Should having a drink at work be allowed?

[Honeycombe8]

41. Nope. I'm in my 50s. Been going out to lunch nigh on 40 years. Seen thousands

upon thousands of people eating lunch.

It has been decades since I've seen anyone drinking anything alcholic at lunch, and even then...I think I saw it once.

No one that I can see drinks at lunch.

Now I HEAR that one of my friends used to drink during the day a bit, as well as take pills. He was an alcoholic. I never smelled it on him, but others told me they did, after he left the company. We're still friends, and he goes to AA now.

There also used to be a woman secretary who would drink sometimes during the day. She was eventually fired for incompetence...turned out she had a drinking problem stemming from her divorce and other problems.

I've gone out of town, working with some hearty men, all drinkers. NONE of them drank one drop during the day, even at lunch. But after work, they'd pick up a beer or whatever. Even waiting for our flight, some of the people would hit the booze booth.

If you think one beer doesn't impair you, you are in denial. It does, in fact, impair you. Not much. But it does. That is a concerning statement...it does really sound like something a person with a drinking problem would say. Here you go:

"At a .08 BAC level, drivers are so impaired that they are 11 times more likely to have a single-vehicle crash than drivers with no alcohol in their system. But 25 years of research has shown that some impairment begins for both males and females even after one drink.

.02 BAC Level
At the .02 blood alcohol concentration level, experiments have demonstrated that people exhibit some loss of judgment, begin to relax and feel good. But tests have also shown that drivers at the .02 level experience a decline in visual functions, affecting their ability to track a moving object, and experience a decline in the ability to perform two tasks at the same time. These changes may be very subtle and barely noticable to the person who has had only one drink, but in an emergency situation while behind the wheel of a vehicle, they could cause the driver to react (or not react) as they would without having had a drink."
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/dui/a/impaired.htm