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MMM the age old problem of when is it acceptable to start drinking when working away.
I worked in Glasgow on they shut the place I was at at 4.30 - no exceptions - so back in hotel by 4.45
No real work to do in the evening so just twiddling my thumbs
Having said that it was in Glasgow so i suppose 4.45 is quite late to start drinking.
When I was at Yahoo! on Shaftesbury Avenue, I could work until about half-eight in the evening, as the building was staffed 24/7. So I'd do a long day, then head down past Seven Dials to the Harp, and with the extra hours I'd done I was able to head home at lunchtime on Friday.
Then I went to GCap (aka Capital Radio) on Leicester Square which was also open 24/7, so I was able to do the same there - though the Harp was even closer
And before those I'd been at GCap in Bristol (aka GWR FM) for two years and had done the same thing there for the eight months I worked on site before switching to working from home.
In Bristol, Sally and Kevin, the DJs who did the evening network show, would stop for a chat (my desk was between their desks and the studio) as they were going in to start the show, or when one of them popped out of the studio for something. It was quite cool to be listening to the radio playing in the office knowing it was two people you'd just been chatting to, now sat a few feet away - I could get up from my desk, walk five paces, and wave at them through the studio window (though I didn't, because that would have been weird)
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