Same here. I don't think I've ever been offered more beer than at the last in-person job I had. Our employee handbook had an alcohol use policy that boiled down to "if you wanna drink on the job, you can, just don't be sloppy about it."
A friend of mine worked at a high-end car dealership. At one point, management caught wind of cocaine use and announced that there would be drug tests in two weeks' time. The entire sales department failed. Management said "okay guys we're going to pretend that the test must have been wrong, you can't all be on coke. We'll do the test again in two weeks." Two weeks and some days later, they were all fired. I've been aware of several day-drinkers at a variety of jobs. Cannabis too. On-site work comes with daily drinking and drug habits.
And the alcoholics (as in people
suffering from the disease) at Google would milk our kegs all day long… it was unfortunate how many kegs we had to buy to maintain their drinking habits. It stretched our building’s decorations budget to the max. Nothing compared to the stash the info sec people compiled in Crittenden though. That was insane but knowing what I know about Defcon there is more than enough of this substance abuse normalization.
Had to stop reading after the first paragraph, conflating "remote" work with day drinking and otherwise being irresponsible is disingenuous at best - some of us have been "remote" working (otherwise known as just normal situations depending on employer) for decades, that doesn't mean we get high all day, that's a problem with culture and (IMO) legalising drugs which have no place being so.
For the first year of Covid I was trying to drink more water. So I bought a lot of glass spelligrino bottles and would drink 1-2 every day. I would usually squirt some mio in it for caffeine and flavor.
And I would drink through the day while on zoom just doing normal meeting stuff. And since I fidget, I would peel the labels off.
After a few months someone asked how I could drink so much wine without getting drunk. I thought it was funny how people just assumed I was brazenly drinking wine out of the bottle all day.
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I'm actually planning on a return to the office, and I'll have an old timey-mad-men-esq bar in my office.
And I would drink through the day while on zoom just doing normal meeting stuff. And since I fidget, I would peel the labels off.
After a few months someone asked how I could drink so much wine without getting drunk. I thought it was funny how people just assumed I was brazenly drinking wine out of the bottle all day.