Since I am a teacher this would be a big no no. I have often fantasized about it though!!
Drinking at work.I want to bring it back
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If I was a teacher Id need a buzz just to handle the kids
If you were in AA, then you probably would not want to attend, and that would certainly make you feel excluded.
That exclusion is probably even an actionable offense as far as the HR rules (in any big company) are concerned.
So, no.
I had a professor in college that kept a bottle of booze in his office. He would always had a nip when I dropped by to discuss class projects. He even poured me once. It was a long time ago.
A couple of the female managers did not drink so they chose orange juice or something equally non-alcoholic. Not a term with which I am too familiar(!)
I've never drank at work although I did buy a coworker a beer after going to a market to grab lunch. He drank it until he got home.
For Xmas he brought me a six pack of beer to work and I waited until I got home to drink
For Xmas he brought me a six pack of beer to work and I waited until I got home to drink
I wish!!I thought that that was why they invented faculty lounges.
You have no idea.
One of the benefits of college!!
I work at a Casino, so we have plenty of bars!
Not uncommon for most to have an after work drink or two, as a matter of fact we get a "Shifter" free after work. The majority skip it as they know they are trying to get you to drop a couple bucks. The smart ones have there drink and skip dropping the cash.
That said, as a Supervisor for Security, I tend to skip it unless it is something special. After a big event, coworkers birthday, something like that. I just figure safer to head home if I want a couple.
Not uncommon for most to have an after work drink or two, as a matter of fact we get a "Shifter" free after work. The majority skip it as they know they are trying to get you to drop a couple bucks. The smart ones have there drink and skip dropping the cash.
That said, as a Supervisor for Security, I tend to skip it unless it is something special. After a big event, coworkers birthday, something like that. I just figure safer to head home if I want a couple.
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I work for nys DMV, this should not only be legal, but mandated!
I'm always amazed at movies where everyone seems to have a bottle of booze in their desk, if not on a table in their office, and offer up a drink before any and every meeting. I've NEVER seen this, anywhere! Alas, I missed most of the boozy military culture, though I did catch the tail end of it in the 90's. Now I'm expecting we'll get issued a General Order forbidding alcohol completely, even when not on duty!
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Alrighty then. True story:
A few decades ago, my friend worked for security in my company. (I'm a mild mannered reporter for a greatmetropolitan global phone company.) He was assigned to an unusual case- an installer would return to his garage every afternoon visibly intoxicated. Management spent years trying to catch him drinking, but to no avail. They would search his truck and find nothing. They would follow him into bodegas and ask the clerk what he purchased, but never caught him buying any alcohol. Security was unable to catch him either. On the employee's last day on the job my friend, who had been tailing him for months, said to him, "Look, we know what you've been doing and since you're retiring there's not a damned thing we can do to you. But you have to let me know- how the heck did you get away with it?"
The answer was astonishing. He said he went to an auto supply store and bought a new windshield washer reservoir and replaced the one in his truck with it. He took the hose that would spray the solvent onto the windshield and ran it through a hole in the engine compartment and let it dangle under the dashboard near the steering wheel. He also filled the reservoir with vodka. Every day he would buy a container of orange juice with breakfast. When he would hit the washer button it would squirt a shot of vodka into his glass.
"Absolute" genius, if you ask me.
A few decades ago, my friend worked for security in my company. (I'm a mild mannered reporter for a great
The answer was astonishing. He said he went to an auto supply store and bought a new windshield washer reservoir and replaced the one in his truck with it. He took the hose that would spray the solvent onto the windshield and ran it through a hole in the engine compartment and let it dangle under the dashboard near the steering wheel. He also filled the reservoir with vodka. Every day he would buy a container of orange juice with breakfast. When he would hit the washer button it would squirt a shot of vodka into his glass.
"Absolute" genius, if you ask me.
Wow. My hat is off to that man's ingenuity.
Another true story.
I worked at a company that had an executive floor. One VP claimed to be a non-drinker. Several times a day he would hit the executive washroom and take out from his cubby a bottle that was green in color. I thought it was Listerine but I noticed he didn't gargle with it but rather swallowed the contents. I was new to this company and asked a colleague what that was all about. He told me the "Listerine" was vodka and cream de menthe!
The same man's wife didn't allow alcohol in the house. So, he would hide a bottle of vodka in the rose bushes. He would show up on Monday with abrasions on his hands from the rose thorns.
I worked at a company that had an executive floor. One VP claimed to be a non-drinker. Several times a day he would hit the executive washroom and take out from his cubby a bottle that was green in color. I thought it was Listerine but I noticed he didn't gargle with it but rather swallowed the contents. I was new to this company and asked a colleague what that was all about. He told me the "Listerine" was vodka and cream de menthe!
The same man's wife didn't allow alcohol in the house. So, he would hide a bottle of vodka in the rose bushes. He would show up on Monday with abrasions on his hands from the rose thorns.
One of my older law professors told a story about an even older trial attorney that was well known as a daylight drinker. In fact, he kept a bottle of whiskey behind a pipe at the end of a hallway at the courthouse. Everyone knew it was there, but nobody ever did anything with it or about it, as he never caused any problems (and, as discussed, it was a very different time). He would come out after closing arguments were done and head over to the pipe. No one ever bothered him, and he always made it back to the courtroom when he was needed. In fact, he was uncanny about being on hand when needed.
What folks discovered a little after he retired was that the same pipe ran through the jury room. He may (or may not) have been drinking, but he was listening to everything going on in that jury room.
Clever fellow!
What folks discovered a little after he retired was that the same pipe ran through the jury room. He may (or may not) have been drinking, but he was listening to everything going on in that jury room.
Clever fellow!
I worked for a Public Works agency and drinking at the end of the day (and sometimes during the day) use to be quite common back in the 70's and 80's. At one road shop, there was the typical soda vending machine in the front office and one of the selections was Rainier beer.
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I'm not a lawyer but I believe there is something called host liability which in a nutshell puts the blame on the employer if they are aware that you had a drink during work hours. If you decide to go to the bar after work and get plastered they can put partial blame on your employer in such an instance. Scary thought.
