To me, just doesn't seem like a drinking place. First, write off lunch, as people have to return to work. For dinner... just me, but a burger place is for beers. Mexican food says margaritas. Italian... I can see wine, but less people are wine drinkers. 3 construction guys will go to Hooters and kill some wings and beers, but I don't see them going for a Tour of Italy and knocking back 3 glasses of vino. They would probably just get Cokes and overdo it on garlic bread.
I'm in the US and didn't get the memo either. The three martini lunch didn't go away, it just comes in a salt rimmed glass as part of a three margarita lunch now – but that's a white collar thing. Construction guys? Drinking on the job, especially if they're painters lol.
Can confirm. I was a painter and the joke was that the fumes got to the heads of the guys who did it for a long time and drinking was barely even a thing to them. Just made them feel normal. Now that I think about it it probably wasn’t even a joke.
Definitely the painters. When I was painting with a huge construction company...we went out for lunch often, and there were always people getting just a "few" beers at lunch. The head painter would bring a cooler with beer in it for when we didn't go out to eat. I've also had my hand in a lot of other construction, mainly roofing and siding. We NEVER drank...which was fine..cuz ya know..heights and alcohol, terrible mix.
I’m a nurse and I’ve taken care of more than one roofer who has fallen off the roof while drunk. I have also taken care of a roofer who had a seizure and fell off a roof because he was not “drunk enough”. The dudes mom brought him balloons and I caught him inhaling the helium lol. Some people…
Lol oh geeze, I believe it! I know some roofers that worked in a different company that definitely had the shakes come mid-day! Such a recipe for disaster. Man, when people have it bad enough, they'll get their fix anywhere they can get it!
Even the name says they’re intended to be drunk in multiples. After all, with Latin-derived word endings, if you only had one it would be a “martinus”.
I work at a shipyard and being allowed to have 2 beers with lunch is part of the union contract. One of the pizza places right outside the gates has a "lunch special" where it's a pizza and 2 pitchers of beer, lol.
It’s often kinda taboo to drink at all during work hours in the US. Hence the “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”, as in it’s ok to drink after 5. Even when people drink at after hours work events they tend to keep it very light. There’s also a million exceptions to this, so your mileage will vary.
I work in US and drink at lunch with friends and colleagues. My job will have cocktail hours in the afternoon starting 3-4. Ive worked two places that had full bars in the office.
Can't really equate 60 years ago to now. Also white collar vs. blue collar. There's usually rules against drinking on the job at most places in this decade. Prolly the last 4 decades also.
At megacorp we had an explicit no drugs/alcohol on campus policy along with a beer fridge in the game room, open bar during private events, and cash bar during public events. I remember having a 1:1 with a lateral manager where he knocked back a couple manhattans at the bar (these meetings are typically well less than an hour). Those who didn't want to day drink were generally stoned out of their minds by noon. Whatever temperance rules there are were written with a wink and a nod.
Even better if you work in finance. That shit still runs on coke just like it did in the 80s. Bret Easton Ellis wrote documentaries, not satire.
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u/Constant_Ride_128 Nov 19 '22
This is exactly mildly interesting