So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50's. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.
And given what they lived through... well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work...
So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50's. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.
And given what they lived through... well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work...
Heck yeah. Time to go drive a fork lift
Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.
they just closed our AB brewery :(
i coulda been stapelfahrer klaus... or more likely stapelfahrer klaused
I'm not sure if you're referring to the Newark one, which just closed, or if you're somewhere else that also has one close. Strange thing, but that is time, I guess.
This was their mental health care.
I've been to startups where the liquor cabinet is open, and everyone was young and party happy.
They pay accordingly. It's the young persons pizza party
The royal navy had a similar method to maintain morale and keep sailors happy.
We had it in the RCN as well, until they stopped the tot. Pretty sure we just followed the brits on that.
You may have gotten the lash, but hey, you did get rum and sodomy too
No. They were loyal because there was a pension.
I heard my cities' shipyard used to get a truckload of beer delivered twice a day
They had a beer tap but accounting told them they were losing money from all the bathroom breaks.
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