I guess the management will not look at the human factor, as to why a well qualified, well paid and obviously dedicated professional person feels the requirement to drink pre 07:00 then arrive in work drunk?
Yep thought not!
Under the principle of Jurisprudence, an offence is committed whenever any one either has committed a physical element of a crime whilst fulfilling the relevant mental element; or as in the case of being drunk on duty, it is a crime of circumstance. This means you only have to be unfit to work whilst at or attempting to be at work to have committed the offence.
So basically an offence does not have to be witnessed or reported to have happened, it just has to be done.
I get what bjcc is getting at. Now do I smell a journo, or some one who thinks the coffee machine is so disgusting that a tot of single malt would vastly improve it
B.T.W. I am in no way defending this person or condoning arriving at work drunk but there is a deeper question.