My Relationship with Alcohol and Bank of America: A Personal Story

<p><strong>I decided on April Fool's Day to tell the most personal story of my journey.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Wanted to share it after </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/BankBetterGuy/status/1244709908613906432"><strong>a poll about people drinking on the job </strong></a><strong>STUNNED me on my Twitter!</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>My relationship with alcohol is a weird one. I never drank in high school or college, and barely drank as I got into the working world. Wasn't for me.</strong></p> <p><strong>Then I worked at Bank of America &nbsp;and the stress-induced environment led to parties with co-workers that got people arrested and forced them to quit. I used alcohol to fortify my self-confidence, as I was overcoming shyness with women, sales, and the banking world. I partied too much as a kid, to the point of a nervous breakdown and starvation.</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;After a move to Las Cruces, NM, I used alcohol to make me forget of the verbal abuse the bosses of Bank of America launched on us on a daily basis. I would go on these benders with an old co-worker, Annette where we would drink to forget how much we hated it. That manifested into a weird personal relationship we had that was around for years until my November 2015 Suicide Attempt in Las Vegas, spurred on by a text message from Bank of America managers on my vacation.</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;I then talk about my fight to get rid of booze from my life then, as I only used it to numb the BofA stress.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;One relapse since then. After my niece died, and they refused to let me leave the branch because no one was around to open accounts, I binge drank the day after she died and didn't face the issue face to face. Last drink I ever had except for other Vegas trips with my wife, and that was the day I stopped caring about Bank of America.</strong></p> <p><strong>Bank of America was nearly the only reason I drank from 2005-2017. I'm a teetotaler otherwise. Thanks for listening.</strong