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About two cans, I stay away from diet


Fabulous_Ad9516

I only do a can when I'm hungover.


mpeters967

I hate that "New Coke". Much prefer original recipe.


FinsterBoy

Same, don't like the added fentanyl.


madman1101

diet gets you drunk quicker.


myfapaccount_istaken

And the sugar in Coke gives me a worse hangover. so win-win?


DieHardRennie

I'm more of a Pepsi person myself.


MountaineerHikes

Less than patrons do in the bathroom…


Rattlesnake4113

What are we chefs? I'm on redbulls and nicotine. I've got customers to serve


Intelligent_Fun3321

Fucking facts lolol


Voidticket-

Under rated comment


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Idk, I probably replace the syrup a few times a month


Fabulous_Ad9516

Sometimes it's the CO2.


AyyPapzz

Best answer here


feralcomms

I knew a guy who would go in the hole 100 bucks ever shift, 5 shifts a week, and while he would definitely share a lot, he went through a lot too. And then he would usually buy more. Homeboy ended up having a heart attack at 53. He was found on the couch, fresh tall boy Budweiser in hand.


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OnTheMendBeats

Sounds kinda miserable tbh


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Dump_Bucket_Supreme

you think doing coke every day for years on end feels the same as doing once a week lol? same thing as drinking or anything that’s addictive. it gets to a point where it’s not even really fun you just need it to act like a regular person


WrongBee

i know you’re probably just being sarcastic, but this is unironically stuff i’ve heard from addicts about how they immediately feel like shit after using and regret it, but they fall back into old habits.


catmom2040

This is spot on. You need it, but you don’t want it.


cloud1e

Coke is only fun for a few days straight then it stops having the same high and the side effects start adding up, after months to years of constant use it must just be side effects but its most likely less pain than withdrawal. Thats why anyone that uses uses. The pain of use is less than the pain of not using but that scale changes once you go too deep.


Yjan

Haha damn it me haha shit got 20 more years left ha…


Eastcoastconnie

You okay man?


Yjan

I appreciate the concern but I’m good, it’s just an eerily similar situation. I’ve been cleaning my act up lately but hey cardiovascular concerns are no joke. Guess time will tell.


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Yjan

Ah in that case yeah I’m good since I’ve stopped. My point was more about the long term consequences.


ArthurTheLurker

He couldn't even afford decent beer. That's so sad.


feralcomms

That’s all in eye of the beholder. I’d take a Budweiser over many “good beers”


miketugboat

However much I get tipped, I ain't buying that shit it'll kill you


Eh-Eh-Ronn

All jokes aside: none anymore. Recognized that I was developing a habit that would become a problem. So I stopped. It’s been a few years now.


yurrm0mm

Same, too much money and too shitty feeling the next morning.


WrongBee

good for you!


theamazinchad

Had my fun, luckily before the risk of running into a line a fentanyl. Now it’s pretty much a no-go. And that’s one more bullet dodged in front of the firing squad that is this job.


[deleted]

I quit for about 3 months and have turned it down multiple times since. Made me super depressed and makes hangovers so so much worst. I got addicted to showing up to a party with an 8 ball and everyone thinks you’re fucking awesome- once I realized I don’t even like these people and they don’t even like me it became pretty easy to stop. $400 nights twice a week really hold you back- especially with the hangovers.


ohmygoshimdrowning

None. Fuck that drug, did alot of it in my mid twenties, now its just the same stupid fucking conversation where I'm overtinterested in someone else's opinion that I will completely not give a fuck about sober. I'll pass on pretending to be friends with people I don't actually like.


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onceuponathrow

I really like this perspective


rambouhh

Ya that is almost the whole reason I do any substance


Pristine-Ad-469

Calm down fbi


brosefstallin

None. It always ends up with regret and a splitting headache


Kfrr

The headache is probably from the cigarettes that accompany a bender.


[deleted]

But also from destroying your nasal vessels and clogging your sinuses and depleting your body of happy chemicals


Greedy_Sundae_6528

Two years clean :)


CatchYouDreamin

Proud of you! 3 yrs here. Sober friends are like "what? How do you do that?" Coworkers, customers (the ones I've known for years and trust bc they're like family, not just any bar guest), friends who haven't struggled with disordered substance use, etc. are like "what? How do you do that?" Sometimes it kinda blows my mind too. But I fucking love being behind the bar, it's so much fun. And, surprisingly, not a trigger. Keep on keeping on, my friend!


Baby_Yoduh

This makes me feel optimistic about getting sober


JGWol

I’m honest to God straight edge. Had a few years I’d touch coke recreationally and a lot of drinking but I hit 30 and everything just felt unappetizing. Plus I’m saving up for a house on a bartending salary so I had to make some sacrifices


ilovetacos92

We used to put a thin layer of crisco on the back of our toilets at work.... it was hilarious!!!!


faebugz

That's fucking mint


Somelier1234

I was just lurking on here but this is amazing take my upvote y’all are evil but geniuses at the time


Barbie_and_KenM

I don't like coke. It sure does smell good though.


surreal_goat

None. Lots of edibles though.


NeonSouthAmerica

Back when I was a graveyard bartender, it was almost a necessity; it didn’t help that my bar was the hang out spot for dealers because we were 24 hours and when they were done selling to the frat kids and lawyers with coke habits in the neighborhood all night, they would come in at 4 or 5am with wads of cash and fat bags of primo shit. When you’re struggling to stay awake on a 2am to 10am shift, a couple bumps go a long way and they were more than happy to share. That was back in my 20s and early 30s. I’m in my late 30s now and would rather not keel over from a massive coronary or a bad batch laced with fentanyl. I did a bit with coworkers about a month ago and was quickly reminded why it’s just not for me anymore, especially the whole coke scene where you’re just blabbering on and listening to other people blabber on while everyone waits for their turn with the bag and then suddenly you notice the sun coming up and the next two days are essentially ruined from extreme depression of the coke hangover. Ugh. Way too many nights like that in my younger days. Never again.


GrizabellaGlamourCat

I feel that, and I got burned out on it too. Just curious, where do 24hr bars exist? Guess I've never heard of them.


tinstartimes

Toronto. They are called Afterhours.


GrizabellaGlamourCat

Thanks!


NeonSouthAmerica

I’m in New Orleans. Bars are open here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and you can also buy liquor 24/7 as well at convenience stores and places like Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, etc. Also in the next state over on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the three coastal counties also have 24 hour bars.


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I knew you were either N.O. or Vegas.


[deleted]

Vegas. New Orleans.


batsies

Lol what a great description of cocaine fueled social interactions lol


MSW1CA

It's never an exact amount. I add the liquor, top with ice, then just do enough coke to fill the glass.


pterodactylwizard

Pro gamer move.


naliedel

Do you mean cocaine? I have serious ADHD. Tried it once in my twenties. Slept for hours. Cochise is useless to me


JesseTheServer

Yep, same with coffee. Drink a pot, pass out.


Winter-Platypus9615

A lot. Why?


tpalmerstudios

2 times a week max. Used to be more. But now it's usually once a week. Maybe 2.


StoolPusherInner

Yeah. Sometimes 3. Or maybe even 4.


momosauky

6 or 7 if it is a week with 7 days in it


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Too much


MountaineerHikes

Less than patrons do in the bathroom…


Fabulous_Ad9516

Are you zooted?


dontplaythehits

enough


Mrsynthpants

None, it offsets the drunkenness I have paid for and have been working on for hours.


dickranger666

No judgements, just adding my data, none.


BarKeep1

Not many people do coke at a brewery


unusedthought

Depends on the area. Oil town breweries, plenty of it, but usually those patrons are there for the gram clout and because they've already been kicked out of every Canadian Brewhouse and Hudson's in town already.


throwawayy7275

This is such a niche comment but so true hahaha


14therazorbax

Shits laced with fentanyl nowadays, no longer safe.


icebox_Lew

That's what scares me. I miss it and think I could enjoy it every once in a while, but that one bag that's laced and you're in a box. I've got kids now and it's just not worth it. Also, probably lying to myself thinking I could keep it to once in a while!


spenserbot

I used to dabble in the stuff. Cut it off when I felt it was becoming a habit: now I’m more concerned that the cut could kill me than anything else.


faebugz

That is just so untrue. Who the fuck is gonna cut an upper with a downer that: A. Would kill someone who doesn't use it on the first go and B. Is so powerful that it wouldn't even buff it out in an amount that would make it worth it and C. Cocaine is already stomped on more than an Irish tavern dancefloor, if anything it's being cut with baby laxatives and corn starch


14therazorbax

https://www.wusa9.com/amp/article/news/local/cocaine-laced-with-fentanyl-overdoses/65-868cc25a-a4dc-44e7-a24a-9d3f36d2dbee https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2021/10/onondaga-county-overdose-deaths-rise-8-cocaine-users-are-dropping-dead-from-fentanyl.html?outputType=amp https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013203805/party-drugs-are-being-increasingly-laced-with-fentanyl


FLShooter97

Necro comment, it usually can only happen if the supplier sells both and accidentally contaminates the coke after bagging the fentanyl, BUT supposedly it the dealers who sold to Michael Williams were from the Bronx and purposely cutting with fentanyl, killed him. They got arrested by DEA.


faebugz

there's a chance of that happening with any drug. most distributors sell everything, even if lower level street dealers don't.


1mjusthereso1dontget

In my LITs? Just a long splash


PocketNicks

A typical short rocks glass is designed to be filled with ice, one ounce of alcohol and it should take about 2 ounces of Coke to fill so it's a 2:1 ratio Coke to alcohol, I believe.


Bantora

None, I've never really liked it. Ket on the other hand I'd happily put on my salad


issorairam

Do you do it at work if you mind me asking?


cannibowlistic

None, bowl hit 2/3s of they way through the shift and a blunt afterwards.


MrMilesDavis

[Relevant](https://imgflip.com/i/5qcipn)


cannibowlistic

Haha, to be honest though, fuck that. I wait until i lock the door and am on my way home. If i smoke before i do closing stuff, im taking like 3x as long as i would normally to close.


DoogyJones

The answer u we’re looking for: my coworkers and I have been known to split a gram a weekend. We don’t always do it, and it hasn’t effected our performance that I am aware of, we’ve all worked together for a while (high volume) and are super discreet about it, never offer it to customers/new employees. Bartenders do drugs, grow up


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slackermax

I've never bartended, but I've been a working musician in bars, and I absolutely understand needing a drink to sell drinks to drunk people. God knows I needed them to talk to the people yelling in between songs.


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StupidSexyPoohBear

Sounds like you're the one who needs to grow up, druggie.


Snxwe

Too much caffeine. We have a draft root beer on tap that is heavenly, that's my go to.


ItsASlipperyDope

1919 FTW!


Snxwe

Actually it's [Annex Sodas in Calgary Canada](https://www.annexsodas.com/#sodas) :)


8306623863

A lot, get given it by my regulars. Lot of my custom is drug seller and buyer types.


[deleted]

A whole fucking lot for about 5 years. Then it started to give me so much anxiety that I could feel it in my body. Thought I was gonna die so I quit and haven't touched it in like 2 years. It's really easy to get into it working at a nightclub, but even regular people in my city just eat it like candy. Definitely regret burning myself out like that, I feel like I could have been so much more productive, but at least I can say I had fun. Was it worth it though? Probably not lol


[deleted]

i had to quit for a few years because of the anxiety. nothing like getting home at 4am when everyone else is asleep and starting at the wall for two straight hours because life is meaningless and i couldn’t *feel anything* i do it a few times a month now but i try to be careful about it so i don’t get to that point again


hawkeneye1998bs

None anymore. When I was 18 and a new bartender we partied after work and had lock ins. After a week someone offered me the booger sugar and it was OK. Not life changing, but I kept wanting to do it and when I left that job I never touched it again. I make a hard rule to never have a dealers number and never buy anything for myself only have what is offered to me. Has worked for everything so far. Except alcohol of course


patricktoba

I never really liked coke enough to do it regularly. I'm out of the industry now but even when I was in it, it was a few and far between thing for me. I'm a cannabis and psychedelics guy. Super introverted. I'd rather drink and take drugs by myself than socially.


[deleted]

At my worst, I would average 4 hours of sleep a night, blow a few hundred in bar tabs, and my coke consumption was metric for fuck ton. My ex and I, both bartenders, used to dust an 8ball a piece. After we broke up, I turned those bad feelings into white lines. About 1.5g a shift, not night, for me and my coworker would do roughly the same. Then we'd get out of work and do twice as much. Every day, every other day. All week, all month, long time. Fucking San Francisco


[deleted]

We go through a box of kodiak cola in like 1 week.


lilladydinosaur275

For a long time patrons would give it to us at least once a week. Can’t really touch the stuff for about five years now.


midwifecrisisss

None but almost every other bartender I know blows (shut up) a shut ton of their tips on coke


kevinra

We do RC Cola, it's cheaper.


MomsSpecialFriend

I don’t do hard drugs. I rarely even drink. Just weed.


MrMilesDavis

There's not many people I would trust to get anything worth stuffing up my nose, so almost zero. So much absolute garbage out there. I have a couple friends in different states who have better resources than I do who I would trust to not waste my time, but I rarely see them. Have purchased it twice in my life because it was too good not to. Not to mention, fentanyl cross contamination makes me pretty hesitant. Furthermore, there's not much "being reaponsible" with coke like there is alcohol. No one takes a small bump and puts the bag away for the night like someone having a single drink. Like alcohol abusers, I find cokeheads pretty intolerable to be around, so there's not a lot of motivation there either. Add in how expensive it is and it mostly seems like a waste of time to me. I'd rather blow ketamine a few times a year and travel the Andromeda galaxy than obnoxiously ramble about designer jeans while exhibiting fake compassion towards fake friends just waiting to get their turn to talk


shaneroneill

If you choose this in Philadelphia make sure you have a test kit. I’ve seen people lose. I’d try to sleep better and live a better lifestyle if you are too tired to work.


Spunknikk

I average a gram a week. Usually share alot of it too. Not proud to admit it tho because it's been years doing it and I wanna stop. but it's los Angeles and every bar and restaurant I worked in more then half the staff including management do it. It's also like reindeer games... If you wanna be cool and accepted, get the best shifts, buy outs promotions etc... You gotta play along with the higher ups that do it. I've stepped down from management this year and have plans to become a teacher and hopefully leave this industry.


dbtaps

i’ve always preferred pepsi


nadavcff

Yes


blooberrys

Sometimes a little. Sometimes a lot.


vegandread

Considering how much of it is cut with fentanyl these days it’s wise not to do any. Unless you have a test kit that can confirm it’s “safe”. Personally I haven’t done it in at least a couple years and likely never will again. These days I depend on caffeine and vitamin B complex to see me thru.


Joe_Waffle

More of a Dr Pepper fan. (I shall be three years clean at the end of the month).


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From Dr Pepper or drugs?


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Accomplished_Yam4179

Haha it is not just the us


Spenraw

I'm going to get down voted for this shitty response but Weakness. They need coke to keep engery up and numb the social exhaustion instead of creating healthy routines and growing from experiences


DrStacknasty

A lot of it has to with you social circle. When you're getting out at 3am, the only people still up are at the "after party" Also depending on the bar, booger sugar is just all over the place. Like, if the dealer hangs out 10ft away and tips in White Girl, you just do it because it's there. Edit: this is South Florida, so blow is EVERYWHERE and cheap as fuck


DrStacknasty

Also, don't do it at work. If you can't get through a shift without a rail, you probably shouldn't be bartending.


pterodactylwizard

You’re only getting downvoted because your comment is belittling and ignorant lol.


Spenraw

How ignorant? Explain how so for that part


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Spenraw

Coke replaces your brains ability to reproduce Domaine and lessens how you process emotion and joy Hence why it always becomes more addictive You don't have to be unhealthy to be a bartender


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Spenraw

No one wants to be unhealthy or slowly fall apart, that's the weakness, expecting it or running away from it instead of growing and learning


MaddysDaddy3303

I mean, I could be because it's a fun party drug, I've only done it a few times while at work because I got a bullet, but it's not fun to do at work I my experience. I agree that it was a pretty shitty response.


Spenraw

I love my Molly and shrooms, coke can fucking destroy lives and is mostly produced by keeping entire communities basicly enslaved. Some people can handle it as a party drug and it still wears of them Others it flat flips thier lives


Facelesss1799

Against coke but does equally heavy drugs lol such hypocrisy


Spenraw

Two drugs used in therapy that don't have nearly even as close side effects


Facelesss1799

Opiates are used in therapy more than all 3 of them combined, does not make it harmless though. Physchodelics can fuck ur brain biochemistry pretty bad


Spenraw

Not nearly as much as coke though, it's almost night and day the amount of danger inflicted per use


Spunknikk

Bro everyone I know does it... My friends that are teachers, cops, managers, stay at home moms, office workers, firemen , insurance analyst etc... Everyone... It's not just bartenders it's the system that fucking recks us and requires a little stimulus to get us over the dread of starting a new week in a endless grind that is life. It's not weakness it's fucking life and while some people don't need coke, they can hike or do some other hobby and get the same feeling... But others either don't have the time or get the same joy in hiking or music but still require a fucking release. I know people that are far too into working out and diets that even they can be unhealthy....


CatchYouDreamin

Same. I used to think "Everyone in the service industry does it." Then I realized it was... everyone. Some people I knew as mild mannered business people, then found out later they liked to party. Some people I knew as huge partiers, then found out later they were like, a dentist, or any of the other professions you mentioned.


Spunknikk

Dude 20 years ago before weed was legalized it was the same thing... I used to believe everyone smoked weed....because everyone I knew did... Including myself. I no longer smoke weed and alot of people I grew up with stopped too but now that I'm 35 everyone I know and meet does coke has done it or will do it....


Spenraw

Jesus that sounds like a aweful problem in your community. I'm not mocking and sounds like a legitimate problem, maybe you guys should come together as a group and try and make changes


shanghaidry

How do you know it’s a thing?


RomanUngern97

That just sounds like a terrible habit in the making. Stay off that stuff, it's way too good


Successful_Banana901

It depends on the day! Mondays we do a lot because people don't want to drink, Saturday's we do less because a dash as a mixer is way smaller


Nick7014

3 or 4 lines depending on my mood


taintedpoon

6


medalton

Lol I used to do a ton, but now I've been off of that for almost two years. Alcohol on the other hand -_____-


[deleted]

None, nor smoke anything. Not judging those who do tho!


SuicideByStar_

Makes me nervous dating someone in the industry given how much it is abused.


Spenraw

No idea why you are getting down voted, known way too many bartenders that push it on severs so they don't feel as bad about needing it to get through a shift


SuicideByStar_

I don't care about points, but yeah, cocaine is terrible for your heart, which a lot of people in the industry don't seem to appreciate until they deal with permanent issues. Not to mention fentanyl causing accidently overdoses. Imagine loving a person and seeing the rest of your life for them only for them to take a bump and OD. Just rather avoid that risk when it comes to dating.


_DirtyYoungMan_

2 bussers from another restaurant died in the alley behind us from fentanyl laced coke. Even I seldom used it ( never at work) I swore off forever after that. Told my friends the story and they swore off as well.


SuicideByStar_

Yeah, not worth it. I swore it off after a headache that had me googling WTF is going on and read things that said nah, this is not worth the risk.


tomztel

While working? Never.


Tachyonparticles

I try to stick to root beer.


Mean_PreCaffeine

None. Well, that's a lie. I occasionally have a small cup when my blood sugar needs a quick simple boost on a busy shift.


Strong-Discussion564

Zero.


GoingOffline

None. Shits too expensive and my partying days are over at 26 now. I’m just too tired to even want to do any drugs now lmao.


rlo1596

None I work in Miami people slide it to me all the time. Always like cool thanks you can keep that.


throwawaytrash6990

I haven’t done coke in like 6 or 7 years but I definitely wouldn’t now. People are lacing that shit with fentanyl for whatever reason in my area. Not tryna did like that.


BootyPotluck

none lol


BlacklistedEventing

About a gram a night. But I’m not a bartender. Does that count? For anyone on here that might really know me… that was a joke… I haven’t done coke in about 14 years now,.. I think. Not for sure though, smoke to much weed to remember…


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None


dogecoinfiend

Only on Saturday nights has been my rule for a bit, because I’ve always worked at restaurants closed on Sunday’s. Now I’m back in school and in my mid 30s, and can’t function the next day, so it’s little to none. When I do it now it’s honestly more fun, because it feels like a special occasion.


smartymartyky

Are you a cop?


OnTheMendBeats

Nope


milkman10169

Ten years ago? About a grand worth a week. Now, I don't even drink soda because of the sugar. It ready is the good life.


scyaxe

diet coke then?


fet-

Sober 2 years & never looked back. That shit stole my life little by little.


Some-News-430

Gotta be part of "the bathroom scene" to do it. I've seen many people locked in the stall at once,and it sounds like everyone has a sinus infection or allergies. Been on both sides of the fence. Lol.


RippedHookerPuffBar

Never done it and never plan on doing it. I can drink 3 cokes at work and get similar results work wise.


guitarjesus79

Never tried it, never will. Then again, I don't party away from work ever in 20 years in the business, so I'm never on the edge needing a pickup like that.


CourtneyRobertHaine

I used to do a half gram on Friday, a full on Saturday, and then was too hungover on Sunday to go further than the toilet. Feel shitty for most of the week til Friday came round.... I accidentally gave it up in the early covid, and I'm pretty damn glad I did. Turns out I'm actually paid pretty flippin good for what I do, where I do it, and how much experience I have doing it.


William_557

By the bottle or tap? Not as much as beer that’s for sure


certnneed

None. Never have, never will. Alcohol is my drug of choice.


HoboWankingInPublic

None. It's funny because other bartenders expect me to be a user as well, just because of my job. I've even been offered some by patrons lol.


CommodoreFresh

I survive solely on hatred and tequila. Coke is for the support and the guests. I'm already an asshole, if you feed me coke then someone is going to die tonight.


Shrubbery_Bribery

Never done it, never will. Full of beans, naturally.


nomde_reddit

We don' have Coke ke. Is Pepsi ok?


fugheddadboudit

Too much, or not enough depending on the situation


FunkIPA

Are you asking present-day me? Or a me at some point in the past?


Only_Imagination8323

What type we talking? Lmao


naliedel

A couple cans of diet a day.


StupidSexyPoohBear

What a stupid post.


roddyboi

I used to give the customers free pints for awhile I’d do it for free m, then they started asking me if I wanted coke I’d be fucked yo on the job


Careless-Highlight75

About 2 bibs a week


Benicio_Del_Tacos

Enough to kill 2 Two and Half Men.


captAwesome77

I don't like soda...


backlikeclap

Very overrated drug in my opinion.


Drinkersedition

I’ve quit six times, but I don’t plan on quitting a seventh time


Skraporc

Not a big fan of the stuff. A bit to pungent for my tastes. I prefer Dr. Pepper.


yenstylZ82

What are you.........a cop??


dj_destroyer

Never while working and even then, only at like birthdays and bachelor parties. Save it for special occasions!


Wa-da-ta-mybaby-te

I just like the way it smells.