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Are there rules about drunken-ness where you work? We have another office that's still legally obliged to be dry cos of the warehouse and heavy machinery. luckily here there is no such problem. on the other hand we do have informal rules in so far as we agree not to work on "live servers" if we go for the lunchtime booze. But that's just us poor systems bods.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

POETS-day answers here

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since it is part of my job to drink at lunchtime, and I am the boss, no. The main rule is if I fancy continuing drinking I have to think of a meeting in another building and cover my tracks (merely so that I don't set a bad example).

― Pete, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to work at an Advertising Agency. Invariably, the BEST and more CREATIVE concepts would be dreamed up at around 4pm after the creative team had stumbled back from the Firkin. So they didn't really seem to have a policy at all. In fact, my first day, the owner of the company took me and the former sys admin to lunch and poured two bottles of wine down our gullets.

― kate, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a complete ban on alkyhol on the site but lunchtime drinking is fine, not that we do it much anymore cos there's no decent pubs around ..... sob

― chris, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but we do finish at 3.30 on a friday though so it is poets day every friday

― chris, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No drinking at lunchtime allowed here. (sobs)

― Jonnie, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eh? thought you were always going to the pub at lunchtime Jonnie?

― chris, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Really? Cor. I didn't think there were places apart from UBER- CORPORATE HELL HOLES where they had LORES on that kind of thing. We are probably not suposed to be. But oh well!

― Sarah, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From my time in the Civil Service Sarah, it would seem that drinking at lunchtime was expected, at least in the Employment service headquarters in Sheffield, mind you there were some bloody marvellous pubs around there. Ahhh, the Washington, the frog and parrot before it got taken over, the one further up Division street that I could never remember the name of....

― chris, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I sit directly in the boss's sightlines, he can almost read my screen at all times. BFD. "I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned"!

― dave q, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In my career, drinking at lunchtime has gone from 'expected, esp. on Friday' to 'trendy NOT to' to 'no time anyway' to 'just not done' and finally to 'wine or beer with lunch compulsory'(!). I'm confused.

― Jeff W, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beer at lunch = classic.

Beer at lunch when your internet connection is down meaning you have to do some work afterwards, like what happened to me earlier this week = dud.

― RickyT, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Our salesperson once came half-drunk in the shop. He was actually quite nice that day. Not the usual mysoginistic bastardo that he usually is. :-)

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

Drunk with unread emails about midwives and having been lectured about teamwork form a co-worker this afternoon

― calstars, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

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