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Study: 7 Percent of Workers Drink on Job - Yahoo! News

I used to drink on the job. Oh, it was a long, long time ago. I found that it helped me to bond with my customers. Oh, and yes, I was a bartender at the time.

This other drinking on the job -that is, people who do not work in bars- is a bit worrisome, and yet not that surprising, either. I had a friend who hated her part time receptionist job, but needed the income, so she kept the job. She also kept a small bottle of Tia Maria in her bag and added the stuff to her coffee throughout the day. By doing this, she felt like she was not only catching a little buzz while at a place she disliked, but also getting over on the man.

The article does not go into reasoning behind the drinking (ie, getting over on the boss, alcoholism, etc.), so there’s no way to know. I’d be interested in the thoughts behind the drinking, frankly. Someone who drinks because he or she has to -an alcoholic- is different than a non-alcoholic who drinks once in a while at a going-away lunch, for example. The person who drinks on the job as an act of defiance needs a different sort of help than the alcoholic.

Here’s the web site for the Research Institute on Addiction at the University of Buffalo.