Drinking at Work

[Lex Diamonds]

Is it OK? Are there rules about it? I mean, in your lunch break, if you go for a pub lunch and have like 4 pints and go back to the office slightly toasted, is that not allowed?

[abcdefz]

We can if we want, unless it becomes a problem.

Oh, wait: come back "slightly toasted"? I'd say that wouldn't be cool. Not at this job. At other jobs I've had, we'd do shots or smoke joints, and it was okay.

[Rock]

todays verdict - so far so good.

there isn't anything in our companies policy saying that we can't get drunk during work. but it does say that if an employee shows up drunk...its up to the manager's descretion on whether or not they are fit to go home (meaning drive home).

[beastiegirrl101]

I can if I am entertaining clients...but beer is like potato chips, you can't have just one. So I ususally don't even go there.

[ampm]

I'm scheduled to do 'shrooms on my lunch break tomorrow. I'll report back within 24 hours.

[Yeti]

I used to work on the Eastern Shore of Maryland at a CBS affiliate. The morning achor always had a coffee cup beside him on the set. It didn't have coffee in the cup--it had straight bourbon in the mug. He was fired for slurring his words on a morning broadcast. They finally realized he was drunk most mornings. The funny thing was that the town had billboards with him holding his company coffee cup.

[beastiegirrl101]

I used to work on the Eastern Shore of Maryland at a CBS affiliate. The morning achor always had a coffee cup beside him on the set. It didn't have coffee in the cup--it had straight bourbon in the mug. He was fired for slurring his words on a morning broadcast. They finally realized he was drunk most mornings. The funny thing was that the town had billboards with him holding his company coffee cup.

I'm an event planner and I get freaked out at big events so my managers will give me my "coffee cup" usually filled with wine.

[Bob]

i guess it must depend on the company. where i work, there's a pretty relaxed attitude towards most things (dress code, hours, etc), but shit would definitely hit the fan if people started drinking.

[ms.peachy]

Is it OK? Are there rules about it? I mean, in your lunch break, if you go for a pub lunch and have like 4 pints and go back to the office slightly toasted, is that not allowed?
'Course you can. You're in England, son. It's the done thing, innit?

[Lex Diamonds]

'Course you can. You're in England, son. It's the done thing, innit?
Safe as fuck!

[little j]

my associates manual says i can have up to two alcoholic beverages during work hours.

last week i had a hugo margarita at lunch...it reminded me of mexico and drinking with seth and victor hooking up the margies and the free tacos that were the best things i've ever tasted especially high on really cheap good mexican green stuff.


ach mexico.

[Dorothy Wood]

I drank beers at work with my manager and my boss in the middle of the day once. My manager had brought some microbrew beer back from a trip to New Orleans, and during a particularly stressful part of the day, she said, "okay! I think it's beer time, everyone needs to chill out!" and we did.

I don't really like getting drunk in the middle of the day though, I get too tired.

[paul jones]

you can't drink at work. There's always a supervisor cunt who wil grass you uop

[HOTWIFE]

I'm a merchandiser so I could drink all day if I wanted. Of course, that would mean I'd be driving drunk, which wouldn't be good.

[Bob]

i guess it must depend on the company. where i work, there's a pretty relaxed attitude towards most things (dress code, hours, etc), but shit would definitely hit the fan if people started drinking.


i should amend that, actually, it probably depends more on the kind of work you do. i work for a disability insurance company, and aside from myself, everyone who's employed there either makes complicated claim determinations, or talks to claimants (most of whom are old, permanently disabled, and only call when they want to yell at us about something, whether it's our fault or not...we even get yelled at for shit that other companies do, for complicated reasons that are too boring to get into within parentheses), and you don't want to be drunk when you're doing either of those, because all it takes is one dumb mistake or one slip of the tongue and suddenly we're getting sued and we can't pick up any new business.

me, though, my job is pretty brainless. i could probably do my job while in a coma and still get pats on the back.

[trailerprincess]

they are pretty relaxed at my place - as long as you're not dribbling at your desk they don't mind. And at our company event last month, we had a free bar from 7pm to 5am so I think they are just encouraging us in fact

[enree erzweglle]

Is it OK? Are there rules about it? I mean, in your lunch break, if you go for a pub lunch and have like 4 pints and go back to the office slightly toasted, is that not allowed?
I guess it varies but while my work place is extremely flexible and giving, what you describe (especially if it happened more than once) would be grounds for a person being put on notice.

I think if it happened one time to an otherwise reasonable employee, someone would say something to the person sort of off the record. And then they'd probably watch that person more closely than they would have otherwise. If it happened again, it would likely escalate to that person's boss or the boss's boss. I think if it happened a third time, HR would get involved and official steps would be taken--whether that means forcing the person into a program or just firing him outright is probably where it varies from case to case.

I think if the person was displaying signs of drinking a lot (like if they smelled like alcohol, and most of them do without realizing it) then HR would perhaps set up grounds for making that person enroll into a program. But if the person was visibly intoxicated on the job or if they continued to smell like alcohol after the early warnings, I think it would be grounds for firing straight away.

[na§tee]

I don't really like getting drunk in the middle of the day though, I get too tired.
yah, me too. i'm getting old.

it's sort of a pointless task really, too. what's the point in only having one beer when you're going to feel a little jolly then have to sit down and work for the rest of the afternoon? save it till after work, i say.

[Gareth]

i'd like to one day have a balcony so i can have whiskey and smoke cigars after work like denny crane
but only after.
not during.

[Lex Diamonds]

Yep, it's the 'trose, my interview's today actually. 6.15pm, so I need to try not to get stoned this afternoon. I'ma drink loads of coffee and wear a suit so I'm fresh and hard-working looking. Wish me luck. (y)

[Planetary]

Yep, it's the 'trose, my interview's today actually. 6.15pm, so I need to try not to get stoned this afternoon. I'ma drink loads of coffee and wear a suit so I'm fresh and hard-working looking. Wish me luck. (y)

a suit? shibby

[Lex Diamonds]

I would have posted a picture but I haven't got time to deal with all the PM's I would receive telling me how buff I look.

[Documad]

We can't drink at all during the workday. If there's a big event-type lunch like for someone's retirement, bosses will remind people that if they're going to drink they have to take the afternoon off and use vacation time.

I used to drink at lunch on every payday at a prior job. I drank too much a few times and my bosses never discovered it because they rarely checked on us grunts on Friday afternoons.