I expect it was a lot more common ten years ago than it is now

Working in the city, we would go out and have 4-6 pints, 2 or 3 lunchtimes a week .... that was a while ago though :laugh:

A few times we just never bothered going back to work as it would have spoiled the vibe :hee:

Yup. Our manager used to actually sell is the drugs to take at work, so that we had enough energy to do the 16 hour shifts he would stick us on. I can only imagine what it was like for customers woming in to be served and seeing all the staff off their tits gurning away :laugh:

20 years ago maybe but not bang on 2009.

Cocaine is definitely more acceptable these days. Especially among professionals

Too much riding on the line to be mixing business with pleasure

And especially with bankers.

I've gone to work still rat arsed from the night before.

Lol. This thread’s pretty old to be fair.

Corrie seems to have a slew of yuppie professionals getting half-cut at lunch at the minute. A symptom of how overly normalised alcohol is in our culture, no-doubt. If someone had to nip out for half a spliff (maybe not a squirt of CBG oil) at lunchtime to help them think, they’d risk being called a stoner and getting an unnecessary reputation. But because it’s alcohol (a much more destructive and unhealthy drug), it’s acceptable, even encouraged, to go for a pint or a large white wine on your lunch-break to ‘help you concentrate.’ Not good.

Alcohol doesn’t even give pure euphoria. Spiritually, introspectively and as far as more nuanced feelings and deep thought go, it’s as bereft as a substance can get, if we’re being honest. And, again, I’ve been sacked for drinking heavily on the job, so part of me’s already a little biased against the practice at this point, now I’ve taken the time to really think it through, what drinking like a fish was adding to my life beyond the need for a bigger overdraft, even when I was earning properly good money.

Only in certain circumstances. Part of my job involves schmoozing clients, and so there have been times where I've been drinking around clients and even some times when we've gone clubbing etc... and been a little drunk, all in the name of work.

I’ve been foolishly insinuated to be a raging alcohol-dependent just because I said I wouldn’t want to go totally teetotal forever (I never meant just a week on antibiotics or Valium) in the name of medication but I know myself and how much the opposite is true, and that matters more than the bait of a complete stranger. If anything, I can’t stand how overly normalised and deeply ingrained in British culture alcohol is (and, of-course, the hypocrisy/double standards concerning alcohol versus other drugs), and I’ve said that enough times. The relationship with alcohol I have these days is such that I like a good pub-sesh and a few bottles of perry in-and-around that and that’s the extent of it. I rarely go to bars these days. Been there, done that. I don’t mind it but I’m very intentional about spending money on things like that, and have been for the past 3 years. Short of genuine alcoholism/alcohol-abuse, you know your rhythm, limits and values. I wouldn’t stretch them into work if those values don’t act as a deterrent for them, outside certain circumstances, but everyone’s their own person. I’m just stating my own boundaries.