My favourite one is being anonymously called up on “excessive swearing” when I said “crap” once in a meeting. Our internal training basically encourages people to snitch on each other and by god do we gave some hall monitors here.

Normalize getting crunk with your coworkers

Lol some of the worst binge drinking sprees and some of the most embarrassing shit I've done while drunk were with my coworkers on that horrible white collar job I had. Then again, the corporate culture very much encouraged getting hammered at every opportunity to forget you were working 14 hour days (of bullshit work) regularly.

So you’re saying a dog can play basketball

Drinking on the job is almost universally a terminable offense

capitalists don’t want alcohol to impede the productivity of their workers

(this is not a defense of alcohol)

In Europe the culture is borderline the complete opposite. Unless you're doing an actually responsible/driving job, if you can't keep up with work lunch drinks you ain't workin' right.

I think I even have something about that in my contract.

Abeerycan

I understood it to be more along the lines of "I'm quitting anyway fuck it" rather than an alcohol problem. I try not to make assumptions about peoples habits

If we treat it as a problem rather than him just being irresponsible than it's even more reprehensible for hr to give him shit about it.

Is consuming four beers at a work party lunch automatically an alcohol problem? In which case half of Europe are addicts. I think super context dependent.