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Addiction at Work
Addiction can crush us in an instant at any moment. We “think” that if we are not cautious, our professional and personal relationships, friendships and the respect from our peers could be in jeopardy. Therefore we do all kinds of things to mask our addiction. We give gifts to people at work who might not really want them from us and make compliments that are resented because our behavior is obvious to everyone except to us.
We play this game of charades until one day our boss calls us into his or her office and points out that we need to either get help or get fired. Many addicts agree to do what it takes, making every extravagant promise so not to lose our job. We often don’t realize that the writing is already on the wall and that our being let go is inevitable unless we take immediate and appropriate steps to curb our addiction.
One way to do this is to begin taking voluntary drug tests and show results to the employer. At the same time we must learn what our behavior patterns are at work and at home so that we can get sober and avoid the humiliation of being fired because of drug addiction.
Some of us are too sick however to understand that we have to change. We keep on playing the same games at work sometimes for years and years, thinking our fellow co-workers are conspiring against us or don’t seem to notice. We “think” that we are “not really hurting anyone.”
Then one day we crash the company car while driving under the influence. We stay late at the office and decide to go on a drug binge. We pass out and are found in the morning by our co-workers. We harass others at work because “we think we can.” Or we may find intimacy at work in the “wrong place at the wrong time” and get fired on the spot.
After we are fired because of our behavior, we must now face the domino effect of how our family sees us, how our friends see us, our peers and most of all how we see ourselves.
When addicted we dare not look.