How relaxed can you be at work?

Have to start by telling you that I work in a private elderly home in Helsinki as a chef. The avarge age of our customers is 88 years old, the oldest customer is 103 years old and still going strong.

We had to day a birthday party to one of our customer turned 88 years, well he´s wish for birthday food was bratwurst with creamy potatoes etc. with beer and red wine to dessert we had ice cream coffe and blackberry liquor.

Everything whent fine at lunch and everybody had a good time.We who work there have allways, when we serve alcohol often wine, taken a glass wine with food as today too.
Afetr the lunch we had a little bet with one of the nurses, who can drink one bottle of beer fastes.
well we did it and I won, earned 5 euros

Well can you be as relaxed about having a glass wine when you work with out you have your boss on you?

Well, I'm not my own boss, but I have my own office and my boss hardly ever shows up. Occasionally some of my colleagues drop in to ask something or just have a chat. But all in all, I can be pretty relaxed at work, in fact if I fell asleep for an hour or two probably nobody would notice
I had alcohol before but it really screws my productivity so I usually refrain from having some while at work (it wouldn't be a problem though...).

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Originally posted by kyosho

Well can you be as relaxed about having a glass wine when you work with out you have your boss on you?

Trying to parse your last sentence, I'd say you had more than one glass of wine

pretending to have a meeting on a Friday afternoon and playing golf instead is pretty relaxing !!!

my work is pretty relaxed, i work in an office/factory environment....but i do all my work in my office, i come in 90 mins late, and no one says anything, i can have lunch when i want....we have a BBQ at least once a month. The boss pays for the meat, onions, eggs and bread...all we do is show up.

We have beer friday, were we are allowed to drink beer after 3pm. Our boss pays for the beer too.

As long as i get my work done, no one complains, i do most of my WBW surfing while at work

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Originally posted by woodsworth

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Well can you be as relaxed about having a glass wine when you work with out you have your boss on you?

Trying to parse your last sentence, I'd say you had more than one glass of wine
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my english isn´t the best
and no it isn´t from the beer, had drive home from work today.

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Originally posted by Latino

my work is pretty relaxed, i work in an office/factory environment....but i do all my work in my office, i come in 90 mins late, and no one says anything, i can have lunch when i want....we have a BBQ at least once a month. The boss pays for the meat, onions, eggs and bread...all we do is show up.

We have beer friday, were we are allowed to drink beer after 3pm. Our boss pays for the beer too.

As long as i get my work done, no one complains, i do most of my WBW surfing while at work

not bad, not bad at all, love your work

It would have to be some sort of holiday, but we have had drinks during work hours before. It would not happen on a daily basis here though.

being self employed, i can do whatever the fuck i want. too bad i dont make any bucks whilst i do what i want

Where I work now, no way in hell. They are way to uptight with rules to allow a little drinking.

But when I worked in a restaurant it wasn't a big deal for the manager or the head chef to break out a bottle of something if things were slow or one of us workers were having a birthday or something.

Working offshore in the oilfield is a drag, you can't just go home at night ya know. It's kind of like being in jail, but the money is good. Plus we have internet, phones and really good food, Norwegian cooks might i add. Working 12 hour shifts, but mostly sitting around watching people work is relaxing, smoking pot on the helideck after shift is MOST relaxing!!!

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Originally posted by SizzleNeck

but mostly sitting around watching people work is relaxing, smoking pot on the helideck after shift is MOST relaxing!!!

Sometimes when we are slow I can get away with sitting up front by the UPS computer and look at a magazine or read a book. I mean they really cant say anything to me cause I am up front and watching everything

i own a business...i have guys working for me...a bunch of no good lazy ass loafers who hang out on wbw all day

i own my own cellphone store (not saying which company it starts with a c)so i do pretty much as i please oh by the way im working on getting a second store so keep your fingers crossed for me

We often drink beer etc. at work on afternoons.

I work from home 95% of the time. In my pajamas usually. I can do anything I want as long as my work gets done. And everyday is beer day.

I'm a private investor and do what I want, when I want, where I want with whoever I want. At times this finds me quaffing German or Czech beers.

allmost everybody is relaxed at work here in wbw, so work ain´t so hard after all

I, unfortunately, am in the minority here then. i work at a UPS customer service center. I answer Preferred customer emails all day. Although we get 30 min fr lunch to go where we please, if anyone came back with even a hint of alcohol on their breath, they'd be fired. Closest I get to being relaxed is to just sit there and daydream in front of my computer.

that´s hard...... that´s slavery