I can't believe the Brits are becoming halal.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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I'm not surprised. All my costs are going up and I have to make cutbacks. When a single pint is £5-6.50, that's something I can't justify.
Wetherspoons in my area does £2/pint ales
That's true. And I'm not usually a massive fan of Doombar but it was £1.49 in a spoons (relatively) near me recently, so I couldn't say no.
With the latest ethanol trade deal with the US, I can only imagine there is going to be another big push to eliminate WFH/hybrid working in a lot of businesses.
That's right, us peasants shouldn't be at home with our families and loved ones, we should be working long hours, sitting in traffic or stood waiting for another late train, and then spending what we've earned on drowning our frustrations of the hamster wheel we're on at the end of the day.
I'm really hoping this whole push to get everyone back in to the office is a generational thing from the boomers, and once they're finally retired we can see a new shift in the workplace. But then that is probably being too optimistic.
But muh property holdings!
Eta: how proud Dickens would be, with the global state of things.
With the latest ethanol trade deal with the US, I can only imagine there is going to be another big push to eliminate WFH/hybrid working in a lot of businesses.
why?
Just one possible example would be that Ethanol is used in making beer, wines, and spirits. If pre-pandemic it was found people were socialising after work more than they are now, the consumption of those things would have been greater compared to now. I imagine they will want people socialising more after work to buy more booze to make the most of the imported Ethanol.
I kind of feel like outside of really big cities there transport network isn't good enough to do this. You don't want to drink, then drive but getting the bus or train too or from work is too much of a pain
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.
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
I had a job as a usian at a high street UK retail company that expanded into the US in the 10s. When the UK managers were going over the handbook before opening the store they told us we had an hour unpayed lunch, which blew our American minds. At least in retail you usually get only 30 unpayed minutes for a shift over 6 hours.
Then they apologetically said we could only have two alcoholic drinks on our lunch and management was so confused when we all gasped and cheered.
Many low level retail/office jobs would get you canned for clocking back in from lunch smelling like booze.
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
As a chef in the UK, it was pretty much after every shift till closing in the pub next door.
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
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.
Posting in UK Politics without even cursory knowledge of British culture is wild. Either way, drinking is engrained in British culture.
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.
And it's wild to think after work drinks are somehow an alien thing. It's a thing pretty much everywhere.
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.
I'm a bit surprised this is news - our work dos were always on Thursday. Better to be hung over on company time.
Doesn't help that a pint of supermarket beer in a London pub is upwards of £7.
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
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.
I already spend too much time with work people and I have my own shit to do.
Thursday is bigger in Edinburgh too. Friday is a ghost town in many an office
Eugh, fucking Thursday "mandatory fun time". All I can think about is that I still have to work tomorrow.
It's alright for the C levels and managers who don't really do anything anyway.
As a manager, fuck Thursdays too