Bad K'Ehleyr

[iguana_tonante]

It's one of the few strips I never saw. So true it's eerie.

 

[Holdfast]

Most people's jobs don't require total sobriety.

Quite true. You know, in the old days (before my time, sadly, but just within my dad's time of service) they used to serve wine at lunch to the senior hospital staff. Mind you, those were also the days of the private doctors dining table, with waiter service, well away from the hoi polloi... all lost now, sadly...

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Depending on the work, it can lower inhibitions and loosen tongues

and get you sacked

'Tis a distracting thing when you wake up in another country without your underwear on.

'Tis one to applaud

At least I had my clothes on when I awoke face down on the pavement in Hadleigh, Suffolk (this was prior to the installation of surveillance cameras in the UK) Too much pub crawling can be bad...

But not enough is far worse

Aren't you still on company time even if you are on a lunch break? I don't understand why people would drink alcohol during their lunch knowing they have to be right back at work???

Maybe I misunderstood the situation.

Some places the employees are "on the clock" for meal breaks, some places you aren't. When you aren't, it's none of the employer's business what you do on break, as long as you're in place and ready to work (sober) when the break is over. Of course if you drink alcohol during a half hour or even full hour break you aren't going to be completely sober when you get back to work.

Aren't you still on company time even if you are on a lunch break? I don't understand why people would drink alcohol during their lunch knowing they have to be right back at work???

Sometimes, being tipsy is the only way to deal with work. Or at least, the only sane way. This is especially true for prolonged, useless meetings about menial crap, and (in my case) interminable, droning lectures delivered in monotone by old professors with terrible diction on topics you aren't interested in the slightest, but you are expected to attend due to departmental politeness.

Also, I wrote some of the best code in my life after a good glass of wine, so...

*It was my day off!*

Most people's jobs don't require total sobriety. That's been my modus operandi since leaving university (unsteadily).

Aren't you still on company time even if you are on a lunch break? I don't understand why people would drink alcohol during their lunch knowing they have to be right back at work???

Sometimes, being tipsy is the only way to deal with work. Or at least, the only sane way. This is especially true for prolonged, useless meetings about menial crap, and (in my case) interminable, droning lectures delivered in monotone by old professors with terrible diction on topics you aren't interested in the slightest, but you are expected to attend due to departmental politeness.

Also, I wrote some of the best code in my life after a good glass of wine, so...

Reminded me of this XKCD

It's one of the few strips I never saw. So true it's eerie.

Man is a programmer, worked for the biggest insurance company in the South of our country. He's brilliant. But freely admits that his days consisted of rolling in and reading the 'racing post', 2 hour liquid lunches, and a hefty redunancy package.

But he's most brilliant when half pickled ~ aren't we all? But he would stay for hours to get the code looking beautiful. He will moan no end if someone writes untidy code.

Me ~ I just like a tidy kitchen

It takes a drink and a half before we can break the back of the crytic crossword on a Sunday ~ we totally live life to the full