Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
... in a downward self-destructive spiral potentially involving crack/cocaine?
So I got to this jobsite and things seem to have been moving along pretty steadily. I started at the same time as three other guys, two of them are my age, the third is in his 50s I'd estimate. Now this guy, his name is Warren, he's an alright guy. We talk about guitars (he plays one), baggin girls (he's separated from his wife and trying to get back into dating) and just general bullshit. The only issue was that he really really put himself out there with stories about how his wife used to make him miserable and shit like that. So, being typical construction guys, the other dudes around the office bust his balls at every possible opportunity, it's fucking hilarious what they do to him, but I never participate, it's not cool in my book.
Well it all started last week, when apparently, he didn't make it into work because his wife punched him in the eye and told him she wants a divorce. He calls the office at around 8:30 AM drunk and says he won't be in. Monday he shows up late, and is all over the fucking place. Literally he is running up and down the halls and totally full of energy, to the point where he almost got into a fight with one of the subcontractor's foremen. Later on in the afternoon though, he totally disappeared. Same thing happened Tuesday and yesterday, however, yesterday our project exec was lookin for him, calling him up for like an hour and he was nowhere to be found. So today, same thing, he shows up at 9:00 AM (Work starts at 7:00 AM) full of energy, sniffling, snorting, and thumbing his nose, as usual. After lunch, I found him in my office laid out in my chair with his head back and his mouth open dead asleep. Took a while to wake him up fully, but even at that point he was just about passing out while I spoke to him.
I didn't even think of drugs until I was speaking with one of the security officers in the building. He'd seen Warren around and his best guess is that it's crack/cocaine. I couldn't even believe it when he told me, I was hoping that he was just drinking a bit too much coffee in the morning after sleepless nights. I mean c'mon, his wife did ask for the divorce. The more I observe him the more believable it is becoming. He had told another co-worker that he used to dabble in it back in the 70s, he's been borrowing money from everyone in the office, 20 bucks at a time, not a single one of us has been paid back, meanwhile we all just got paid on the 31st and he makes more than a lot of us, and he disappears for hours at a time.
I mean I don't want to outright ask him if he's on it, nor is it my business, but the man is hanging onto his job by a thin thread, his wife just left him, the guys at work fucking rail him at every possible turn, and if he is into drugs, this could be the beginning of the ruination of his life. I'm a pretty nice and easy going guy so people usually take advice from me, what exactly do I say to this man to try and help him out? ...Or should I just stay out of it? I know it's none of my business but I really hate to see someone flush their life down the shitter.
So I got to this jobsite and things seem to have been moving along pretty steadily. I started at the same time as three other guys, two of them are my age, the third is in his 50s I'd estimate. Now this guy, his name is Warren, he's an alright guy. We talk about guitars (he plays one), baggin girls (he's separated from his wife and trying to get back into dating) and just general bullshit. The only issue was that he really really put himself out there with stories about how his wife used to make him miserable and shit like that. So, being typical construction guys, the other dudes around the office bust his balls at every possible opportunity, it's fucking hilarious what they do to him, but I never participate, it's not cool in my book.
Well it all started last week, when apparently, he didn't make it into work because his wife punched him in the eye and told him she wants a divorce. He calls the office at around 8:30 AM drunk and says he won't be in. Monday he shows up late, and is all over the fucking place. Literally he is running up and down the halls and totally full of energy, to the point where he almost got into a fight with one of the subcontractor's foremen. Later on in the afternoon though, he totally disappeared. Same thing happened Tuesday and yesterday, however, yesterday our project exec was lookin for him, calling him up for like an hour and he was nowhere to be found. So today, same thing, he shows up at 9:00 AM (Work starts at 7:00 AM) full of energy, sniffling, snorting, and thumbing his nose, as usual. After lunch, I found him in my office laid out in my chair with his head back and his mouth open dead asleep. Took a while to wake him up fully, but even at that point he was just about passing out while I spoke to him.
I didn't even think of drugs until I was speaking with one of the security officers in the building. He'd seen Warren around and his best guess is that it's crack/cocaine. I couldn't even believe it when he told me, I was hoping that he was just drinking a bit too much coffee in the morning after sleepless nights. I mean c'mon, his wife did ask for the divorce. The more I observe him the more believable it is becoming. He had told another co-worker that he used to dabble in it back in the 70s, he's been borrowing money from everyone in the office, 20 bucks at a time, not a single one of us has been paid back, meanwhile we all just got paid on the 31st and he makes more than a lot of us, and he disappears for hours at a time.
I mean I don't want to outright ask him if he's on it, nor is it my business, but the man is hanging onto his job by a thin thread, his wife just left him, the guys at work fucking rail him at every possible turn, and if he is into drugs, this could be the beginning of the ruination of his life. I'm a pretty nice and easy going guy so people usually take advice from me, what exactly do I say to this man to try and help him out? ...Or should I just stay out of it? I know it's none of my business but I really hate to see someone flush their life down the shitter.
