August 2006 Weddings
caden
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NER: I really wish I could drink at work
I'd set it up Mad Men style with a nice bar and everything. *sigh*
Are there jobs where people do that IRL?
Re: NER: I really wish I could drink at work
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I *literally* just had this coveration with a colleague. I said we all needed to raid the bottle of scotch in his office, which is, sadly unopened.
How's this - we are re-submitting a very large grant application, and the administrator that handles the budget changed the budget substantially - when really nothing should have changed. Why? She just confessed that it is different because the one we submitted to the foundation 6 months ago... WAS WRONG! ARG!
Anyway.... yes.... cheers
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
Where's jlaj?
At the investment bank we'd have Beer Fridays. Every Friday at 4 there would be alcohol and refreshments for the floor. The cost was only like $200/week before y'all start attacking the bank - that's one of the few things they did right!
One of my former bosses at the law firm where I work again started a charitable non-profit as his pro-bono work. When they have their board meetings here, they always order beer and snacks (I know b/c I used to make the conference requests).
Basically, you just need to work with clients, recruiting, or internal corporate morale.
I don't watch Mad Men, but man do I need a drink right now. My normally nice senior guys are getting on my last nerves today.
At my old job, we used to have liquid lunches if things got really bad. Alas, that is not the case at my current place of employment unless we have a business meeting. One time, my boss actually tried to pressure me into drinking at a lunch function. Oh where are those days now????
Ahh the joys of working from home.
?::cracks open a cold one::?
Deductive reasoning isn't a conservative or liberal attribute. ~epphd
You're a bad person. We're all suffering here!
I've heard some firms have DAILY happy hours.
Woah, that sucks. I know how stressful an audit can be. I had to deal with a DEA audit at my old job (I worked for a drug company). The DEA doesn't mess around!
That settles it. I am in the wrong field.
Ooh, audits stink. Hope they get out soon!
I'm pretty sure I will be drinking at this job soon, or at least as soon as I get home. Hate, hate, hate my new position. I feel like I'm back in law school, and that's on the better assignments.
So make mine a double!
You guys need to come work for a start up in Silicon Valley. It's a real culture change when you get big enough that you can't have the fridge stocked with beer. Although it still feels weird. If people are regularly drinking that beer, they're doing it where I can't see them.
So theoretically I could
. But I'm with you in spirit.
Ooh, that reminds me - at my first job, I was the beer monkey, since I was fresh out of college and not an engineer.
I was out visiting a store location that carried our products and needed to get beer for our all-hands while I was out. I see this giant store called 99 Ranch Market, and I figure they've got to have beer. I drive into the parking lot, and none of the signs are in English. As I'm walking towards the door, it crosses my mind that no one around me looks like me, but whatevs, I continue inside, totally oblivious. I walk in the door and BAM! I'm transported to Asia.
It's actually a pretty great store, and I had been looking for wonton wrappers (though I still couldn't find them, 'cause I couldn't read the packages), but it was a very sheltered white girl moment. Obviously, I ended up with a pretty sad selection of beer.
When I worked at a law firm, they had weekly happy hours but the associates always tried their damndest to get late meetings with alcohol every day.
As far as free meals go, I ate on the company's tab every day for 3 years (lunch and dinner). They made me work by butt off, you better believe I got every perk they were going to give me.
1st shift support staff who work past 8 get free dinner (up to $25 on seamlessweb), and attorneys who work at least 9 hours (?) get free dinner (up to $35). Not sure about drinks, though. If you want drinks, take out a client or a recruit.... or have a meeting with a deal team and bill the client.
How can you work in this neighborhood and not use seamlessweb?? I bet America to Go is a client of yours or something. I've never even heard of it (and I'm all about online ordering websites).
It all went downhill after I got married, because then I actually wanted to go home and have dinner with my husband. Shocking, I know.
This explains a lot.
sorry you're having a bad day caden
we actually do have a designated beer fridge (think college dorm size) back on the "employee" side of our office. Beers are cracked open usually at quarter ends which just happens to be this week
and we have OJ here so I gave my boss some mini bottles of vodka for Christmas. He doesn't drink those often, but I just may sneak in and use them myself 
Oooof. That blows. When I worked at Yale, the university was under federal audit - still is, actually. An admin literally spent 90 minutes with a federal auditor explaining why a $15 box of kimwipes (lab tissue paper) was allocated to one NIH grant and not among three NIH grants. It was horrifying. And that was at least our gov. I can't imagine explaining these things to a foreign auditor!! I hope your day ends soon!
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
Dudette, this is the exact reason why I refuse to work past a certain time these days. I want good food and I don't get it from America To Go. I never heard of it either until I got here. All of the law firms and banks I know use Seamlessweb instead. ::le sigh::
I own my company, and I'd LOVE to be able to drink at work. Alas, we work with kids, so I think it would be frowned upon.
Last night I left work early and went to a fundraiser for the local schools (met and talked to Tyler Florence. Also got two of his new cookbooks signed!) and I had a few glasses of wine. I then had to come back to work to get my husband, and there were still a few kids here. I tried to keep my distance because I didn't want to smell like booze!