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.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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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
It's a shame, really.
Back in my restaurant days, hanging out after and getting loose really made everyone work together better.
Though I can't see doing this in a business environment - it's just not the same.
Fuck my bigot coworkers.
I avoid working with them.
In my restaraunt experience, those parties worked because it was organic. Part of it is that you're probably working nights and weekends, making it harder to socialize with people outside your industry or similar CS professions. Part of it is overlap in demographic, probably being under 25, in school or recent graduate, from the same town or 2, and have similar incomes, which dictates affordability of activities.
Moving into a regular office environment means your off-hours are the same as the rest of the working population. All different incomes, ages, kid counts, living locations, etc. At my job, the core department has pretty good overlap and after-hours things are generally organized by department heads. They recognize the cohesion. But sometimes, HR takes a crack at a company-wide gig and it's awkward. Not drastically, as it's only about 70 people, but we fall into the preexisting groups, mostly based on department. It's fine when it's the Christmas party during normal hours, but it just doesn't work when it's a bar after hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah its like just having a nice little relaxing smoke of crack. I mean its not blue peter.
To be fair, crack is really more-ish
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.
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.
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.
So this is just about you really liking opium rather than anything to do with work colleagues
I'm pointing out an incongruity between popular opinion and objective fact.
But consuming beer is within the parameters of the law inexplicably (in most jurisdictions, as allowed by age).
Uhm, yeah?
You should have seen some of the work cocaine parties I've seen. But granted, I've never seen a work-related opium event.
I don't even like working with my co-workers, I don't want them to ruin anything else!
OP has clearly never worked in a kitchen before
Getting SO close to that dragon. You might catch him THIS time!