To be fair, I don’t think being high around my coworkers sounds like a fun time. Drinking a few beers once a year at the Christmas party is more than enough for me
If alcohol was discovered today, it would be considered as harmful a substance as opium and it would be banned. But humans have been consuming it for thousands of years, so it’s been normalized and grandfathered into society.
We’ve been doing opium for thousands of years and still deem it harmful enough to ban. Hell, it’s bad enough that it has actually been used as a weapon in the past to destabilize nations.
Opium is being consumed for at least 5000 years, and has only been banned (mostly) in the last 150 years. In the 19th century there were two opium wars between western powers and China because the latter banned the use and import of opium. So opium was definitely grandfathered and normalized not too long ago.
Beer is arguably the foundation of human society. Grain (and the harvesting of it) is a building block of civilization, and beer is inextricably linked to that.
I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.
I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.
Or in the White House.
Duh. Everyone knows you’re supposed to lie down for a little opium. Talk about a faux pas.
Uhm, yeah?
I think you can take “coworkers” out of this shower thought. Beer = okay. Opium = not okay.
There’s a certain inherent nastiness to alcohol. A definite taint that shouts “I am poison” or “this stuff is good for cleaning engine parts”.
Opium, not so much. More of a warm floral hug.
But consuming beer is within the parameters of the law inexplicably (in most jurisdictions, as allowed by age).
With respect, it totally depends on the type of work, right?
Ya maybe. But the ubiquity of alcohol suggests that the specific substance bears too.
OP has clearly never worked in a kitchen before
I don’t even like working with my co-workers, I don’t want them to ruin anything else!
We live in a society
Listen, sometimes I bang the gong. If you can’t “handle that”, maybe it’s time you find friends that don’t work on the railroad in 1850.
Getting SO close to that dragon. You might catch him THIS time!
