Remind us again will you, of just what your latest excuse for hitting the bottle is.
You've said it’s because your mother died not so long back and your father is having to spend his first Christmas without her. Would this be the same mother who spent who spent her first anniversary alone earlier this year? Following the death of her husband.
So far this year alone, from you excuse wise, we have had:
Your dog may have to be put down due to long term illness,
Your dog is undergoing further treatment, which you think you may not be able to afford. Didn't stop the drink being bought though.
Your partner is working away, leaving you on your own.
Your father dying shortly before their wedding anniversary.
Your mother dying.
And in both of these it’s the first time the other partner has had to spend it alone!
As reasons for why you were drinking.
Well, speaking for one of the many that have had your work shoved on them, due to you being unfit through drink. We have had enough of your sorry excuses. You're quite verbal in running us down in the workplace, when it suits you. But not once have you ever apologised. You were moved into the office, from a front facing role after a visitor complained about you being drunk, whilst at work.
Your recent excursion onto the shop floor, only went ahead after we'd been asked if we felt safe working around you. Despite the majority answer of NO, you were allowed back on. They then realised we'd been right all along. Earphones in & listening to music whilst at work, in a front facing job is not an image that the company wishes to be seen as approving of. That and the fact that you made so many errors was the sole cause of you going back into the office. Not what you think as your superior skills. Even there, they were relieved when you got moved out for the day. They can't just move away from you, to escape your moaning about how they are not doing their jobs to your (drunken) satisfaction.
Well this year, along with the second letter received about your drunken state whilst at work, and the letters from nearly everyone who has had to pick up after you, some times literally, we don't think you'll be here much longer. We've requested that your work be reassessed from a health & safety aspect. Ours included. We have documented, as we were requested, the number of times we have had to correct your work as well as the time taken to do so.
Pointing out that your behaviour, often to those younger than you, and always to those newer than you, here, has not been helpful. At times it has been downright dangerous. Especially when you're driving to & from work, drunk. One person reported you for your own safety & you never left her alone after you found out. You being "senior" to her gave you every right you needed to hound her out of the job.
You don't have any "problems" that causes you to reach for the bottle. Your problem is that you seek to find reasons to explain why you're hitting the bottle. Other than you have a drink problem, there are no such issues as those given, for you being drunk at work.
You lie to those who have to work with you, often doing your work. You've lied when asked why you’re drunk. The person you lie to the worst, is yourself. Like the drink, it’s not your fault. Well sorry; you're no better than anyone else here. In many ways you are actually worse. Admit that you have either a liking for drink and/or a drink problem and you'll find that there are others just like you. But that to you would mean you’re not better than everyone else.