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Office Drinking

ifallalot

ifallalot

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Nov 2, 2013
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Carlsbad, CA
#1
Most every employee in my office is currently drinking. Not just having some drinks, but full-on partying.

I'm not participating because I have to work later than the rest of them but mainly because I'm trying to avoid alcohol in general.

Am I going to be seen as a poor sport because I'm not at least hanging out? How do you non-drinker/sober people deal with situations like this?

I don't necessarily want to advertise that I'm going "sober" because I don't want there to be any ideas that there could be a problem there. This is something that they don't need to know.
 
#8
Construction/warehouse/restaraunt/bar?...or...law firm/investment firm/hospital/nursing home?....etc.

Not justifying it, just saying this happen in a different way (beers in the truck vs. martinis and a fancy place) in some industries than others. Not saying it's ok and you certainly don't have to participate. If "everybody's doing it", including whoever signs your checks, you may feel pushed out because you don't fit it. That's really not right but it happens and you should be prepared to deal with it in whatever way gets you the most/best outcome for you. That could be letting it slide for now, joining in, being indifferent, going home to your family 30 min. earlier, suing the company on some discrimination and/or safety issue, or quitting.


So, do you work in a bar? Or a construction site where they may pop some beers while they're rolling up at 3:00 and get off at 3:30? An investor where having highballs with somebody may close a lucrative deal? A job where excess impairment may immediately at that very moment seriously endanger someones personal safety or even life?
 
#11
will33 said:
Construction/warehouse/restaraunt/bar?...or...law firm/investment firm/hospital/nursing home?....etc.

Not justifying it, just saying this happen in a different way (beers in the truck vs. martinis and a fancy place) in some industries than others. Not saying it's ok and you certainly don't have to participate. If "everybody's doing it", including whoever signs your checks, you may feel pushed out because you don't fit it. That's really not right but it happens and you should be prepared to deal with it in whatever way gets you the most/best outcome for you. That could be letting it slide for now, joining in, being indifferent, going home to your family 30 min. earlier, suing the company on some discrimination and/or safety issue, or quitting.


So, do you work in a bar? Or a construction site where they may pop some beers while they're rolling up at 3:00 and get off at 3:30? An investor where having highballs with somebody may close a lucrative deal? A job where excess impairment may immediately at that very moment seriously endanger someones personal safety or even life?
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Media. I'm the engineer so besides the two people editing currently, keeping this thing running falls on my shoulders. No one's life is in danger
 
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ifallalot said:
Media. I'm the engineer so besides the two people editing currently, keeping this thing running falls on my shoulders. No one's life is in danger
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So are the editors drunk? And if so, what is this media and where can I see it? And hell yes, are they hiring? I'm a really good toilet cleaner.



Really, you have quite limited, abstract explantion lacking details, so any real advice would be hard to come by.
 

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