friends don't let friends drunk-post to lj

[rone]

OK, so i'm on my fourth beer and it was the last, lonely Red Hook ESB in the fridge, and nobody else spotted it, so that's cool.  And, um.  Yeah.  I have iTunes blasting music and people are milling around drinking beer and shooting the shit and climbing cubicle walls (not me, honest).  There's a vibe of nervous release floating about, and it's simultaneously exciting and enervating.  Maybe it's just the collective adrenaline wearing off.

That's all.  WOOOOO!!!!!  PARTAY!!!!

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[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

...lots of beer was perfectly acceptable. I do play music and drink beer while working anyway

So California doesn't have any sort of no-tolerance drug and alcohol policy at work or anything? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just can't imagine any workplace allowing employees to sit around and drink beer. Not just because of production but because of spills, people under 21 working in the building, and/or the liability of a drunk employee's behavior at work, or if said drunk employee leaves the building and plows into Bambi, Santa Claus, and Mother Theresa while driving home.

I'm just stunned. Sorry, but I am.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

So California doesn't have any sort of no-tolerance drug and alcohol policy at work or anything?

Not as far as i know. I mean, i imagine most companies do, but i don't believe it's a state law or policy.

I don't know if this got started during the dot bomb as a cultural thing, but that's certainly where i first encountered it. It definitely is a problem for the reasons you listed. I'd like to think that we policed each other well, and i never heard of anyone getting plastered until after they left the building.