Dr. Brian Pennie

So they knew I was on methadone.

They knew I had massive issues, the inner group within the office, but they tried to protect me through enabling me.

And that probably kept me in addiction for longer.

But then other people within the company, I was very good at my job.

So that's kind of saved me as well.

I was like, I was the only one in the office that knew the very technical details of certain jobs.

So it was hard to say here, you need to get rid of him.

He's no use because they needed me actually for certain jobs.

I was quite good at my job.

And then there was a dipso environment within the job as well.

The management team had drink issues as well.

So it was sort of seeing that I was outside of the error department, that I was a bit of a dipso and a bit of a drinker and I had alcohol issues.

So the culture of alcohol issues in Ireland protected me from the real drug addiction that was going on.

Yeah, I always smile at this.

I probably shouldn't be smiling, but we merged with another company and we were put into an open office.

And like the drugs were really closing in on me at this stage.

Like I was in...

I was 50 grand in debt the drugs weren't working my body was giving up I was falling asleep at work like I wasn't an asset anymore by any stretch of the imagination the company actually used to hide me when we'd have a customer audit they'd put me in the dark room and hide me for the audit and I think I just went in and went to sleep like it was crazy

But when we were put in an open plan office, merged with another company, people that didn't know me and didn't care about me says, what is the story with your man?

How is he even got a job?