Wait, what’s this? Drinking after work with your colleagues is a regular weekly thing in Britain?
Why would you do that?
I don’t even spend time with my best friend every week.
I’ve worked in jobs where my colleagues are good friends of mine, and other jobs where my colleagues are just colleagues and nothing more.
I’m lucky to currently work with people I genuinely get on very well with. I don’t go out for after work drinks with them (because I have small children and lots to do and no money), but I’d happily wile away an evening in the pub with them when it comes up.
I had a job as a usian at a high street UK retail company that expanded into the US in the 10s. When the UK managers were going over the handbook before opening the store they told us we had an hour unpayed lunch, which blew our American minds. At least in retail you usually get only 30 unpayed minutes for a shift over 6 hours.
Then they apologetically said we could only have two alcoholic drinks on our lunch and management was so confused when we all gasped and cheered.
Many low level retail/office jobs would get you canned for clocking back in from lunch smelling like booze.
My perspective is it used to be a thing but then we all started commuting to get to our jobs so it stopped. Most people working in London don’t drive for their commute so it could continue
It depends a great deal on where you work, but it’s definitely not unknown. It’s not normally an all-evening heavy-going night though, much as Britain loves a binge drink that’s usually saved for the weekends
It used to be more common. Back in the 90s when I was working in an office we’d often head to the pub for Friday lunchtime and roll in later in the afternoon. Going along for a free lunch and a few beers with visiting sales reps was also pretty common.
I couldn’t do it now - the thought of nursing a proto hangover before I’ve even got home seems insane in retrospect. God knows how much productivity used to be wasted due to work time tipples.
It’s pretty entertained in USA culture as well. I feel not having any attacks on US soil during the war didn’t lend any need for community building endeavors, whether public health, public transport, or public shelter. It’s easier to instill greed/fear of lack or fear in general, as well as cynicism and distrust of our neighbors the more separate and divided they can make us. Long hours, low wages and laws designed to protect business rather than workers perpetuate and compound the issues.
The House of Lords isn’t a political issue? Trying to force people back into the office to keep the rich wealthy isn’t a political issue? Have a word with yourself super hero.
Wait, what’s this? Drinking after work with your colleagues is a regular weekly thing in Britain?
Why would you do that?
I don’t even spend time with my best friend every week.
I’ve worked in jobs where my colleagues are good friends of mine, and other jobs where my colleagues are just colleagues and nothing more.
I’m lucky to currently work with people I genuinely get on very well with. I don’t go out for after work drinks with them (because I have small children and lots to do and no money), but I’d happily wile away an evening in the pub with them when it comes up.
It used to be a major thing, even pub lunches during your shift, go out for a pint and some food at lunch and then go back to work afterwards
I had a job as a usian at a high street UK retail company that expanded into the US in the 10s. When the UK managers were going over the handbook before opening the store they told us we had an hour unpayed lunch, which blew our American minds. At least in retail you usually get only 30 unpayed minutes for a shift over 6 hours.
Then they apologetically said we could only have two alcoholic drinks on our lunch and management was so confused when we all gasped and cheered.
Many low level retail/office jobs would get you canned for clocking back in from lunch smelling like booze.
My perspective is it used to be a thing but then we all started commuting to get to our jobs so it stopped. Most people working in London don’t drive for their commute so it could continue
As a chef in the UK, it was pretty much after every shift till closing in the pub next door.
It depends a great deal on where you work, but it’s definitely not unknown. It’s not normally an all-evening heavy-going night though, much as Britain loves a binge drink that’s usually saved for the weekends
It used to be more common. Back in the 90s when I was working in an office we’d often head to the pub for Friday lunchtime and roll in later in the afternoon. Going along for a free lunch and a few beers with visiting sales reps was also pretty common.
I couldn’t do it now - the thought of nursing a proto hangover before I’ve even got home seems insane in retrospect. God knows how much productivity used to be wasted due to work time tipples.
That fits with my personal experience that it tends to be older members of the places I’ve worked at that suggest and/or actually go for it
Posting in UK Politics without even cursory knowledge of British culture is wild. Either way, drinking is engrained in British culture.
It’s pretty entertained in USA culture as well. I feel not having any attacks on US soil during the war didn’t lend any need for community building endeavors, whether public health, public transport, or public shelter. It’s easier to instill greed/fear of lack or fear in general, as well as cynicism and distrust of our neighbors the more separate and divided they can make us. Long hours, low wages and laws designed to protect business rather than workers perpetuate and compound the issues.
And it’s wild to think after work drinks are somehow an alien thing. It’s a thing pretty much everywhere.
I’m not posting, I’m commenting.
And Lemmy is much too small to gatekeep communities.
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s having basic respect to at least post with some basic knowledge of what you’re posting on.
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The House of Lords isn’t a political issue? Trying to force people back into the office to keep the rich wealthy isn’t a political issue? Have a word with yourself super hero.
Personally yeah. I’ll also see my family/ various friends, a couple times a week too. But then I do consider myself an extremely social person.