Sports writers and drinking

My kids are the reason I drink.

I also drink cause of my wife.

... and my job.

 

Mine does too, but a lot of restaurants don't have them, so you just tell the beancounters they don't have them.[/quote]

Beancounters or not, I have never drank on the company's money and I never will. There is something that I find unethical about drinking on the company's dime. Maybe I'm just old fashioned or maybe I'm too strict about the subject but I don't want my employer to have one excuse to think poorly of me. I don't give them a reason to the best of my ability.
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We are allowed two drinks on the company dime.

 

Beancounters or not, I have never drank on the company's money and I never will. There is something that I find unethical about drinking on the company's dime. Maybe I'm just old fashioned or maybe I'm too strict about the subject but I don't want my employer to have one excuse to think poorly of me. I don't give them a reason to the best of my ability.
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We are allowed two drinks on the company dime.
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your company: you are allowed two drinks on the company dime.
your staff: make 'em pitchers.

 

We are allowed two drinks on the company dime.
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your company: you are allowed two drinks on the company dime.
your staff: make 'em pitchers.
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Well, I probably would have in the past Tom, but suddenly there are tons of moralists in sports journalism and I am going to be judged as a bad person for dropping a fuck bomb and having a beer after my shift, so I guess I will just say frick and have a soda pop.
Next they are going to tell me I am not allowed to smoke.

 

your company: you are allowed two drinks on the company dime.
your staff: make 'em pitchers.
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Well, I probably would have in the past Tom, but suddenly there are tons of moralists in sports journalism and I am going to be judged as a bad person for dropping a fuck bomb and having a beer after my shift, so I guess I will just say frick and have a soda pop.
Next they are going to tell me I am not allowed to smoke.
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dude, i know where you work. who in the fuck are you trying to fool? ... and i know you boys aren't above saying fuck all y'all and doing exactly what you want.

 

your company: you are allowed two drinks on the company dime.
your staff: make 'em pitchers.
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Well, I probably would have in the past Tom, but suddenly there are tons of moralists in sports journalism and I am going to be judged as a bad person for dropping a fuck bomb and having a beer after my shift, so I guess I will just say frick and have a soda pop.
Next they are going to tell me I am not allowed to smoke.
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Let me just go ahead and do it. Angola, take your smokes outside. I don't want to breathe that second-hand schatt much less smell it. You have the right to do it to yourself but not the right to even inadvertently inflict harm on others. Hope it's not too cold or doesn't rain while you're having that smoke.

Here's an idea ... quit. You'll save money, you'll live longer, your co-workers will appreciate you for it and when your wife or girlfriend kisses you she wont think to herself that you taste like an ash tray.

 

Thanks Huckleberry. I really give a shit whether you like me smoking or not. I have no problem with bars and restaurants going smoke free and I have no problem going outside.
I just enjoy how you continuously try to claim on this thread you aren't judging co-workers for drinking, yet that is consistently what you are doing throughout.

 

There's a joke to be made here, but I'm trying to man up and avoid it.

 

Good point Angola. I've almost mastered the art of being a hypocrate. Not quite there yet, but close. And anyways dude, I was just jerking your chain. Unfortunately, you responded, just like I figured.

Smoke all you want. It's your life. Glad to see you do respect others' right to smoke-free environments. That's refreshing (no pun intended). From the tone of your first post, it sounded like you were pissed at the world over the change in smoking laws the last couple of decades.

I stand corrected.

 

do you often wonder why your coworkers hate you?

 

I'm not a smoker, but banning smokers from fucking bars is ridiculous. Bars are supposed to be havens for drinking and smoking and general world-forgetting. So what if my clothes smell when I get home, I had a good fucking time.
No one I know has died from lung cancer from secondhand smoke. Everyday people find new things that can kill you. Heck, I read a story that fucking copier toner causes cancer.
There is a serious shitty attitude toward smokers, just because a bunch of people want to feel superior to others. The best fucking people I've ever met were smokers.

Here's one rule: Don't put your cigarette out on another person's skin.

 

I learned in college that I have no tolerance for alcohol, despite my overly immense stature. It extends to anything stronger than a tylenol, too. If I have NyQuil, I'm utterly useless for the next 36 hours.

That being the case, I've found a line where I'm buzzed and feeling good after three-four beers. Unless it's an overly momentous occassion, I don't cross that line.