I really think we should get rid of work-related drinking culture altogether. People should not be routinely encouraged to get tipsy or intoxicated around cowo

I really think we should get rid of work-related drinking culture altogether. People should not be routinely encouraged to get tipsy or intoxicated around coworkers that they barely know but will have to interact with subsequently as strangers, as we see happening in company-promoted "events", "parties" and the like. It's not something that promotes 'cooperation' as some might naïvely assume; if anything, it's the very opposite of professionalism and a recipe for severe social conflict. If we're going to pursue "harm reduction" in our alcohol-related culture, let's make the workplace a temperate environment first and foremost.