Or, “whatever happened to Homer’s dream job?”
highlighting is mine
So, now they just have to learn how to chug during lunchtime, right?
A compromise agreement could be beer pong tables in the lunchroom.
You can’t have employees all hopped up at work.
They knew trouble was brewing
I knew some brewery workers in Baltimore, MD back in the 70s. They worked at a brewery that had been National Brewing, then became a Carling plant. There was beer on tap in that factory 24/7. Machinery operators, forklift drivers, everybody who wanted to drank all day. I don’t recall when that policy changed.
I have visited various manufacturing plants (not breweries) throughout Europe. Having beer available in the canteen (lunchroom) is very common. As an American, it just seemed extremely odd that allowing people that operate large dangerous machinery with moving parts have alcohol on their breaks and at lunch.
I worked at a manufacturing facility in Baltimore (Locust Point) from 1992-1995. Apparently not long before I got there everyone used to go to the little pubs/bars in the neighborhood and get their drink on at lunch. At the time there was no rule against it. When the company started getting more serious about safety that was one of the first things to go. Still was not uncommon to bust some guys for drinking, but at least everyone knew that they weren’t allowed to do so. After work was a different matter, of course.
A buddy of mine was an iron worker. He told me that after walking around dozens of stories in the air all morning, many of his coworkers would consume as much alcohol and smoke all through lunch break.
How long have you had that idea bottled up?
I’d be hopping mad if I were one of those workers.
Maybe less beer will make the workers less stout.
this is yeasterdays news…
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Or in most of Corporate America, even let them have one beer, at lunch, when the group goes out. I could really see how this worked out; about the only time I saw anyone order alcohol was the woman whose husbands family ran a large local chain of motor supply stores, and she soon left to work there. But she hadn’t decided to do so at the time. Yes, I know, it’s not normal to want alcohol in the middle of the day, but with a better than ordinary lunch you do want it sometimes, if you drink.
In much of Europe, having a glass of wine or a beer with lunch is normal. Take into account that in many European countries it’s the largest meal of the day, too. Having a beer with a one-egg omelette (dinner) would be more likely to give someone a buzz than having it with a plate of spaghetti-and-meatballs followed by a steak, one apple and a thick slice of cheese (lunch).
And with that, my hopes for normalcy were dashed.
AFAIK no one goes out to lunch on a regular basis where I work now, but drinking at lunch wasn’t at all unusual a few years ago, at least in the engineering/manufacturing industry.
This new policy must leave a bitter taste.