Alas, I don't have an answer for this week's QOTW
...but I do have a relevant story, which I'll post here if I may:

I used to work for a small sales company in London. There were three bosses, for the sake of anonymity (unless you know them) let's call them Rutger, P and Geedub.

Geedub was/is an alcoholic, which is where his nickname of Geedub comes from - it's short for GW, the initials of "God Watch", rhyming slang for Scotch - his tipple of choice.

So, gradually, Geedub's problem got worse and worse, and he was dragging the company down with him. Rutger didn't seem to want to do anything for a long time, much to P's annoyance, but finally things got beyond a joke. Geedub started phoning the office from his desk and quickly answering the incoming call, then holding extremely long and drawn out conversations with no-one, which invariably ended with him having to pop out to see whichever customer he's just pretended to speak to, then returning bang on 5:30 reeking of booze and as pissed as a fart. He nearly got caught once, when the guy he was pretending to hold forth with on the phone appeared at the trade counter. Geedub then pretended he'd been talking to the guy's boss.
After many many months of this, finally a private detective agency was brought in to keep tabs on him.
To cut a sad story short, they found that he was going out to strip clubs, brothels, pubs, and porn video shops, whilst telling us he was off to see a customer. Sadly, his wife worked for us too, and in the best love is blind style, refused to see that he had a drink problem. She even told us once that he must have great hearing, because he got up every night at 4 o'clock to "let the dogs out for a wee" and she couldn't even hear them... his booze dependency by then was so bad it was waking him up to go and get a drink.

Anyway - finally, Rutger and P confronted him and suggested he think about a new career, which he did. Unbelievably, he went to run a pub, but that's a whole other story.

Finally, I can apologise for length and mean it...
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 25 Feb 2006, 16:22, Reply)