On 2021-04-14 5:20 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/14/2021 3:37 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

>> Many places would fire you for any alcohol.Â* I always had wine in the
>> fridge at work.Â* Nothing fancy, just a box of red and one of white.
>
> I worked for a small software company in the 1980's.Â* The owner kept
> beer in the office fridge and at Noon on Friday everyone was allowed to
> have a beer or two.
>
> Back in the 1990's I had some friends worked at the Coors Brewery which
> had recently opened up shop in west TN.Â* Used to be the employees were
> allowed to drink company products on the job... until their insurance
> company got wind of it.Â* Huge liability issues!Â* So they started giving
> their employees a case of whatever product they wanted every Friday to
> take home instead.
>


Aside from being a perk, there is a big advantage to employees getting
to eat or drink their products. It stops them from ****ing into the vats.

When I worked in the maintenance department we had some crews that did a
lot of boozing. Several of the patrol yards had a habit of a couple
beers on Friday afternoon. There was one where the booze came out after
lunch. Some of the specialty crews had a lot of liquid lunches.

The bridge crew was the worse. That was probably because the foreman
was a drunk. He showed up at our shop in his work vehicle on a day off.
He was half in the bag. He picked up a cement mixer to so some cement
work at home. Before he made it home he blew a stop sign and got T
boned, totalling the van and the mixer. He somehow managed not to get
fired. He lost his license so they arranged for a driver for him.