Doesn’t help that a pint of supermarket beer in a London pub is upwards of £7.
That’s true, but this report specifically excludes London.
Hah. I read inside London. My bad.
Coupled with the image, I read it as”outside after work drinks”.
“Okay. Everyone went inside?”
Lol. I completely understand! It’s been a long week. Almost time for a cuppa here. I think I’ll have it early.
Come out to Zone 4. £2 ales.
Really?
Good ones? And not Timothy Taylor.
Since when are Ale’s “good”? Just drink the bath slop and be thankful
Lots of good ales my dude
I can’t believe the Brits are becoming halal.
I already spend too much time with work people and I have my own shit to do.
I’m a bit surprised this is news - our work dos were always on Thursday. Better to be hung over on company time.
Wait, what’s this? Drinking after work with your colleagues is a regular weekly thing in Britain?
Why would you do that?
I don’t even spend time with my best friend every week.It depends a great deal on where you work, but it’s definitely not unknown. It’s not normally an all-evening heavy-going night though, much as Britain loves a binge drink that’s usually saved for the weekends
It used to be more common. Back in the 90s when I was working in an office we’d often head to the pub for Friday lunchtime and roll in later in the afternoon. Going along for a free lunch and a few beers with visiting sales reps was also pretty common.
I couldn’t do it now - the thought of nursing a proto hangover before I’ve even got home seems insane in retrospect. God knows how much productivity used to be wasted due to work time tipples.
That fits with my personal experience that it tends to be older members of the places I’ve worked at that suggest and/or actually go for it
Posting in UK Politics without even cursory knowledge of British culture is wild. Either way, drinking is engrained in British culture.
I’m not posting, I’m commenting.
And Lemmy is much too small to gatekeep communities.It’s not gatekeeping. It’s having basic respect to at least post with some basic knowledge of what you’re posting on.
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The House of Lords isn’t a political issue? Trying to force people back into the office to keep the rich wealthy isn’t a political issue? Have a word with yourself super hero.
And it’s wild to think after work drinks are somehow an alien thing. It’s a thing pretty much everywhere.
I’m gonna be really pedantic here, but not everywhere.
It’s pretty entertained in USA culture as well. I feel not having any attacks on US soil during the war didn’t lend any need for community building endeavors, whether public health, public transport, or public shelter. It’s easier to instill greed/fear of lack or fear in general, as well as cynicism and distrust of our neighbors the more separate and divided they can make us. Long hours, low wages and laws designed to protect business rather than workers perpetuate and compound the issues.
Personally yeah. I’ll also see my family/ various friends, a couple times a week too. But then I do consider myself an extremely social person.
I’ve worked in jobs where my colleagues are good friends of mine, and other jobs where my colleagues are just colleagues and nothing more.
I’m lucky to currently work with people I genuinely get on very well with. I don’t go out for after work drinks with them (because I have small children and lots to do and no money), but I’d happily wile away an evening in the pub with them when it comes up.
It used to be a major thing, even pub lunches during your shift, go out for a pint and some food at lunch and then go back to work afterwards
My perspective is it used to be a thing but then we all started commuting to get to our jobs so it stopped. Most people working in London don’t drive for their commute so it could continue
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