[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Drinking at work (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 11/8/2013 11:51:46 AM EDT
| Who's company allows it? I'm enjoying a 750ml 10.3% Pumpkin IPA at work while typing this. |
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I'm an engineer. Nope. I'm tempted at times though.  Same. Although twice we've had celebratory shots in the lab after shipping a prototype, but only after all the work was done. ETA: We do have eggnog on the last day before everyone takes off for Christmas. |
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I wish but I don't think driving forklift and operating overhead cranes would be a good idea while intoxicated . My company is pretty strict on zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol, you can't even use tobacco or e cigs on the property.
When GM was open in Janesville there was a bar in the middle of the parking lot so you can guess those guys liked to drink on their breaks. No wonder their vehicles suck. |
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My sister works in the Marketing industry and works late hours, hell they have a margarita machine at work. My company ships wine but they frown upon opening the merchandise
I doubt anyone now would care if I had a beverage at lunch (I had a Live Oak Hefe with my wood fired pizza today) but my old boss really made a stink about people drinking at lunch. His ass retired, thank god. Two on an empty stomach gives me a light buzz and makes the afternoon take forever though. Really odd because after I have eaten it takes about 5 or 6 beers to do the same thing. |
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Who's company allows it? I'm enjoying a 750ml 10.3% Pumpkin IPA at work while typing this. I'm assuming you are in the army by your avatar. I'm in USAREC and I don't know of anywhere that allows drinking at work but I do know they have been releasing recruiters from the command for doing it. Like someone once told me "do what your rank can handle" Some guys might like a little Kahlua or whiskey in their morning coffee but it's not something I have ever done. |
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The corporate rule is I cannot "be or appear to be intoxicated while on a customer's site."
My "customer" is, currently a Fed LEO agency so, they have pretty zero tolerance for "appear to be intoxicated." I've been toold there's no policy against drinking at lunch but, even if I drank, I wouldn't. Most of the Feds I work with are ex-CBP or Muni cops and have a "nose" for that sort of thing. They also have an "obligation" to report. Just not worth it at the job I have now. That said, back when I was a lush and working commissioned sales it was "Martini Monday" EVERYDAY for the sales-people and the worker bees. Nobody ever got sloppy and our antic never got a second glance from "the powers." I think environment plays a HUGE part in the tolerance level. I assume culture does too. A good buddy on Boomer subs says they did a crew swap with the Scottish Navy and, he claims, the Scots are allowed 3 beers per shift while on duty. Americans have a, erm, unique idea what "acceptable" drinking is. |
| When I'm at CERN I have a beer with lunch and a few with/after dinner, all while working. It does help that it's in Switzerland/France where the only meal they don't drink with is breakfast. Although usually its a fairly average Swiss beer unless I want to pay 7 Franc for something decent. Better than nuttin. |
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Yes, we can drink at work. There are several beer fridges, a bunch of liquor cabinets, and many people have bottles in their offices. We have beer tastings at the office about once per quarter.
The policy is, more or less, "Don't be that guy." The official policy is you can pick two of: { "Drink" , "Write code" , "Commit code" , "Review code" }. If you break the build your name goes up on the wall of shame and gets blasted out automatically over the chat servers. |
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Kind of.
I work from home, so if I'm working late into the evening I'll have a drink. Part of the job is attending academic conferences, meetings, etc. A lot of the work goes on over beverages, so in that case, totally acceptable. I would never show up to one of our offices with booze though, or have a beer at lunch while working at the office. Has less to do with professionalism and more to do with the fact that I never drink before dinner. |
We were just having this discussion a few days ago. A friend of mine who used to be a computer programmer before deciding to go back to school informed me of the Ballmer curve, and that it is very applicable to using MATLAB, SAS, STATA, R, etc for econometric analysis.  |
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Not really, no. I'm an electrician and work with electricity. Other people around me work with a plethora of cutting tools and heavy machinery, so I'm glad it's not tolerated.
The only time I've seen drinking on the job is the last (half)day before the summer vacations. People stop working half passed 10 and go back to the shack and crack open a cold case
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Why are they prejudice against breakfast? What did it do to them? Quoted:
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... the only meal they don't drink with is breakfast... Why are they prejudice against breakfast? What did it do to them? Breakfast there is reserved for a croissant and coffee. Every other meal is meat, bread, wine, then coffee. And damn their coffee is good. |
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I'm assuming you are in the army by your avatar. I'm in USAREC and I don't know of anywhere that allows drinking at work but I do know they have been releasing recruiters from the command for doing it. Like someone once told me "do what your rank can handle" Some guys might like a little Kahlua or whiskey in their morning coffee but it's not something I have ever done. Quoted:
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Who's company allows it? I'm enjoying a 750ml 10.3% Pumpkin IPA at work while typing this. I'm assuming you are in the army by your avatar. I'm in USAREC and I don't know of anywhere that allows drinking at work but I do know they have been releasing recruiters from the command for doing it. Like someone once told me "do what your rank can handle" Some guys might like a little Kahlua or whiskey in their morning coffee but it's not something I have ever done. A couple of years ago when I was in USAREC, we had a 3 month run of blowing mission out of the water. We spent most of our afternoons at a public golf course drinking and playing scramble. This, of course ended after our luck ran out. |
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One place I worked, several hundred employees at our location, would have monthly birthday parties with kegs of beer. If we had an offsite meal, the corporate bigwigs would get trashed. I'm talking VP's, managers, etc.
It wasn't social drinking, it was binge drinking. They had a lot of issues at that company, this was just one of them. I just didn't respect anyone after seeing that. I found another job and moved on. |
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I don't trust "alcohol heads"
Alcohol is a disinfectant and an industrial chemical solvent. It is also a deadly nerve toxin. The only reason it can be ingested without killing people is because of a flukey ability of the human body to combust it into sugar. Some people drink it to get "drunk" as they call it I think people should be tested at work for alcohol use on or off duty and fired for using it |
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I don't trust "alcohol heads" Alcohol is a disinfectant and an industrial chemical solvent. It is also a deadly nerve toxin. The only reason it can be ingested without killing people is because of a flukey ability of the human body to combust it into sugar. Some people drink it to get "drunk" as they call it I think people should be tested at work for alcohol use on or off duty and fired for using it You're fired. 
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Uh no. I work in construction and don't feel like getting hurt or killed at work. I've kicked people off my job site who smell like booze. One guy was a crane operator. You're going to be an unpopular guy here on arfcom if you keep acknowledging reality These guys hate "hippies" and love booze those are the two irreducible chemical elements of arf GD there can be some pathetic drunk reporting that he is wasted at 10:00 am on a Wednesday morning and these guys cheer it on like it's a big achievement like the guy's sad, shitty, drug addicted life is OK because it's booze and not meth anyway, I'm with you booze just puts some part of the brain to sleep, it doesn't focus as well, the concentration level falls off anyone who says otherwise is just kidding himself it's that simple |