@Iacchus 361452 wrote:
ah but you never hear about the people who dont get caught, you just assume they dont take them.
‘rife’ is probably an exaggeration to be honest but both industries are well known for their hedonism and drug taking. this could all be urban legends and chinese whispers as you only hear second hand from someone in the biz, but there’s got to be some truth behind it.
I’ve worked in both media and financial services – not at the highest levels but on the outskirts in places like Reading where a lot of the real work is done particularly in IT and engineering.
Yes there is hedonism and drug taking (for instance some muppet left their used needles in pinewood dressing rooms when all the child actors in harry potter were there, even the luvvies went apeshit and called in the Met!)
but the real professionals find they cannot continue it because the work schedules are getting increasingly heavy, the effects of drug use on physical appearance and health are noticeable and that there is paranoia as celebs are constantly subject to scrutiny and there are always folk barking at their heels to take their jobs who will grass them up.
its also a lot easier to take drugs in less frontline jobs but even then folk are always watching, as its too easy to become sketchy/over-tired especially through even weekend use and then to fuck up something important. A lot more employers are insisting on drugs test for business-critical as well as safety critical roles, and in a long-term recession people simply cannot afford to fuck up too often.
there was a lot of drugtaking/partying and tolerance of people what did this in the dot-com boom times but those times are gone and never coming back.
