Lunchtime pints while working

Holy hour. Lock in. Those were the days.

Have only experienced it as normal, and acceptable, when working “off site” up north.

Frowned upon down here, unless it’s around Christmas time.

never heard it as being a thing here.

in France it’s very commonplace however.

the canteen I worked in, in a job there had about 4 different wines as well as bottles of beer and a draught self serving machine. You just put your plastic glass underneath and held the button pressed…

most jobs here the contract would prohibit it… it’s commonplace to stipulate a 10 or 11 gap between last drink and commencement of work.

It does happen, but it seems to be pretty rare these days.

Most people I know of wouldn't even think of it, I knew a few that'd do it/did it semi-regularly - more than one of those had problems with booze. Not trying to generalise that if you have a pint on your lunch that you are automatically an alco, but, in my own experience, many people who did it regularly were also problematic drinkers.

I think there's been an uptick in popularity since remote working has come in. I've taken the laptop for lunch on a friday, ate and had a few points, a did a few hours in the back corner before packing it up at half 4 or 5, supping a few pints through the afternoon.

eh it wasnt a common thing in ireland before covid? for all the bullshit other countries talk about our drinking, we're one of those that don't have a culture of accepting people drinking alcohol at lunch during a workday

Did similar during the 00s. Once a week on Friday lunchtime pint with food. We kept it to one though.

That’s it. If management here hear you were drinking at lunchtime it would raise questions.

I don’t know about you but if I have 4 pints at lunch and then have to go back to work I’d be falling asleep.

Used to do it back in 2000/2001. Few pints with pub grub on Friday (payday). Back im the office at 2 and back out the door to the pub by 4.30.

Saying that you'd get 3 pints for a tenner back then...ahh the good ol days

Throw in a few commas, ffs, theyre free....

There's plenty of useless ones even without a drink at lunchtime.

We did that too. Team leaders were aware but it was very much don't f*ck it up, so only usually one drink , maybe two for the more seasoned.

In the UK sure, did it many times

Never ever did it Dublin. For all the taking about Irish and drinking it just is not done

Common in New York among construction workers and others

actually among alot of americans

Drink working / driving was part of the culture

Common when I started office work in the 90s. Friday lunchtime - payday - we'd all head to the pub, maybe 3 pints and a sandwich (or maybe just a packet of peanuts). Back to work for 2-ish. Four o'clock, all back over to the pub!

I've had a personal treat thing the last 12 years or so - Friday lunchtime, I still try to get to the pub for a bite to eat (a decent lunch these days!) and a pint. Just the one, though. No stamina any more!

The whole drinking culture in Ireland is gone in the small towns anyway no body out in the evening after work, never mind midday, wouldn't be fit for much myself anyway after a few pints, back in the old days when they were building the towns and the streets and the blocks of houses the first thing they built was the pub in the corner for the workers and the rest of the street got built after that.

Worked in a telecoms company in the early 00’s and it wasn’t unusual to have a pint or two with lunch. It’s frowned upon where I am now but I’ve still taken the lappy to the local a few times for a steak and pint 😝

There was a episode of Time Team a number of years ago where they did an archeological dig on an industrial revolution era railway works in the north of England.

One of the team had to live and work as a railway labourer, a naviee, for a few days .

He was pissed by lunchtime the first day, the amount of beer that was part of the standard diet for that type of workers at the time was too much for him.