4 pint lunch ...

[TinTrump]

I've always been crap at lunchtime drinking. Yet when I started in manufacturing it was part of the routine (but not, anecdotally, what it was in the 70s and 80s). Colleagues had bottles of spirits in desk drawers and pints at lunchtime. I just get too giggly (I was I could think of a more manly yet fitting term).

[Pogle]

I'd say that's the minimum, but good on you! It's those one pinters I'm a bit worried about...

[Jeebo72]

Oh, you seemed ok too ;-)

[Jeebo72]

I've always been crap at lunchtime drinking. Yet when I started in manufacturing it was part of the routine (but not, anecdotally, what it was in the 70s and 80s). Colleagues had bottles of spirits in desk drawers and pints at lunchtime. I just get too giggly (I was I could think of a more manly yet fitting term).

We keep a bottle of white in the fridge here for the afternoon.

[d000hg]

4 pints of what?

staropramen mmmm

That's a serious lunch-time lager. I wouldn't be able to get home after work for fear of causing a major accident on the motorway. Plus, beer or large meals at lunchtime make me sleepy.

[Iron Condor]

Best gig i had they took a 18 months to outsource a system rewrite, and we were kept in case old system fell over and needed a code patch.

I would come in at 12pm, pub lunch at 12:30. Then pub again at 3:30 till 4pm.
Home or pub again at 5:30. Bill the client for a full day.

Best contract ever.

[EternalOptimist]

Best gig i had they took a 18 months to outsource a system rewrite, and we were kept in case old system fell over and needed a code patch.

I would come in at 12pm, pub lunch at 12:30. Then pub again at 3:30 till 4pm.
Home or pub again at 5:30. Bill the client for a full day.

Best contract ever.

if thats you in the avatar, you seem to have thrived on it

[Jeebo72]

Best gig i had they took a 18 months to outsource a system rewrite, and we were kept in case old system fell over and needed a code patch.

I would come in at 12pm, pub lunch at 12:30. Then pub again at 3:30 till 4pm.
Home or pub again at 5:30. Bill the client for a full day.

Best contract ever.

All my gigs are like that. Though I tend to come in around 10

[NotAllThere]

'king 'ell.

Four pints is a major evening session for me these days. I cannot take it anymore.

Sheesh are you gay or what?

More than four pints in the evening kills me as well. It's called "getting old".

Current gig, I've never had so much champagne. And mostly decent quality. There's a champagne apero when someone leaves, arrives, goes on secondment, has a baby, reaches a milestone age, marries etc. When the head bod had his 60th, it was a full champagne breakfast for everyone.

The only problem is that the fridge fills up with champers over time from all the left overs (I know, in the UK there wouldn't be any leftovers, but we're talking about repressed Europeans here). So, every couple of years, we have an "empty the fridge" apero.

I have to say, coupled with the high rate, 20 mins from home, lack of politics and pressure, this is the best gig I (and possibly anyone) have ever had.

cheers

[DieScum]

I can never drink during the day. Especially not when at work.

Whenever I have had a pint then gone back to work I've never really been able to concentrate and just felt like rubbish. One pint is no fun anyway.