Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist.

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• compostgoblin@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To be fair, I don’t think being high around my coworkers sounds like a fun time. Drinking a few beers once a year at the Christmas party is more than enough for me

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s a shame, really.

    Back in my restaurant days, hanging out after and getting loose really made everyone work together better.

    Though I can’t see doing this in a business environment - it’s just not the same.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In my restaraunt experience, those parties worked because it was organic. Part of it is that you’re probably working nights and weekends, making it harder to socialize with people outside your industry or similar CS professions. Part of it is overlap in demographic, probably being under 25, in school or recent graduate, from the same town or 2, and have similar incomes, which dictates affordability of activities.

      Moving into a regular office environment means your off-hours are the same as the rest of the working population. All different incomes, ages, kid counts, living locations, etc. At my job, the core department has pretty good overlap and after-hours things are generally organized by department heads. They recognize the cohesion. But sometimes, HR takes a crack at a company-wide gig and it’s awkward. Not drastically, as it’s only about 70 people, but we fall into the preexisting groups, mostly based on department. It’s fine when it’s the Christmas party during normal hours, but it just doesn’t work when it’s a bar after hours.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fuck my bigot coworkers.
      I avoid working with them.

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• TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If alcohol was discovered today, it would be considered as harmful a substance as opium and it would be banned. But humans have been consuming it for thousands of years, so it’s been normalized and grandfathered into society.

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  • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We’ve been doing opium for thousands of years and still deem it harmful enough to ban. Hell, it’s bad enough that it has actually been used as a weapon in the past to destabilize nations.

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  • Tujio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Beer is arguably the foundation of human society. Grain (and the harvesting of it) is a building block of civilization, and beer is inextricably linked to that.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.

    Or in the White House.

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• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Duh. Everyone knows you’re supposed to lie down for a little opium. Talk about a faux pas.

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• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think you can take “coworkers” out of this shower thought. Beer = okay. Opium = not okay.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s a certain inherent nastiness to alchohol. A definite taint that shouts “I am poison” or “this stuff is good for cleaning engine parts”.

    Opium, not so much. More of a warm floral hug.

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    • Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So this is just about you really liking opium rather than anything to do with work colleagues

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But consuming beer is within the parameters of the law inexplicably (in most jurisdictions, as allowed by age).

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Uhm, yeah?

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• TTH4P@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  With respect, it totally depends on the type of work, right?

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ya maybe. But the ubiquity of alcohol suggests that the specific substance bears too.

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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You should have seen some of the work cocaine parties I’ve seen. But granted, I’ve never seen a work-related opium event.

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As opposed to opium parties where casual friends meet and mingle?

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• theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t even like working with my co-workers, I don’t want them to ruin anything else!

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OP has clearly never worked in a kitchen before

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• fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We live in a society

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• bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Listen, sometimes I bang the gong. If you can’t “handle that”, maybe it’s time you find friends that don’t work on the railroad in 1850.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah its like just having a nice little relaxing smoke of crack. I mean its not blue peter.

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  • nfamwap@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, crack is really more-ish

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Getting SOO close to that dragon. You might catch him THIS time!

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