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You remind me of a business trip to Italy some 25 years ago, when I visited a factory outside Florence and was shocked to see small bottles of wine served in th
by markbnj 8y ago
You remind me of a business trip to Italy some 25 years ago, when I visited a factory outside Florence and was shocked to see small bottles of wine served in the employee lunchroom for the mid-day meal. I don't know if this practice is still common in Italy or other parts of Europe, but the thing that amazed me was that the plant was industrial, and most of the employees left the lunchroom and went back to operating moving machinery.
- ghaff 8y agoIt used to be much more commonplace in the US to have alcohol at business lunches than it now is. But, even at that time, the company I was working for at the time had very strict rules prohibiting alcohol in an industrial setting--and, indeed, on company property more broadly.