re: Drinking beer at work

If you have never drank at work then you either work with the public, work with important equipment, or don't have a very intense job. High stress demands booze on occasion.

Eta: not talking about clandestine boozing. I mean a couple of scotches at 8pm on Friday with the rest of the office.

Eta: I guess a few of you teetotalers have never drank with your colleagues at the office.

My office has a beer fridge.

Everyone knows that drinking alcohol at work is for losers. Why get drunk and loose your coordination and rational thinking, when you can smoke you some weed and get increase your creativity and production? Alcohol is the devils water, and weed is gods preferred choice.

i have one or two a day

What if o drink beer with boss and owner?

If I need one, I'm not above a cocktail at 9 am.

When I started my first hardware store I had a fridge full of beer. Rule was on Friday’s 1 beer after 2 pm. Then an employee got in an accident and I got sued. We had to stop it.

I also had a partner that made a rule if you got a nooner then you had time off for it. We had to stop that when we hired a contract HR company to set up policy’s and SOP.

Had a temp job at an oilfield company in Abbeville that brewed their own beer. Every Friday from 4 to 5 p.m., the employees gathered around a cold keg to enjoy the home brew. Always thought that was the coolest thing.

I read a study recently that supported “drinking can increase creative thinking”.

IIRC, .02-.05 BAL was the sweet spot. Too much and the artists become sloppy and lazy. Too little, and their work was uninspired and boring.

I had an old refrigerator that we turned into a keg cooler. But this was we were self-employed. Hard part was getting that keg up the stairs.