As employers are encouraged to offer a more flexible approach to working, one British business is giving its workers ‘hangover days’ to stay home when they’ve had one too many the night before.`
Marketing agency The Audit Lab, based in Bolton in the north west of England, employs ten staff including senior digital PR manager Ellie Entwhistle.
“You just use them as and when you need them,” Entwhistle told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview.
“I’ve probably had about five this year, three with work colleagues and two when out with friends.”
Entwhistle, 19, explained that her job requires taking clients out and going to networking events where alcohol is often a part of the evening.
The flexibility of a hangover day means Entwhistle or others don’t have to leave those events prematurely just so they can make it to work on time the next day.
Re: British workers encouraged to get drunk
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 5:35 pm
by mrswdk
Can't wait for the day that taking alcohol finally starts being treated as the public health issue that it is, like smoking or eating fast food, rather than as a funny thing it's okay to try and pressure people into doing.
Re: British workers encouraged to get drunk
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:24 pm
by D3A7H
CC needs to give us the option to get a 24 hour extension for games in case i'm too hungover to play my turns. Except i'm never that hungover.
Re: British workers encouraged to get drunk
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:54 am
by mrswdk
It said there were 3 replies in this thread but when I opened it I can only see 2. Did anyone see what saxitoxin wrote before he deleted it again?
George Burns smoked until he was 99.
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:04 am
by 2dimes
Health issue? How much are you drinking?
Re: George Burns smoked until he was 99.
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:24 am
by mrswdk
2dimes wrote:Health issue? How much are you drinking?
Anything more than a couple of beers a day on a single day is a health issue. If you're tipsy or drunk, you've taken enough alcohol to be harming your body. Doing that with any regularity significantly increases the risk of suffering liver damage or osteoporosis. Plus taking alcohol makes the brain feel hungry and people therefore eat more after taking alcohol than they would if they were sober, so drinkers tend to gain weight and there are various different health conditions that weight gain can cause or exacerbate.
Re: British workers encouraged to get drunk
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:14 am
by tzor
mrswdk wrote:Can't wait for the day that taking alcohol finally starts being treated as the public health issue that it is, like smoking or eating fast food, ...
Yes the ultimate Nanny state; can't have guns or knives, or probably forks even. You can only eat the government approved foods in the government approved sizes with the appropriate utensils. (Probably chopsticks at this point.)
Maybe just finger foods.
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:38 am
by 2dimes
Ok, that sounds better. I thought you were planing probation again.
Re: British workers encouraged to get drunk
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 3:30 pm
by mrswdk
tzor wrote:
mrswdk wrote:Can't wait for the day that taking alcohol finally starts being treated as the public health issue that it is, like smoking or eating fast food, ...
Yes the ultimate Nanny state; can't have guns or knives, or probably forks even. You can only eat the government approved foods in the government approved sizes with the appropriate utensils. (Probably chopsticks at this point.)
tzor's an anarchist.
Re: Maybe just finger foods.
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 3:31 pm
by mrswdk
2dimes wrote:Ok, that sounds better. I thought you were planing probation again.
I believe in all drugs being treated with parity of esteem, but haven't yet made my mind up whether that means banning them all or doing a Portugal and decriminalising them all. I tend to lean towards the latter though.
Re: British workers encouraged to get drunk
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:25 pm
by nietzsche
that's just non-news.
like, a company that offers you free privat flights. then, in the body you read it's because employees are needed in different parts of the world and fast.
or that boxes have empty space inside. yes, because they're made to put things in them.
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:34 pm