News · moment 16 of 23
The Article on Restaurant Workers and Substance Abuse
from Free SBF | The Tim Dillon Show #327 · #327
4 min
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He reads from an article about waitstaff drinking and drug use on the job, riffing on cocaine culture in restaurants versus Wall Street and joking that crack is now an outdated drug compared to meth and pills.
- Tim's former coworker drank so heavily during a waitressing shift she stumbled visibly through service and was fired that night.
- The staff gathered at a casino Sportsbook after closing to decompress with drinks, cigarettes, and video poker, trading war stories about coworkers using drugs on the job.
- Tim knows a woman in the restaurant business who will use any drug available—describing her as a garbage head who just wants to be fucked up all the time.
- There's a curse about working in restaurants and catering where anyone with a predisposition to addiction will end up smoking crack.
- A young waiter Tim knows regularly texts him saying he's on so many drugs, which is treated as normal and unremarkable in that profession.
- Being extremely fucked up on your day off as a waiter and texting people about it is a well-established, normalized part of the job, like setting up a crypto office outside America.
- Tim observes that certain professions have people who are really fucked up all the time, while other jobs don't—it's job-specific.
- Without union representation, restaurant jobs have poor pay, inconsistent schedules, no insurance, and workers can be easily replaced when substance abuse affects performance.
- Tim pushes back on the observation that waiters use lots of drugs, asking why Wall Street cocaine use isn't discussed the same way, and notes he never did drugs as a waiter.
- Tim jokes that waiters love doing cocaine—just admit they enjoy throwing spinach dip on a table and then putting a key up their nose.
- Nobody even does crack anymore; it's retro—everybody's on meth or pills now, Tim's doctor confirmed.
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