Lunchtime drinking

Generally work in places where I’d be sacked for drinking at lunch. So it’s a no from me. If I did drink I would probably have a hangover or fall asleep at my desk. I was always a bit surprised in one place that the finance team always did have a liquid lunch on a Friday and no one raised it.

It used to be the norm here too when I started 16 years ago. Then everyone became gym bunnies. Now we have a few boozers, they’re a lunchtime cabal of sorts. They are of course younger, and can handle it, whereas I will be asleep in the corner.

I drink very heavily every lunchtime because it makes home time come around a lot qucker. Plus almost no one can piss me off in the afternoons, so I am only ever fuming before 11.30am, result

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Originally posted by @Bucks

I drink very heavily every lunchtime because it makes home time come around a lot qucker. Plus almost no one can miss me off in the afternoons, so I am only ever fuming before 11.30am, result

We have a winner…

Originally posted by @Mr_Pharmacist

Originally posted by @Bucks

I drink very heavily every lunchtime because it makes home time come around a lot qucker. Plus almost no one can miss me off in the afternoons, so I am only ever fuming before 11.30am, result

We have a winner…

Nope

Have just got back from a liquid lunch with a client after sealing a deal. Happens pretty often in town still and is par for the course, have come back to turn off PC & go out to carry on… but not like back I the late 80’s…

:lou_lol:

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When I worked for a company that had an office at Town Quay we popped next door to the Platform Tavern for a work colleagues birthday, this was at about lunchtime.

At 16:30 we got a call off of one of our bosses wondering where we were. When we explained, quite drunkely, they came down and joined us and even bought a round. I seem to remember getting the last train home to Poole, just…

We were all bollocked the next day though!!

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You air traffic controllers are a crazy bunch!

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That was me you little bastard

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Farking wuuses - I’m shitfaced on the way to work!

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Originally posted by @CB-Saint

Originally posted by @BTripz

When I worked for a company that had an office at Town Quay we popped next door to the Platform Tavern for a work colleagues birthday, this was at about lunchtime.

At 16:30 we got a call off of one of our bosses wondering where we were. When we explained, quite drunkely, they came down and joined us and even bought a round. I seem to remember getting the last train home to Poole, just…

We were all bollocked the next day though!!

That was me you little bastard

And may I say what a great boss you were!! What happened to your South African accent though??

Something’s got to make chasing rabbits down holes all day seem interesting…

The old saying No smoking 10 hours before a duty and no drinking within 100 yards of the Control Tower :cool:

That was me you little bliksem?

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More of a guideline than a rule

:lou_wink:

I did a stint in Crouch End, working for a bunch of 1st and 2nd generation Irish guys and they’d be on it most lunchtimes. I couldn’t keep up with them, they were a couple of leagues above me in the drinking stakes.

And they’d fuck off back home at the drop of a hat, for a couple of weeks, to go on the piss, often taking one of the labourers along with them to act as their driver. They’d never tell me either. I’d often turn up on a Monday morning for a client meeting on my own as Joe or Tommy had gone home for a “little rest”, along with the company credit card and a couple of fellas to drive them around.

These days, I can’t go back to work if i have taken a drink at lunchtime. I have to bin the rest of the day off or carry on in the pub.

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Originally posted by @Numptyboi

or carry on in the pub.

without wishing to sound like a seasoned boozehound, there is a certain exciting frisson about doing this. Problem nowadays is the hangover kicks in before bedtime…

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Generally frowned upon in the NHS, and even if we were allowed to drink at lunchtime I don’t think I would, as I need that half an hour to stuff my face with cake and crisps.

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Well, beer is a food group all of its own, fill of micro nutrients and stuff. It also makes me piss a lot which is a good aid to help weight loss…after all isn’t the NHS continually banging on about us losing weight and cutting down on alcohol…oh, wait…

:lou_facepalm_2:

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I should add they don’t sell alcohol in the canteen. They do sell cake and crisps. Cake is good for you and crisps have as much vitamin C as an orange.

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Isn’t beer a diuretic, at least it feels like it is after the 3rd pint.

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