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Where I work the guy in the cube over has a beer fridge under his desk. Before the down turn there used to be a company provided keg every Friday at 4pm, and by VP has a big beer fridge hidden in a filing cabinet! For "conservative" Ottawa where I work there are plenty of folk that like a beer!

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Same here. Although most of them wouldn't think twice about haveing 3 or 4 beers and then driving home....

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i'll second that!!!!!! Lunchtime drinking is viewed here IMO second only in severity to murder, yet driving home whilst s******d at 2 in the morning just understood as something you do :blink:

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It's so they can gossip about the non-drinkers and plot their ascent up the career ladder, usually because somebody of influence is also a drinker.

I can't make it through the day without a quick tug at regular intervals ... the scheduling of my average 9 to 5 is horrendous.

Especially when I'm doing open heart surgery.

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You're not wrong there. The watering holes downtown are all packed at lunchtime. I was a bit surprised to see people in uniform boozing but apparently it's allowed.

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Here its a teaspoon of normal beer and bye bye driving licence. Most people have to drive to work so no-one drinks at lunchtime. We do have a very light beer which is almost a fizzy drink that tastes of beer.

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Not normal in the UK so much anymore lots of companys have a no alchol at lunch time policy.

Where I worked prior to coming over last year, a drink at lunch time was a sure way to getting the tin tack.

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That's not my experience where I am in the UK, in our company a Friday lunchtime trip to the pub is normal, and from what I see in the pubs in our town, we're certainly not the only company doing it. I think it's pretty much "each to their own" - some companies allow it, I assume just as many don't.

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This isn't my experience either. People I worked with would fairly regularly have a pint or two at lunch, and given how busy the pubs were, we weren't the only ones.

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I'm actually surprised by how large the 'it's unprofessional' result is. Wasn't expecting that.

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I guess that depends upon how face to face one's work is. It would be considered totally unprofessional in my office but, if one worked in a call centre, etc and one wasn't totally pissed, I guess it would be deemed less so.

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I guess so. I work in an office, but don't have to deal with the hoi polloi which makes slacking off and laziness quite easy. Still, back in the day I've been on site and had pub lunches with clients without any problems.

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While it's frowned on in my current company, it wouldn't be a formal disciplinary thing. The rules are also somewhat different when lunching with clients or suppliers. I was taken to lunch by a supplier the other week. Our account exec made it pretty clear, by tone if not words, that he would welcome the opportunity to have a beer, but wouldn't unless we joined him. I selflessly took the plunge.

Having said that, I'm so far out of practice on the whole lunchtime drinking thing that even a single beer with lunch pretty much put paid to a productive afternoon. I really could have done with an hour or so's snooze at around 3pm. :zzz:

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I have been for beers with my Canadian co-workers (I really hate that word) and after two beers, or after merely inhaling Guiness etc, they are usually pissed anyway, which may account for their lack of wish to do so at lunchtime:D

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Wow, and here I am wishing I could get anyone to go for a drink AFTER work. They seem to all prefer going for a coffee and during a three month contract I could not get anyone into a bar.

Back in London a pint at lunch is considered the norm I think. Well, judging by the number of people in the pubs at lunch on a daily basis anyway.

My best ever lunchtime session....

We had just finished Phase 1 of a multi phase project with a legal firm and their director pulled me and my colleague off our desks and said he was taking us to the pub on him. That was around 2pm and we both left the pub at sometime around 10pm absolutely blitzed.

Sometime during this our Project Manager showed up and tried to give us a hard time as we should be working but he also failed to deny that same director and he also ended up blitzed.

Great day.... :-)