drugs

i have twice worked with people who are crazy for prescription drugs.

1) i was working in a record store. one of my co-workers would spend all day on the phone trying to track down drugs. valium, percocet... i don't know. whatever he could get his hands on. he never did any work. he just called his 'sources' all day long. we all were totally annoyed by this guy, but he was --believe it or not-- the assistant manager, and therefore he was kind of hard to get rid of.

2) at a totally different job, a co-worker would notice medicine sitting on my desk and ask what it was, eyes greedily dancing over the bottle. other co-workers would know that, after an injury or surgery, any remaining pain-killers should be offered to this person. she'd sometimes ask for them, if you didn't volunteer outright.

3) there really isn't a 3rd instance of co-worker drug abuse, but i thought i'd mention the time a bottle of oxycodone disappeared from my bathroom closet after an out-of-town friend visited.