Would drinking alcohol free beer at your desk be frowned upon?

Wheety

If you were to crack open a bottle or can of alcohol free beer at your desk, how would your colleagues react? Would your manager say anything?

And I don't mean because alcohol free beer is disgusting etc.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I can’t imagine why, if it’s alcohol free.
Though once we convinced the class idiot that blue Powerade was blue wkd and she chugged it and fell around the place “locked” for the afternoon ��

eezipc

I always think the same about driving. How would the gardai react if you are stopped at a checkpoint and start swigging from a bottle of Heineken 0.0?

Omackeral

Drinking alcohol-free beer is similar to going down on your cousin. It tastes the same but it's just wrong.

judeboy101

No such thing as 100% alcohol free beer, at least not outside of star trek.

SilverTom

Wheety wrote:

If you were to crack open a bottle or can of alcohol free beer at your desk, how would your colleagues react? Would your manager say anything?

Your a heat seaker, I'd love if we worked together I could get away with anything when I'm beside you drawing all the heat.

frag420

Omackeral wrote: »

Drinking alcohol-free beer is similar to going down on your cousin. It tastes the same but it's just wrong.

Personal issues that way

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seachto7

Omackeral wrote: »

Drinking alcohol-free beer is similar to going down on your cousin. It tastes the same but it's just wrong.

What's wrong about it?

Pug160

The only thing I've really heard about it is that some people seem to drink it after exercise as a recovery drink. I'm guessing only a very small minority would use it for that purpose though.

Omackeral

seachto7 wrote: »

What's wrong about it?

I shouldn't have to tell you :eek:

frag420

seachto7 wrote: »

What's wrong about it?

The weird look your uncle gives you as your cousin starts to hitch up her skirt...

mloc123

In our office people drink actual beer at their desk...

seachto7

What's wrong with non alcho beer is what I meant. Do you drink it for the taste or for the kick?

gozunda

seachto7 wrote: »

What's wrong with non alcho beer is what I meant. Do you drink it for the taste or for the kick?

The Guinness alcohol free beer tastes fantastic imo ...

Ipso

For god sake, eat a vegetarian curry while you're at it.

frag420

frag420 wrote: »

Personal issues that way

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Yes, you definitely have issues if you think going down on your cousin is wrong...


As for drinking at your desk, it smells the same as beer so yeah, there could be problems obviously in terms of representing your company, and it makes you look like an alco so it will bring attention to you. It's a really bad idea.

Omackeral

seachto7 wrote: »

What's wrong with non alcho beer is what I meant.

Cos it's like going down on your cousin.

Hector Savage

Never mind alcohol free beer, I drink regular beer at my desk at work ... while watching the footie ...

frag420

Or ogling your daughter before commenting that you would date your daughter if she wasn't your daughter...someone who thinks like that definitely has issues wouldn't you think!? Imagine if someone that sick was in charge of say....a country :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes, you definitely have issues if you think going down on your cousin is wrong...


As for drinking at your desk, it smells the same as beer so yeah, there could be problems obviously in terms of representing your company, and it makes you look like an alco so it will bring attention to you. It's a really bad idea.

frag420

frag420 wrote: »

Or ogling your daughter before commenting that you would date your daughter if she wasn't your daughter...someone who thinks like that definitely has issues wouldn't you think!? Imagine if someone that sick was in charge of say....a country :eek::eek::eek::eek:

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KaneToad

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Would drinking alcohol free beer at your desk be frowned upon?

kylith

gozunda wrote: »

seachto7 wrote: »

What's wrong with non alcho beer is what I meant. Do you drink it for the taste or for the kick?

The Guinness alcohol free beer tastes fantastic imo ...

It’s not bad. Nanny State is delist too.

I drink alcohol free cos I’m pregnant, but in the past i’ve Drunk or cos I like beer but I don’t want to get more drunk, or because I'm driving.

Just a shame the only one you can reliably get is Erdinger, which is absolutely revolting.

jimd2

Omackeral wrote: »

Drinking alcohol-free beer is similar to going down on your cousin. It tastes the same but it's just wrong.

Nice soundbite mate and you get a load of likes but it's not the same and nothing whatsover wrong with it.

doolox

When I joined my first large company after working on my own as a self employed milkman for a number of years, I had a number of adjustments to make.

One was always looking busy and productive at work at all times.

The other was not to engage in any activity which could be misconstrued as being against the rules or conventions of the modern workplace.

Ireland, for good or ill, imitates the US in many of its work customs and this includes a strict prohibition against drinking in the workplace in most employments.

Especially in customer fronting roles where the public are at large, optics are everything. Workers may not like it and may resent it but that is the way it is. If a boss sees a worker drinking what looks like alcohol he will assume the worst and form a negative opinion about that worker. Why draw fire on yourself?

Happily I am once more back in self employment after 30 yrs of employment in large US multinationals where optics and office politics were everywhere and the lack of control of everything in my work environment was overpowering.

I feel I am much more suited to being a lone wolf.

AllForIt

judeboy101 wrote: »

No such thing as 100% alcohol free beer, at least not outside of star trek.

Star trek isn't real either :pac:

Hector Bellend

love the gargle

Atoms for Peace

AllForIt wrote: »

Star trek isn't real either :pac:

But it's set in a galaxy far far away so how could you possibility be sure?

Cedrus

I used to take Aqua Libra to work until some busybody reported me for drinking wine on the job. Anyone you're working with will know that your beer is alcohol free but it's the sh!tebags from other departments that will get odd about it.

doolox

The specification of allowed beverage during the infamous US prohibition was 0.5% compared to ordinary beer at 5% alcohol by volume.

The lunacy of total prohibition was sold on a gullible american public by claiming that beer would be allowed and all stronger alcoholic drinks would be banned. This level of prohibition was tolerable to a majority of Americans at that time.

The real truth that came about under the Volstead act, pushed by lunatic, fanatic religious fundamentalists was the lower limit of 0.5%. This led to the corruption and disturbance of the US body politic, gangsterism and its attendant death and violence and indirectly to the Great Depression of the 1930's. Illegal booze was not subject to ANY quality control and the profits made went directly to gangland hoodlums enrichment and empowerment. A parallel which we can see in the current futile "war on drugs" including mild drugs in the prohibition alongside infinitely more lethal and dangerous hard drugs.

Only the US has insisted on a total ban on all narcotics and has influenced other jurisdictions to do likewise. This has led to the present near civil wars in Central and South America, to gangland violence in Dublin and Limerick and to countless other episodes of violence worldwide and to America having the highest rates of incarceration in the planet.

Overbearing prohibition of anything can have catastrophic effects. Pity the Americans would not go into Gun Control with the same zeal they apply to drug control, a war that cannot be won.

cbyrd

Before I told my older kids I was pregnant I was having a Becks blue before breakfast cos it settled my tummy and then I was craving it.. lol. Poor kids thought it was proper beer
Don't drink at all now, turned into a dry shyte.

Donald Trump

frag420 wrote: »

Or ogling your daughter before commenting that you would date your daughter if she wasn't your daughter...someone who thinks like that definitely has issues wouldn't you think!? Imagine if someone that sick was in charge of say....a country :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Feck off.




If you had a daughter like Ivanka you'd be gagging for an oul' go on her too

Pyr0

Omackeral wrote: »

Cos it's like going down on your cousin.

Are we talking about a first cousin or a second cousin here?

TheValeyard

Pyr0 wrote: »

Are we talking about a first cousin or a second cousin here?

Shelbyville

Mrcaramelchoc

jimd2 wrote: »

Nice soundbite mate and you get a load of likes but it's not the same and nothing whatsover wrong with it.

Anything for a few thanks.

jester77

Doubt it.

I've a fridge full of beer beside my desk, and 3 bottles of whisky on my desk. Once 4pm clicks, we usually have a few. Everyone is ok with it.

Snotty

I can think of no logical reason to drink non - alcohol beer in work, so if I seen someone drinking it, I would assume they have a drink problem. If it was one of my team, I'd tell them to stop straight away as if management seen them, they'd be "transfered" to a ****ty job straight away