graham wrote:
"Ronin" wrote in message
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Evan
When I started work in the late '60s in the international division of a
huge bank, it aslo was de rigeur to drink with clients at lunch, and for
some, to keep some semblance of "keeping up" (there were a few I remember
I could not keep up with if I wanted to!) It was bank policy that if you
felt like it after such a lunch, you could just not return. In fact it was
preferred, and not frowned upon.


In the mid 80s, we always contacted one person in a major oil co. in the
morning. After an umpteen martini lunch, he was ill-tempered and
irrational.
Things have changed now. I had to sign a 'no-intoxicant' clause in my
current contract with another major oil co.

Interesting. A more "enlightened" policy might be to vet all potential
hires as "happy drunks" and reject those who turn up as "angry drunks"
or "morose drunks." I think that pretty much covers the taxonomy of
intoxication, though I'm always open to learning more about this
understudied field. ;-)

Mark Lipton


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