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Igor Stravinsky10

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I'll preface by saying that I'm all for it 🍻😃
I was the only one in the office at 2:00 this morning for a teleconference with our Paris office. Desperately needed coffee. I went to the break room and was looking for filters. Stashed in the back of the cabinet was a box containing 56 empty 1.5 oz bottles of fireball whiskey. WTF? I need to find out who is drinking this at work and sternly ask them why they aren't sharing with me. 😁
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Worked for a small consulting company and we had a standing Friday lunch at a local Irish pub and if there were no afternoon meetings with clients a couple pints were the norm at lunch.

Unfituantelyt working in the public sector now precludes much of that.
 
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I had a little stretch in the back half of my 20s where I was drinking so much that I would start experiencing withdrawal symptoms around my lunch break on Mondays in particular and I would sometimes go to Hy-Vee on my lunch and grab two airplane shooters from the liquor counter. One so I could see straight without my head pounding from 1-3. One more for 3-5. Substituted mouthwash from the office c-store when I was short on time a couple different times. Well before that, @millah_22 probably saw me at UI parking booths reeking of booze and weed
 
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I've got two bottles of whiskey in my office. If I have the right customer after 4p, we'll pour one and solve the worlds problems. They rarely get broken out unless I'm in the office late, or come back after I put the kids to bed.
 
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torbee said:
I pride myself for dabbling in degeneracy, but I keep those activities fully separate from my work life.

Maybe that makes me not a very good degenerate? 🤔
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If you worked at the Press Citizen in the 60s, you’d know the press foreman kept bottles of vodka underneath the pile of rags in the basement. I discovered them there as part-time janitor /stuffer. I was told only take rags from the other pile. The linotype operators would sneak down for a snort before heading to Donell’s for happy hour…
 
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If you worked at the Press Citizen in the 60s, you’d know the press foreman kept bottles of vodka underneath the pile of rags in the basement. I discovered them there as part-time janitor /stuffer. I was told only take rags from the other pile. The linotype operators would sneak down for a snort before heading to Donell’s for happy hour…
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Yeah, even when I started at newspapers (mid 1990s) the "everyone in print journalism drinks" ethos was still pretty strong.

My first editor kept whiskey in his desk drawer.

And I remember when we were slow around Christmas, reporters and photogs would sneak out back to the loading dock and drink egg nogs with bourbon over the lunch hour.

Related - I did write one story super drunk in the middle of the day once.

Here is the story - considering I literally had to get a co-worker to come pick me up from the Lil' Cowbell dive bar in East Moline because I was too hammered to drive back to the newsroom in Rock Island, I feel like it turned out pretty well! The sources in the story REFUSED to give me any quotes unless I went shot-for-shot with them (this was at like 10 a.m.) so I complied. Dedicated to my work! :)

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I work from home, I regularly drink "at work"

Usually not until at least later in the day though and never more than one or two.

It helps me stay humming and I think I'm sharper/quicker with a drink or two in me.
 
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torbee said:
Yeah, even when I started at newspapers (mid 1990s) the "everyone in print journalism drinks" ethos was still pretty strong.

My first editor kept whiskey in his desk drawer.

And I remember when we were slow around Christmas, reporters and photogs would sneak out back to the loading dock and drink egg nogs with bourbon over the lunch hour.

Related - I did write one story super drunk in the middle of the day once.

Here is the story - considering I literally had to get a co-worker to come pick me up from the Lil' Cowbell dive bar in East Moline because I was too hammered to drive back to the newsroom in Rock Island, I feel like it turned out pretty well! The sources in the story REFUSED to give me any quotes unless I went shot-for-shot with them (this was at like 10 a.m.) so I complied. Dedicated to my work! :)

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Pretty impressive work considering.
 
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When I worked for the forest service I had a crew chief that insisted we were allowed one beer at lunch. That said we were often in the middle of no where and I never actually had a beer at lunch while I worked there.
 
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I had a little stretch in the back half of my 20s where I was drinking so much that I would start experiencing withdrawal symptoms around my lunch break on Mondays in particular and I would sometimes go to Hy-Vee on my lunch and grab two airplane shooters from the liquor counter. One so I could see straight without my head pounding from 1-3. One more for 3-5. Substituted mouthwash from the office c-store when I was short on time a couple different times. Well before that, @millah_22 probably saw me at UI parking booths reeking of booze and weed
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Every time I've read about people drinking mouthwash is the stomach ache/diarrhea the day after. I couldn't imagine drinking mouthwash but I've also never had the shakes or any withdrawals
 
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We keep the fridge full for an after work meeting. I haven’t done lunch beers at work in years, unless the afternoon consists of light fvckery.

There is one person that is drunk, not tipsy, drunk, when our crews show up at the end of the day. It is pretty toxic although I really have no recourse.
 
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In Baghdad we made our own hooch. Only one time was I imbibing when the mortars started coming. I was off shift. But I handled it like a champ. Probably would have lit up anyone coming over the walls. Granted, it might have taken all 200 rounds in my ammo clip. But somebody would have died. Thought about shooting the hyenas that night if they charged me.
 
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Jimmy McGill said:
In Baghdad we made our own hooch. Only one time was I imbibing when the mortars started coming. I was off shift. But I handled it like a champ. Probably would have lit up anyone coming over the walls. Granted, it might have taken all 200 rounds in my ammo clip. But somebody would have died. Thought about shooting the hyenas that night if they charged me.
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My (fairly insane) dad - a Vietnam combat veteran who was on a .50 caliber crew with the 101st Airborne - said he liked to smoke a little weed before going on patrol, because it made him just paranoid enough that he was more on edge and less likely to be caught off guard.

Not sure how he made it back, but I wouldn't be here if he hadn't!
 
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torbee said:
My (fairly insane) dad - a Vietnam combat veteran who was on a .50 caliber crew with the 101st Airborne - said he liked to smoke a little weed before going on patrol, because it made him just paranoid enough that he was more on edge and less likely to be caught off guard.

Not sure how he made it back, but I wouldn't be here if he hadn't!
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He knew what he was doing. Whatever gets you home.
 
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Our company had a drinking culture but that changed a little bit throughout the years as we grew. We still have the occasional happy hour around 3PM or a beer in the conference room on a Friday afternoon. Since COVID though, the office is pretty dead. I have a bottle of Walker Red in my desk for those special occasions (closing a big deal, hitting quota, etc)
 
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During tax season I about always keep some beer in the office fridge; I don't drink it during the day, but when I come back after dinner I usually do relatively simple work & will have a beer while checking a couple of returns.

I do have a couple of clients with whom I often have a drink; one in particular I've had a standing arrangement with for 25+ years. He picks up his return late on a Friday afternoon & we have a drink while we go over it. Our deal has always been that if he has a refund coming, he brings the booze; if he owes, I bring it.
 
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torbee said:
Yeah, even when I started at newspapers (mid 1990s) the "everyone in print journalism drinks" ethos was still pretty strong.

My first editor kept whiskey in his desk drawer.

And I remember when we were slow around Christmas, reporters and photogs would sneak out back to the loading dock and drink egg nogs with bourbon over the lunch hour.

Related - I did write one story super drunk in the middle of the day once.

Here is the story - considering I literally had to get a co-worker to come pick me up from the Lil' Cowbell dive bar in East Moline because I was too hammered to drive back to the newsroom in Rock Island, I feel like it turned out pretty well! The sources in the story REFUSED to give me any quotes unless I went shot-for-shot with them (this was at like 10 a.m.) so I complied. Dedicated to my work! :)

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This is awesome! I'll have to read the article later....I'm 56 Fireballs deep right now 😎😁
 
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Unless you are a female teacher hooking up with students
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30 years ago my high school government/economics/history teacher never got up from his reclining chair in the afternoon because of his “bad back”. Constantly had a cup of coffee he sipped from. The day he retired, he just walked out. When they cleaned out the closet in his classroom it was full of vodka bottles. He was drunk most days, the red face and puffy nose gave it away.
 
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jellyfish10 said:
We keep the fridge full for an after work meeting. I haven’t done lunch beers at work in years, unless the afternoon consists of light fvckery.

There is one person that is drunk, not tipsy, drunk, when our crews show up at the end of the day. It is pretty toxic although I really have no recourse.
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