2007-04-12 23:07:56 · 10 answers · asked by HappyAgain 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Thanks for your help, but I was looking for a official term. I am writing staff rules and need to say that "No employees can come to work drunk or hungover"
2007-04-12 23:50:33 · update #1
you can say:
under the effects of any drug (alcohol..)
2007-04-13 02:02:23 · answer #1 · answered by Jassy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, I know it depends on where you are writing from, but are you sure that you can tell someone not to be hungover? I mean, the drinking was done on their own time and not on the property of the business, so in a lot of places, the business would not be able to tell someone how to behave in their private life.
Also, being drunk is obviously compromising to your ability to work. But being hungover wouldn't necessarily make someone unable to perform.
Unless there is a specific legal reason why someone can't have been drinking the night before, you may get into trouble for trying to put that into the rules. And by specific legal reason, I mean something like being a bus driver or airline pilot = in those professions, the government requires sobriety.
That said, you could go with banning 'intoxication' as mentioned above.
Or you could try "Being drunk, or showing evidence of having been recently been drunk, is forbidden."
Or: "Employees are required to be sober, and fully capable of performing their jobs without any appearance of recent substance abuse, at all times."
Or: "Failure to perform ones duties due to any kind of substance abuse, or substance abuse induced illness, may be cause for dismissal."
2007-04-13 12:53:51 · answer #2 · answered by 62,040,610 Idiots 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reza Arabi Belaghi
2016-05-19 15:43:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slight indisposition.
Stomach upset.
Unless you mean hangover in the other sense of vestige, remnant, a thing inherited from earlier times.
2007-04-12 23:13:23 · answer #4 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hungover is used in a formal context aswell as informal, it is not considered a 'slang' term as such (in British English anyway), although that is its origin.
2007-04-13 04:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tired and emotional?
It is fairly used in UK, it means that someone was very drunk and suffers from the consequences!
2007-04-12 23:35:20 · answer #6 · answered by Jesus is my Savior 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
intoxicated should cover both drunk and hungover, I guess.
2007-04-13 01:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe "alcohol-induced" followed by the symptoms in question.
2007-04-12 23:10:35 · answer #8 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cruda (femenin/spanish)
Crudo (masculine/Spanish)
Crudas (femenin plural/spanish)
Crudos (masculine plural/ spanish)
2007-04-13 07:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by shkauclkl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm guilty. :)
2007-04-12 23:11:24 · answer #10 · answered by phil m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋