smoking and working

jebus · Heavy User Joined: Apr 26, 2006 Posts: 116 Location: USA

velocitor its actually some sort of referencing

its what you do when you copy someone elses content

i had a moment yesterday when I remembered Viz comic from when I was a kid, and the rediculous stuff in it, so I had a look and yes some of the juvenile humour is still funny for me anyway.

i thought it was spot on for smoking at work, don't you think?

so i posted a few to lighten things up a little, make sense now?

Velocitor · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:40 pm

OK......

"its what you do when you copy someone elses work"

i guess youre taking other peoples work and posting it i assume.

rightyoh.
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shivan · Enthusiast Joined: Oct 01, 2006 Posts: 66 Location: nz

Smoking and working at work can be dodgy so i have never done it on purpose, i got called into work and it wasnt cool.

Doing gardening, painting or any horrible boring jobs at home it is mint. I find that i can do somethings for hours with enough 'motivation' like i replanted my back yard with grass, and probaly spent 60 70 hours doing it, it was so much fun

noyzee · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:34 am

Don't ever milk cows stoned!!! My mate and I went and visited a couple other friends and ended up indulging, ... then we realised that we had to go and milk the cows. Normally he and I are a great team in the cow shed... not this day... LOL we never did it again...the milking dragged, the cows stank even more than usual... it seemed as if we would never get out of there!!!

I used to smoke at work when I was a care giver, I was in charge of the house, and would wait until everyone was 'doing their own thing' then have a pipe... but I wouldn't do it anymore for many reasons.. one being the absolute panic when my manager turned up for a 'surprise visit' just after a sesh... and the paraonoia is just not worth it. It never affected my responsibility toward the girls in my house and I quite often dealt with 'emergencies' while under the influence...

ReeferMadness · Enthusiast Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Posts: 89 Location: NZ

I work as a geek, doing geekly things on computers and explaining to the not-so-geek how to do geeky things too. I don't often get wasted at work, but when I do I quickly lose interest in the clients.

Me: "Yup.... mhhmmm... I see.... yup...."
Client: "So that's the problem, how do I fix it?"
Me: (Realising I haven't heard a word they said) "Er, um, ah, have you restarted your computer?"

Coding stuff while wasted seems to work okay. I like to tinker with stuff when I'm wasted. I'm not a real programmer but I did a bugfix while stoned, and looking at the code I wrote I can't for the life of me figure out how it works... but it does....
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WitchBitch · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:51 pm

I used to smoke regularly back about 4 years ago. Since I had a laced drink in 2003 I haven't touched pot, or drank alcohol in a pub.

Yeah I smoked before I went to work, and it made the day go faster, it was even better when I was hungover too (apart from the smell of food, I worked in a cafe).

Now I try to tell my 17 year old son (oh I have had him under house arrest for 6 months because he started drinking and drugs at 13) to smoke the gunja once a week, to get a good buzz. The biggest mistake I just made was, a mate gave me some good Waiheke Gold and I let my son smoke it, since I don't (at the moment), and now he is hooked again. His mood sux!!! So as a good mother, I have banned him, and will give him enough for his pipe once a week, but first I have to wean him.

Once he goes back to work, maybe his mood will change too, but he knows the way I feel when he is stoned and working. He is currently back at course to finish off some credits, and he smokes with his mates (I can't stop him because I'm not with him 24/7). He does things that make me shiffer.

He has to earn his toke........take your meds (psychosis)......behave.......etc blah blah (as he calls it)

But when he goes back to work he knows the consequences (drug testing is rampant).......His choice of course......criminal record, jail whatever......Is he harming anyone when he smokes? No, just his moods are bad. The only person he would hurt would probably be himself, with the tools he works with.

So let the ganju be smoked in peace, let the cops catch the robbers and legalise the weed.

Tony · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:08 pm

cow · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:35 am

WitchBitch said:

cow · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:27 am

When I was younger, I used to get high at work all the time. It didn't matter because I really didn't care about my jobs then - I knew they were only short-term and I had nothing to lose. In fact, some of my bosses have been okay with me smoking all day as long as the work was done by the end of the day. I have been stoned while doing the following jobs: chef (in my past life), ski coach, landscaper, carpenters hand, delivery driver, call-centre operator, bartender. Ski coach was the best one to do high and bartender was a close second.

Now that I have a "career" instead of a "job", I take my work far more seriously and I strive to do my best. If I am stoned, I can't do my best work. (This is just me personally. I have heard countless others who say they are more creative/thoughtful/perceptive when they're stoned.) When I get stoned I like to relax, but my workplace is very fast-paced and not very relaxing at all.

Part of the reason my evening joint or bong is so damned good is because I don't smoke at work. If I spent my whole day high, I wouldn't have anything to look forward to when I came home - it would just be more of the same. To me, smoking pot would be less "special" if I did it all the time. When I used to get high all day, I had to smoke massive joints at home just to notice any effect because I was so used to being high.

Other people have said that they like to work around their house stoned, and I agree with that, because I can work at my own pace. Another thing I really like to do is spend Sunday cooking - either inside or on the BBQ - and I love to smoke while I cook. I never used to smoke while I cooked professionaly but when I cook at home it's great (as long as I have food left when I'm done to feed my wife).

That's my 2 cents.
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WitchBitch · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:57 pm

Hey cow

My son got involved with the wrong friends when he was at intermediate. His stepfather and I found out that he was drinking and doing drugs, and so put him voluntarily under house arrest with the permission of CYFS and the police. He was escorted to and from school, had no life after school, and that was for 6 months. All was going fine until he started high school. The wrong friends again, only this time (I only found out this year) he did cocaine, p, ecstacy, Heroin, Pot, and the booze. I did not know what was going on, as I trusted him enough not to do that. His whole attitude etc started to change. We thought after we had moved cities, that all the drug thing was behind us. NO!!! He was a magnet. He started wagging school, and smoking pot more often. His temper got the better of him and he vandalized his room. He decided to move out and live with a friend and his mother (He was 15 at the time).

Now this woman is very rich, very well known in our city and I thought he would be ok. WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS. After 2 months he looked like a streetkid, skinny pimply and badly dressed. I then got a phone call from the police saying that he and his 4 mates were caught vandalising council property. We had a meeting with the Youth AID officer, CYFS and concerning family members.

He admitted he had an addiction problem. He stopped the drugs, stopped the alcohol and was on continuous watch. He finally realized that what he did was a major "F***K UP". He got himself into a full-time well paying job and then his boss got him into the weed again.

I told him, the only way he was going to do any of that if he moved out. He is an independant 17 year old, he still lives at home but pays his own way. I scared him off when I told him that some-one narked and that we were to have no pot at home. That worked.

My friend who supplied me with the small amount of pot, did so to see if I would give it a try for pain relief.

My son, who is under the guidance of Mental Health, told his shrink that he was smoking again. He was told to do it in small amounts at night to help him relax and sleep. What I gave him would have lasted him a week. He smoked in 2 days. My stupid fault for trusting an addict.

I have now weaned him off, he has to take his anti-psychotic drugs and is allowed to have it once a week. THAT IS ALL......

I can't be with him 24/7, I can only do my best at home and in the family environment.

You know what cow, my son came home today and told me "Mum, I did not get stoned, all the others did, but I refused". I believe him.

He is a good kid, and no matter what parents try to do, kids will be kids. Some are into more dangerous stuff and some are dealing at the age of 10. My son, he smokes pot.......full stop.......he refuses to touch the other "Shit" because he said it "F***ks him up".

If I condoned any-one smoking it, then I am a hypocrite. I tried it at 17, I left home and was working and independent. It was great.

When I found out I was pregnant with my oldest boy at the age of 25 (married for 7 years), I did not drink or smoke. I was like that for 8 years.

Having been in an abusive relationship and finally having the guts to leave, I finally emancipated myself and did what I should have done when I was 18. That was a mistake......Drugs, Alcohol and Anorexia do not mix.

I never did smoke it like an addict after a major operation when I was 22, when I buzzed out, I panicked and stopped. Then in 1997 I got introduced to it by friends, but then I smoked maybe twice a week and on weekends when I had no kids at home.

This is not a sob story, but maybe some-one can relate to that.

How many parents try their best and their kids still end up being on the streets? Social status has nothing to do with it. We don't live in a state house, we are not on the dole, we don't deal in drugs, I am not a prostitute, I am not a single mother, I am not rich, I am not poor. I did not leave school at 14, I have a degree in Art, I am a qualified chef and I have a degree in Fashion.

The richest thing in my life is the health and wellbeing of my sons, the love of my husband and a roof over my head. Money is for spending not hording. We survive.

My boys have been taught how to think for themselves and how to take responsibility for their actions. I think they will become fit members of society that know how to be independent.

So cow, before you judge parents on how the kids behave, think of the parents, of what they have to put up with when their kids change and start doing the wrong things.

Now my sister-in-law is a good example of BAD Parenting. 15 year old son, drug dealer, 14 year old son, drug addict, 20 year old daughter, solo mum, 11 year old daughter abused. Mother....drug addict, alcoholic and prostitute. Her kids have been under the care of CYFS for all their lives.

cow · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:38 am

WitchBitch · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:42 pm

WHEN MY SON WAS 13 HE WAS UNDER HOUSE ARREST FOR 6 MONTHS. There was no tolerance to drugs what so ever. He was clean until he went to high school. I did NOT give my son drugs while under house arrest.
quote from cow - Giving minors (who have a drug problem) drugs while they are under house arrest is the clear path to independence. You're setting a good example. Keep it up.

A minor is under the age of 18? Then why was the legal drinking age once up a time 20? So why can 16 year olds get married with parent permission? At 16 he was legally allowed to leave school and home. So tell me, what is a minor?

He is 17, he is legally allowed to leave home, have sex and drive a car.
But he can't drink until he is 18 and can't vote until he is 18.

I think under supervision he should be allowed to smoke once a week.

We have good communication between our children. My son has told me everything has done between the ages of 13 and 16. I made him go to Addiction Resources for his addiction last year.

So, cow once you have had kids and they are in their teens, do you think you will be open with them? Or do you think you will control them? Controlling kids only make them rebel.........Are you going to spend 24 hours a day with your kids and make sure they aren't naughty?
I am totally against youngsters smoking pot, especially while they are still at primary and intermediate. But once they have been given responsibility and trust while they are at high school, they make their own choices. Under 17 is too young. Some parents throw their teenagers out of the house when they become a handful or turn them over to CYFS, I know because we were also caregivers for the department.

My parents taught me right from wrong and were open with me, they made me make my own choices, but I never did pot until I left home and was independent. I have not touched any of the other hard drugs because that is just for losers.

So it seems like cow is saying that its ok for him to have done the whacky weed when he was young but its not ok for others to do it now.
quote - When I was younger, I used to get high at work all the time. It didn't matter because I really didn't care about my jobs then - I knew they were only short-term and I had nothing to lose. In fact, some of my bosses have been okay with me smoking all day as long as the work was done by the end of the day. I have been stoned while doing the following jobs: chef (in my past life), ski coach, landscaper, carpenters hand, delivery driver, call-centre operator, bartender. Ski coach was the best one to do high and bartender was a close second.

It seems like cow has grown up and made the right choices, and so will others when they decide what they are doing is maybe not the right choice and change their lives. And is just what my 17 year old has done. He would have been under the care of YJ if we had not intervened. He would not be living at home if I was a parent who did not care and support their child.

Is my son a bad apple, no. He did the wrong things and learned from them.
Will he commit robberies, murder or any crime to keep up a p habit?.......I pray he has learned right from wrong and decide not to make those choices........but then no-one knows what their child is going to turn out like when they are 20, 25 etc?

So cow are you reading this after you have had your nightly bong? Are you thinking and reading my statements clearly?

Like I said, I am straight, I don't smoke the stuff now and I don't think I will, but I have nothing against you having your bong but maybe you should read with a clear mind. I mean THC is a mind altering substance.[/b]

FascistAnderton · Chronic Pothead Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 503

teenager doing coke n heroin. fuck he sounds like the man. tell him to pm me, i could have a job for him

cow · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:04 pm

Sorry, but as far as I know it's NORML policy that drugs aren't for minors - full stop. And yes, I did drugs when I was a minor, but I won't be supplying my kids with drugs, just as my parents didn't supply me with drugs. Does that make me a hypocrite? I don't think so. Parents do lots of things as a kid that they don't want their own kids doing. Parents need to act like parents, not big kids. Kids need to be shown what to do, not told what to do. If my kids discover drugs for themselves, I will talk to them about the risks, but I will never give them their weekly rations. Drugs are for adults and in this country (as in most countries in the world) adults are 18+.

Obviously your child (and I mean child, not adult) has made some mistakes. We all make mistakes and that's cool - it's how we learn. I'm just saying that I don't support kids on drugs and neither does NORML. Also, kids currently in the care of a psychiatrist might not benefit from their mother giving them drugs. What does your son's shrink think about you giving him pot? Based on the very limited knowledge I have of this situation, I think your child would benefit from a shift in focus away from drugs. Rewarding him by giving him his weekly sesh isn't helping him lead a balanced life - it's creating a focus on drugs and creating anticipation around his next high (which, supervised or not, it isn't helping him combat his drug problem or the problem with his anti-social behaviour). If you want to reward your son for good behaviour, let him sign up for a soccer team or join a band and let him act like a kid instead of gettin ghim high. Give him a natural high from his achievements, not a 30 minute stone that'll make him sleepy after. He can make his own decisions to get high later in life when he's all grown-up.

However, it is your child and it is none of my business, so fuck it. It's your right as a parent to raise your kids your way. I shouldn't get tell you how to be a mom, so I won't. Ignore me. I just hope that as a state caregiver, you don't give anyone else's kids pot. That would not be cool.
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bigtoker · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:03 pm

Yea like Shivan said it's pretty dodgy and also pretty disrespectful in a way, but is a great time killa and that can be used even at work... make them boring jobs a lil more interesting.


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