Should having a drink at work be allowed?

[OriginalGeek]

43. So here we have 2 instances of anecdotal evidence

I see drinking, you don't. I feel pretty safe in saying that the number of drinkers at lunch in America is somewhere between nobody and everybody. (Although, to be fair, I never said "everybody&quot

Also I never said 1 beer doesn't impair you. I said by the time you have had it, eaten your lunch, shot the bull with friends/co-workers and gotten back to your office, your emailing capabilities are not very much in danger. In fact, I expressly said it does make a difference as to what type of work you are in. I excluded my former employees who operated heavy machinery from drinking. Because the risk of a beer at lunch impairing them would be too great.

It seems like you have had some bad experiences with drinkers in the past but that doesn't mean your experience is the most common. (And neither is mine). Stop trying to project your situations with alcoholics onto me. I never said there are no alcoholics or that it is not a problem anywhere. All I said is that a beer at lunch isn't a terrible thing. I don't know why your beefy friends chose not to have a beer at lunch - perhaps they knew you and were simply being respectful of you. Maybe they just don't like to drink at lunch. But that doesn't automatically make them morally superior to someone who does.

Cheers!