Alcohol during day functions at the office

[kedrys]

My new job does that. :woohoo: We had a luncheon for the events manager, who's leaving, and between 12 people we sucked down 6 bottles of rather good vino. In a conference room down the hall from our department, no less.

The part about acting not drunk and mostly awake for 3 hours afterwards was pretty entertaining too. :P

[fizzgig]

1. that reminds me of the office i worked in when i was in high school and college

every year for secretary's/administrative assistant's day, the boss would pay for lunch at the swankiest place in town and the other women in the office would get pretty blitzed. i was too young to drink, so i'd be the only one who worked that afternoon...it was pretty entertaining :rofl:

[crimsonblue]

2. I got drunk at work...

but nobody knew... :yoiks:

[graywarrior]

3. Ooooo, we did that at work in Boston in the 70's

Started at noon and then continued alllllll afternoon til 5 pm. So bad it was good.

[wain]

4. Those days are long gone

Whatever happened to us? What was wrong with the way we celebrated at work? I remember hard liquor bottles on the desks all afternoon as we celebrated, worked and drank. This is a department of mostly women. Work just isn't as much fun anymore.

[graywarrior]

5. I only worked there because my boss was a drunk and we could all drink together.

Yep, those days have passed.

[Hippo_Tron]

6. MADD fundamentally changed the way this country views drinking

[XemaSab]

7. In some ways they do a good service

and in some ways they're modern day Carrie Nations with hatchets for chopping down apple trees. :o

[Hippo_Tron]

8. My feelings exactly

[Taverner]

9. Personally I don't see any great service from MADD

They have made Drinking and Driving laws downright fascist.

.08? Come ON! That's not even a full beer for a 175 lb male!

And your life shouldn't be RUINED if you D&D - and that's exactly what happens.

[Hippo_Tron]

11. I'm of mixed feelings about it

.08 is different for some people than it is for others. Most people are probably fine at .08 while others with low tolerance are dangerously impaired. Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable driving at .10.

I also think it's different depending on the circumstances. If someone has .10 and is driving the speed limit on a 25 mile per hour road in a neighborhood area, chances are very slim that they will kill or seriously injure someone. Whereas the sober reckless driver who is going down that same road at 60 mph is far more likely to kill someone.

Put another way, in almost every story I've read about a drunk driving fatality, the driver was acting reckless and going absurdly fast instead of going at or slightly below the speed limit.

[Real_Talk]

12. Are you sure about that.?

I thought .08 was more like three drinks in under an hour for the average man. Also, DWI is not very harshly prosecuted if you are not that drunk and don't crash into anything.In many places you are off with a short suspension and a fine, you often don't even get a criminal record for the first one. Seems fair to me, get drunk at home, or let someone else drive.

[graywarrior]

10. So did the 12 step phenomenon