unfortunately however, nobody had updated the fine from when that was presumably a common offence, so he was fined…[Read more]

I only drove drunk once, but in my defence the police told me to do it! We had gone on a run with friends who were motorbikers (this is many years ago by the way)to Whitby and were camping on the Abby Plain. The group were attacked in the tents and the police told us to take the injured to A&E, when we explained that we were drunk, they told us to…[Read more]

When my husband was a teenager, he was “warned” by the police for riding a horse while drunk.
I visited a communist country in the late 70s and there if you drank any alcohol when driving and were caught you went to prison, so the young professionals I was with didn’t at all. Made up for it when not driving though.

In a way it would be simpler if…[Read more]

I’ve never been drunk in my life and I don’t drink at all now.

I find it quite worrying how dependant some people are on alcohol, ie they’ve had a bad day so will require a bottle of wine to get over it. It’s not a healthy way to be. I know this because I had the same relationship with chocolate! I had a bad day so I deserve this etc. Not…[Read more]

Can’t abide it. I have taken someone’s keys off them before now at the pub as they were going to drive home and I knew how much they had drunk.

I would have no hesitation reporting someone. An old friend of mine nearly killed himself drink driving, he got the book thrown at him understandably.

I had to cycle to work as I was too pie-eyed the…[Read more]

when i was a child i spent all the school holidays with a family on a farm.
The family is stayed with were a bit lie the darling buds of May, there was allways something going on, it was a much happier place than my own home.
there was mum,dad and four children. one night in 1982 three of the young family were killed in an accident. The driver of…[Read more]

One of the things that really shocked me when i moved here was how many english people started drinking and driving when they had never done it in England, when i asked why, the answer was always that there was almost nobody else on the roads and never any police so why did it matter. It was like they were on a permanent holiday with no care for…[Read more]

I rarely ever drink on nights out now – I live rurally & it costs an arm and a leg to get a taxi there and back. If I had a penny for everytime someone suggested ‘just have one, it won’t hurt’ I’d never worry about my pension again.

Having a friend whose relative was that was killed in a crash when the other driver had a drink but was under the…[Read more]