Fortunately, I’ve never gotten into hot water since I began my “real” professional career. When I was in my early 20’s, however, I was working for a catering company waiting tables at weddings. It was a fun job, I worked with a bunch of hot girls, and was making some pretty good $ under the table. Sweet gig.
Anyway, about half way through the summer they hired this creepy bartender dude who fed us drinks all night long (I think he was trying to impress the young girls). Many of us were putting away 8-10 drinks per shift. I have no idea how the boss didn’t just notice that we were all hammered.
So, an anonymous co-worker snitched on the bartender, and my boss got him to confess and give names or he’d call the police on him for serving under age kids.
I remember like it was yesterday. Boss called me in to his office when I arrived to work. He asked me if I knew anything about people drinking at work. I knew something was up, so I just admitted to everything. Worst part about it was that he knew I was drunk ? the night of one wedding when I drove the cube truck with all the catering stuff back to the restaurant to unload. I ended up backing into the dumpster and put a huge dent in the rear end ??
He chewed my ass out FIERCELY, but miraculously I didn’t lose my job. Worked there for 4 or 5 years until grad school actually.