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Holy shit that guy is incredibly lucky he got to keep his job. Being belligerent drunk at work functions usually do not end well.
Yeah to be honest I feel like there was a decent bit of social pressure that he felt. The CEO was a fairly hard character in general but the lad in question was well liked. The "fuck off" did shock us all though.
Like none of us would have been surprised if he'd been let go but it would have affected morale generally, laws here are generally worker oriented and he was a good worker, plus the added effect of visa removal has to be part of the decision process.
The guy who wrestled him into the taxi definitely put in a good word too. He's a good soul.
Edit: the belligerence was only half the story on the negative side. We were all very embarrassed that the staff had to clean up the puke but they were absolute champions about it. I've worked as a waiter for a good few years in college and you do tend to just pass these things off as best you can, especially for large groups that are going to leave a solid tip.
I had a roommate in college who was super nice. But every time she got drunk she would black out and become someone unrecognizable. We got into a street fight outside a club once because she ran into a group of girls snorting cocaine in the bathroom and she wouldn't stop antagonizing them. Didn't remember a thing the next day.
Some people become someone completely different when they're drunk
They may not be becoming someone so different, though. Generally speaking, if someone only seems like an asshole when they're drunk they're probably just as much of an asshole when they're sober, just better at masking it.
No idea why this is such a common belief. If you're masking being a belligerent cunt, then you're not being a beligerent cunt. The only people whose behaviour I trust are those who care about their behaviour being as such - at least you know they're fucking trying
If someone gets drunk and calls me a slur, I'm going to believe that even when they're sober and acting polite they're inwardly thinking that slur about me. That is enough to make them someone I'm not going to be inclined to trust.
Yeah ok fine this is a pretty contentious point and you make the other side well. I was thinking more 'being aggressive' and such rather than 'revealing bigotism'.