On 4/14/2021 3:55 PM, GM wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 2:37:41 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 4/14/2021 3:26 PM, bruce bowser wrote:
>>> I've noticed that fewer bosses smoke in the building and stash liquor in the bottom desk drawer. I guess its because its not politically correct. Its still a shame.
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>> Many places would fire you for any alcohol. I always had wine in the
>> fridge at work. Nothing fancy, just a box of red and one of white.
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> Work culture - white collar at least - has really changed. I watch a lot of older movies, office/work drinking was often featured, as a butt of comedy, e.g. Pillow Talk, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? ...or as tragedy, e.g. The Days of Wine and Roses, The Apartment...
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> Lotsa ads in old issues of The New Yorker and the NY Times for those "portable" bars that executives apparently touted around on their travels, places like Hammacher Schlemer, Abercrombie & Fitch had some very snazzy offerings...
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Where my father worked in the late 1950s the two owners had offices side
by side, but another room in between. It had a well stocked wet bar for
when they had visitors.